Nice Quote

BUMP OF THE GODS

I fucking love Otaku no Video

>Umeda is a self-confessed otaku, one of Japan’s growing legion of men obsessed with anime, comics, action figures, and videogames. And when Umeda claims otaku status, it’s no idle boast. “Here’s the real evidence,” he says, producing a cer­tificate and ID that confirm his standing as “otaku elite.” He earned this rank by getting a very high score on a rigorous National Unified Otaku Certification Test last summer.

tl;dr: you're small time, OP

>Hey... are we really that depressing?

no
just a clown
i loosen up after a beer or two, i start to say some funny shit i usually repress when being 'organized'

tl;dr
im fuck funny tipsy and not depressive

I smell a casual v. hardcore anime fan thread.

>>42860223
dat passion and drive!
why don't we all live like this?
inb4 pessimism

>>42860223
a glorious piece of Otaku history. should be required watching.

I bet most of /a/ hasn't seen it, because it's too 1) old, 2) gainax, and 3) weeaboo

Living in a fictional world that has nothing to do with real life through the means of videos and magazines is warped and crazy.

Watching Sex and the City and reading the Vogue is not...

>>42860402
agreed, if you consider yourself in any way a fan of anime you MUST watch this.

bonus points for seeing it on vhs with yellow subs like a pro.

Is it odd that I find otaku no video manly?

>>42860459
No way! I bet those subs don't even include the honorifics! If I want shit quality with shit subs, I could just stream it.

Looking back on this, i realize that being a weeaboo required devotion back then! I can't imagine being into anime without the power of the webbernets!

>>42860508
Nigga you best be trollin

yeah, before the internet, nerds actually interacted with other people face to face.

weird, isn't it?

Explanation for the social rejection of anime fans:

1. Anime is usually a solitary hobby
2. It therefore can be done by people with no social skills
3. People with no social skills therefore make up a portion of hobbyists
4. When people with no social skills interact with other people, they represent their hobby
5. People are naturally bad at separating causation from coincidence and correlation
6. Therefore they assume, even subconsciously that traits they noticed in the first anime fans they interacted with apply to them all.

>>42860666
nice satantrips, overlord anon
>>42860676
that's why i fucking hate weeaboos

>>42860703
Are they really the problem? Or is the bigger problem the inability of common people to dissociate one thing from another thing?

I hear this bullshit from people all the time.
"I can't watch that show because it reminds me of a bad boyfriend who loved it"
and similarly,
"I don't like anime because one guy I met was really disgusting and loves anime"

It's something we should account for but that doesn't change the fact that it's fucking stupid and people should kick themselves when they realized they're caught in such a mental trap.

>>42860820
worrying about either of those problems is pointless, there will always be weeaboos making us look bad, and there will always be normalfags stupidly thinking we're all like that.
Feels Bad Man.

Otaku no Video is Legendary Tier

>>42860861
So here's the question.

Do we, the somewhat normal anime fans, try and ignore the weeaboos and correct the misconceptions normalfags have as victims of their own psychology?

Or do we just sheepishly hide away and pretend that we're "normal" (which implies that having taste really changes whether you're normal or not in the first place) and if the subject ever comes up, hold our tongues and let them sound stupid?

>>42861086
while hiding your hobby is stifling, if one truly has a life beyond that it shouldn't be that much of a problem.

When talking to a normalfag and anime comes up i pretend to be a nostalgiafag and only acknowledge stuff that came on when I was a kid and develop it from there depending on their responses.

But yeah, if it comes up, talk about it, if not, then don't, trying to hide it seems wrong, and in my experience nobody ever had a problem with my liking anime.

>mfw this isn't an otaku no video thread

>>42861267
forgot my face

I want Sato's ass