Im doing it for a girl.

Thats why

I tend to drop out and by the sheer force of my friends I get back to the vicious cycle of Anime/Manga.

I...it began when learning how to read with manga....but..but then it was cosplay and I was able to drop it for a short term since I had no one to cosplay or share ideas on presentations, discoveries or even the joy when you accomplished that really really difficult costume you thought it was going to be a waste of time and money...

and then I met my friends.

I read hentai manga with my girlfriend.. And I've cosplayed, that's pretty weaboo right?

I've taken up martial arts as well on the same notion, I've also practiced some Video Game styles and try to apply them to real mechanics. Fun hobby between me and a couple other gamer friends. Fun times, good exercise, and silly bouts to be had~

When I was around 14 and a total narutard, I often let my lids down halfway, to have the same expression as Kakashi.
People must have thought I was totally fucking stoned!

Uh, mine hit hard at about 13? I guess my phase was the worst between ages of 13 and 16. I used to take pokemon toys and plushies with me to school and set them up on my desk.
My last year or two of high school I started to calm down mostly because I was losing interest. Then I got into college and met some Japanese foreign exchange students who pretty much were like, no anime not cool.

So yeah.

"Taekwondo"

I wore a Naruto headband every now and then to keep the hair out of my face but that was it. I saw how stupid my friends looked and acted and wanted no part of their idiocy.

Eh.. I was never really bad save the one time I wore a Naruto headband to school...
But besides that I occasionally say 'nani' in response to silly comments.

I loved anime and couldn't stop talking about it to non anime fans when i was 11. everyone found me quite annoying as you can imagine. i was pretty ugly as well. (braces, short hair, baggy clothes) always said stuff like baka and kawaii in regular conversation. but i entered high school. and i made it my pesonal goal to not be the fugly dork of the class. i got my braces taken out, flat iron out my hair, leaned how to put on makeup, and got style... I stoped watching anime all together... till my boyfriend dumped me and my all normal friends stabbed me in the back... (turns out even without my weeaboo ways i was till annoying and stupid sounding) i was mad depressed, then i quit school and became what we all know a hikikimori. having nothing to do with my 14 hour days i began to watch anime and read manga again... and i fell harder then ever. now here i iz... years later... an obsessed coslayer... obsessed with my beauty and the failz of others... and even more of a weeaboo with less of a life then when i 1st started.

None of my friends went to my high school, so I made new friends within the first week. My friends were weaboos and got me into all kinds of weaboo shit including conventions. I already liked drawing anime-style stuff, so they'd try to convince me to draw yaoi even though I was 13 and had no idea how to draw actual porn. I started getting yellow fever by proxy just by being friends with mostly white chicks who loved asian guys, so we crushed on various asian guys at school. It was pretty embarrassing.

I also used to cosplay to school on the Friday of a convention, even if I had time to change back at home before the con. I did it maybe twice, and would wear some of my less conspicuous costume parts around school. Yeahhhhhh.

I'm halfway through university now and I don't wear anything that would reveal my power level. Although I met some fellow fans during frosh week just by having a few anime pins on my bag, I've stopped doing that sort of thing and generally try to fit in. I still go to anime club though, it's actually well-organized and I've made some good friends there who aren't all socially retarded.

>>2515932
If you're as beautiful as you say you are, lets see a pic!

Most I've ever felt like a weeabo:

End of 6th grade for me (98 or 99), during the last week of school our teacher decided for the week after finals to have people suggest a video or movie a day to watch. I suggested Robot Carnival, as I had it taped off Sci-fi's "Saturday Anime" and thought it was one of the most beautiful things I had seen. (I still do)

My teacher played it, and almost all the kids in my class didn't like it. I remember one kid asking me why I wanted "to show people Looney Toons from japan"

I didn't know what a weeabo was, but that was the most I've ever felt like one. Though on a related note, I am still glad I still have most of the stuff I taped from saturday anime. Roujin Z, Dominion Tank Police, and Project A-ko are as epic now as they were then

>>2515948
Sci-fi's anime days were awesome. I too, have the VHS stuff I recorded off of there. :-D

Actually drugs are more fun too

>>2515946
lol nu way man i seen the harm of self posting all da time. there is no such thing as beauty in /cgl/

>>2515954
I remember they stopped doing it for a while, then one day out of the blue it came back for three days, showing both Galaxy Express 999 movies, and the Urusei Yatsura film Beautiful Dreamer

Best 3 days ever

I thought my boyfriend liked anime, but I found out he never liked it and said he liked it to be closer to me, but he hates it, he likes american comics. I was pretty disappointed and sad, but he's really liking Durarara!! Maybe I can change his mind.

Im also cosplaying as my favorite anime hero because I wanna be the character, and it was my childhood hero for so many years. But im going to be embarrassed wearing it at a con for the first time this year.

I wore a crappy "lolita" headdress to school (+ normal clothes), it looked like a maxipad with plastic lace
When somebody asked why I was wearing this thing I would reply something like 'I'm a low-lee-tah, that's a fashion from hairajooku, DUH'
And to think I was one of the nicer "italolis" of my area...

Thanks to the Street Fighter movie, It's been my life goal to be able to lift a coach over my head like Chun-Li and smash someone with it through a wall. True facts, shit would be so fucking awesome.

As for anything embarrassing; I never took on any Japanese mannerisms that most weaboos do. Hell, I'm 21 and now can use chopsticks and didn't have good sushi until I was 19. Worst thing I did was wear cosplay at school for Spirit week on "Super Hero Day."

In High School I was obsessed with Sailor Moon, watched it on USA then CN. I would draw super crappy drawings of her all over my note book and notes. I even did my hair like her during the summer (never to school) while wearing my sailor moon tank top. Then when DBZ came out on CN then I made a lot of friends and we would trade DBZ drawings.

I hid my obsession from my non anime friends. They only saw the drawings on my notebooks and the occasional tshirt. They would wonder why I was friends with those 'weirdos' by the end of high school they figured it out but since I didn't bother them with it they didn't care. I only bothered my other anime friends with my anime love.

>>2515962
>>2515948
you, sir, have some great taste

Used to wear my Naruto headband in class, put Inuyasha plushies in my locker and put printouts as well.

There.

I am an almost unabashed weeaboo. I would never want to live in japan, and I have no real desire to learn Japanese other than to be able to communicate with my boyfriend's mom, but I think I can best explain my power level through a list of pet names that my pets have had over the years.
Usagi(he was a rabbit, I R SO CLEVAR)
Tuxedo Mask (hurdur a tuxedo cat)
Minmay
Kuro Neko Sama (I was 12.)
Mama Dora (a pregnant cat we picked up off the street)
Chibi (a small dog)
and more, I can't think of them all. I had many gerbils as a kid, more than half of them were named after things like sailor moon and stuff.

I make mild attempts to hide my weeabooness, but tonight I am hitting up an anime club dinner at a Chinese restaurant. All I can say in my defense is that it is not MY anime club, just another one in town. I plan to wear our local con's t-shirt.

I bought a Naruto headband. Nuff' said.

have cosplayed L, worn a Naruto headband to school (back when I still liked it), hummed themesongs to anime at school, I have only 500 anime songs on my iPod, I still cosplay, I collect only the original raw manga, I own Pokemon Heartgold and play it, I'm trying to learn Japanese and would like to go to Japan (not to be a mangaka or something. That's just silly.), I rage whenever my history teacher doesn't pronounce a Japanese name right, and I own a naruto headband still only because I can't seem to get rid of it.

...ohgodishouldbeshot.

I bought a Naruto Headband, when I was in middle school, the official ones :c. Oh and I listen to music from anime's from time to time, and I do listen to vocaloid music.

>>2516310
Oh gawd I am learning Japanese to go to Japan also, I dont want to work in animation or be a mangaka I want to go there for the fashion sene, I should also be shot

When I was in middle we had to set up usernames for a website. Everyone was using ridiculous names so I decided to put mine as SoraxRiku. Our teacher stopped the whole class and said, "Who the HELL is SoraxRiku?" I had to tell him in front of the class in shame. Everyone laughed at me. I think this was the moment that made me turn my power levels down big time.

>>2516310
I have a shit load of japanese songs on my mp3 (Its a cowon s9, made in korea). I can't help it, I love the language.

I was a complete weeaboo in 5th-6th grade with a friend. I think we were gay for One Piece, but we brought all this pirate shit to school and rp'ed wtih classmates, even though they didn't know it haha.

I stopped watching anime in 7th grade because I went to a HXC INDIE RAWK KTHXBAI phase, then got into it again in 8th grade. I've cosplayed ever since, now I'm internet-stalking 4 cosplayers that I'm currently in love with.

>>2515890
Cool story bro. Don't care.

I've never really been much of a Weeaboo. Trust me I've had more then enough chances to turn into on since I've been watching anime since I was 8. It wasn't until I got into middle school that I really understood the whole scope of anime and manga. Even then I didn't really start running around acting like a complete retard saying random Japanese words because I didn't really think much of it.

It wasn't until high school till I had any weeaboo moments which I won't go over because I posted mines already in the other thread. I will mention that I did carry a manga with me during middle and high school. I never read it during class only on the bus because I was actually pretty serious during class. Reading my manga on the bus was good way to relax on the way home.

I'm starting to ramble so I'm stop typing. :D

I pretty much kept my weeabooness to myself and close friends. The worst is when I was about 12 or 13 and made a shitty Geocities website about Sailor Moon and other crap. I liked to show it off to my friends and family... ugh. It was filled with KAWAII DESU NEEEEE and ^___^ ^3^ ^_^ ^_________^

...There was also a shrine in which I proclaimed a certain character that I was obsessed with as "MINE AND NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE HIM. BWAHAHAHAA"

Also had some SUPERAWESOME fanfiction I wrote based on Tenchi Muyo with a SUGOIEVIL Mary Sue, back when I didn't know what a Sue was.

Dark days, my friend, dark pitiful days.

When I was in grade school I drew Sailor Moon characters all the time, because I fucking loved drawing Jupiter's legs and tits. I didn't realize it was Japanese at the time.

Then one day by chance I rented the Guyver anime from the local video store, and I was hooked. The blood and gore, the action, the totally badass music, the art, I loved it all. All the other anime I rented was the same 80s OVA type stuff and I fucking weabood out on it, eventually getting into DBZ and finding a store called Florida Oriental Trading that provided me with all the DBZ bootleg VHS and Gundam models a kid could ever want

But sadly, anime after that has vastly disappointed me, and I don't care for any of the newer stuff. Thus, I am still a pretty hardcore weaboo for the old 80s and early 90s shows.

Macross Plus made me attempt to become a fighter pilot in either the Air Force or the Navy, but my vision problems prevented that.

I was a yaoi fangirl and I convinced my boyfriend to fuck his neighboor. He threw up during and it was hilarious.

I was in my weeaboo stages when I was in the middle of middle school. I used to believe that when I grow up, it mattered not what job I would get as long as I would be able to buy manga, and watch anime. During the day I would wear naruto arm warmers and once in a the headband and put fma, fruit basket and gaara patches on my backpack. Thanks to my weeaboo years, I now own over 1500 dollars worth of manga, some Inuyasha, One Piece,Bleach, Hellsing, FMA, Fruits Basket Naruto DBZ and some other really shitty titles that completely regret wasting my money on. I listened to Naruto openings and endings so many times that I used to be able to name the artist, title and when it was used. Spoke in wapanese but that got stupid fast even for me. Had anime affliated accounts in Neopets, Gaia ,Maple story, deviantart, and finally ffnet, in this order. Brought at least 4 manga volumes each day, one time even brought 8 volumes of Dragonball to read on school bus. Went to AX back when Clamp and they had that free exhibit hall for a costume,hence the crappy pikachu gijinka. For art, I'd draw anime faces and teachers would praise me for it (wtf!), so that encouraged me. I knew how socially awkward, I was so I would call myself a loner and emo. Saw first yaoi at AX artist alley, NarutoxSasuke, Dad was there... cue awkward music.. after that got interested in art, comics and fanfics but at least I had enough sense to realize that that isn't sometime to shout out to the world. By the end of middle school I had read the whole entire public library's manga section and more.
Continued

>>2517227
Anyways I could go on but shouldn't, I'm just glad those years are over. Looking back I'm just filled with disgust and shame at how I used to act.
I guess the moment where I realized how I'd act is just wrong is when I met another weeaboo. She did the same thing as me but on another level. She came in decked out with t-shirts, never washed her hair, (oh btw I only washed my hair once a week but then again it was because I didn't like to use up the shampoo and condition) and just had this aura that screamed awkward. We would rp fights that bruise, and chase eachothers like retars.
One day, during a free PE period, a group of girls came up to us when we were sitting on the field talking. They wanted to watch us playfight and hurt each other. I didn't want to do it because I knew that was what they wanted but the thing was the other girl knew it too and being the attention whore she was... when I didn't do anything no matter how hard she "poked" me.. she then punched my stomach kicked me in the head hard and I mean hard. I ran the hell out of there. I didn't cry because I knew that was what the sadistic bitches wanted and plus I figured I had to save the remaining shreds of whatever dignity I had. There was like a half a school year left in middle school for me, so I decided once I got to high school I would try to calm down the stupid shit I was doing. The weeaboo moments finally stopped when I got to the end of my 9th grade year. I was never happier, still into anime and shit obliviously , but now I at least have a somewhat normal social life.

Now I'm in college, but I don't mind reading manga in public, I continue to cosplay and starting to get in to lolita. At least I don't have to deal with stupid asswhores who kick my head.

It started when I was in second grade and this stupid girl got me hooked on Inuyasha. I didn't learn about the magic of watching anime in original Japanese until sometime in about 4th grade. Around 5th grade, I used "baka" and "kawaii" all over the damn place with my cousin, it was horrible. I even wore my Naruto headband ( despite that I honestly wasn't even into the series ) around school. I got made fun of once, and cried. In the beginning of middle school, my aunt hired a private tutor for my cousin and I so we could learn Japanese. Lessons went pretty well, our teacher was really awesome. ( At first it was so I could watch raw anime without subs. Eventually, I just wanted to continue on with the lessons purely because I was fascinated with Japanese culture ).

I realized in middle school, due to the lack of Asians, to adapt to what the other people liked.

I'm in high school now, and I'm pretty much a regular teen. I do go out to gatherings often on the weekends, just to meet people and hang out.

I just go on this board because you guys are entertaining sometimes and some costumes are just plain simple awesome.
I have to say that your dedication is only second to /fit/s.

I never got to the really horrible creepy stage. In fact, I had grown out of that behavior by the time I got into anime fo srs. As a kid my favorite shows were all dubbed anime, and I learned how to read through reading translated Sailor Moon manga.

Then I discovered Star Trek and DC comics, and I spent the really creepy fangirl years of my life obsessing over those. That was when I was 11, 12, and a little bit when I was 13. Then I discovered Kingdom Hearts, then Naruto, then I moved on to Bleach, forayed into a few grimdark vampire anime, stayed with D.Gray-man up until its most recent stuff and I'm slowly getting sucked back into Bleach.

Yeah, the worst I ever did, weaboo-wise, was wear a Naruto headband or two to school. I used to have extremely long hair, and it was all one length, so I needed something to keep the hair out of my eyes. I used them as hairbands, kinda like how Sakura would wear them, and since I was so damn tall the only time anyone ever saw what they were was when I was sitting down. Even then the only people that knew what the hell they were were the Korean exchange kids.

Yeah, I was a creepy retarded Westaboo, not a creepy Weaboo. In fact, I was like a 12-year-old female version of Comic Book Guy at my worst.

Ahhh.
6th/7th grades were the peak of my weeabooness. I was a self proclaimed Otaku, and when people who knew what it meant tried to tell me I wasn't, I got depressed and took quizzes on Quizilla to prove my Otakudom to them.
I wore a ribbon with a bell on it around school, because I was a kawaii kitty chan desu.
I too had a Sailormoon geocities website, dedicated to Sailor Star Fighter.
During typing class I'd go on Gendou and listen to shitty OPs and feel sooo cool~. I drew an emo manga about girls with black eyes.

However, the one moment that I can't look back on without blushing occurred during English class in 7th grade. We were having cultural week, and one of my classmates played Feliz Navidad on a guitar and sang along. To one up her, I decided to sing my current favorite anime song to the class. My teacher okayed the idea, but the next class, she forgot about it, so I had to remind her. She seemed dubious, but said I could. The song was Natsu no E from the Rurouni Kenshin character soundtracks, so it was a duet that started off with Kenshin singing. I said I needed a volunteer to sing with me, so once I managed to convince a guy to come up, I immediatly said, "Nevermind, you don't know the tune! I'll do it myself!' and proceeded to sing. UGH. I don't know how I managed to get the courage to do that bullshit.
In the same class I also brought in my Sailormoon Christmas CD and Anderson Douwa Ningyo Hime (The Anime version of The Little Mermaid). My poor classmates.

>>2517680
>naruto
>5th grade

underage B&

Luckily for me my weeaboo phase was 1st-5th grade, so no one really remembered it by the time I hit 7th grade.

I was OBSESSED with Sailor Moon, Tenchi and Gundam Wing. I wanted to be Sailor Moon when I grew up and wrote many papers in school on anime and Japan. I also covered everything I owned in anime, tried to dress and decorate my room after Sailor Moon. I wanted Sailor Moon on everything I owned. I wouldn't even consider buying anything unless it was anime related.
I babbled on to EVERYONE about anime, all my classmates hated me for it. I got made fun of even by pretty much everyone, even my 5th grade teacher.

By the time I hit middle school I had no friends and was the most shy, embarrassed, awkward thing you've probably ever seen. I decided to hide my weeaboo-ness so people would make fun of me less, I even hid it from my family. Then I forgot about anime more or less for a while and went into a Hot Topic/emo phase when that started getting cool in like 7th grade.

I wish I could burn every Manga volume I have bought, but then I look at it and remember how much money the damn things cost.

I never go to the Manga section at boarders anymore either

Lemmeseeee.
I had always loved sailor moon and DBZ. I'm a youngin, so as a child I had always aspired to be sailor moon.

I started watching InuYasha when it first came on Cartoon network in like the 4th grade. We had a project that year in history to do a little presentation on a country... I chose japan. most of it ended up being on kimono. I purchased a yukata made from a little japanese lady (long story) that was pretty, and then got a cheap pretied obi and a pair of men's geta and wore it to school that day. Also learned about manga. would read it nonstop.

Moved to a new middle school. Middle school is the shittiest time of any person's life. First day I was at a table all alone, and a girl sat across from me quietly. About halfway through that lunch I realized she was wearing a sweatshirt with sesshomaru on it. We because best friends. First anime con I ever went to I had read online how 'anime cons' work, so I would 'glomp' people, fullspeed jumping on them. Only people I know. Wasn't a big fan of using japanese words, because I was afraid of mispronouncing them. Taught myself how to sew by making a kimono... wore that around for a while before it turned up missing. Never to school though. Never watched Naruto, wasn't into it. Read some manga in school. Own a LOT of Inuyasha manga/DVDs. Went to a small anime gathering once and kept repeating "Nani" though I had no idea what it meant.

yeah, that's about it.

>>2517782

Oh wait, yeah. One embarassing thing.

7th grade art class, I was bored, so I started singing. I want to say it was just softly to myself, or someone had brought up something, or some such. So I ended up singing the one japanese song/only japanese stuff I know. The Hokey pokey.

A kid in the class heard me, called me a nazi, and threw a pencil case at me, that hit me in the head. The teacher agreed, and I went on to try and convince the kid to little avail that the japanese weren't nazis, that was the germans. he kept telling me "THEY'RE THE SAME THING."

I used to call my brother "baka" and other weeaboo "curse words" when we fought. One time I was doing it just to be an annoying little shit in front of my great aunt. She got really upset and left. Found out later she'd been to Japan... knew what I was trying to say. GO ME. Just one of many stories. did the whole ita-loli thing, thought I was super-special. Oh, nostalgia.

At cons, I used to run around and act like an obnoxious little coffee goth. Invader Zim was OMFG SO RANDUMB AND AWESOME.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuu

"Galaxy Express"

"Lady Oscar"

and then, finally... "Sailor Moon" (3rd or 4th grade)

It really hit me. All day i would be sitting in my room and drawing, watching anime (even getting up at 6 o clock on Saturday to watch "Tonde Buurin" and later "Wedding Peach" on a turkish channel (didn't understand a word but that didn't matter at all)
At that point I didn't know the word "anime", but watched nothing else.

Staying up all night even if next day was school because on some strange cultural channel there was "Macross" or "Record of Lodoss War"... haha, even forced myself to watch "La Blue Girl" and hentai Stuff like that, also I was a 13 year old most innocent girl
(ah, glorious days)

In 8th grade (of course I didn't have friends or other people that understood just a little bit of my obsession) I finally met my first otaku comrade... and she hat a computer with internet at home (i did not)

well... what more should i say? Now I'm 25, share a flat with two other otaku, work as media designer and illustrator to earn a living. Otaku and Weeaboo-ness fills my life and I'm a happy with it.

Live started hard for me as born weeaboo, as for all of you, folks. But it made us stronger, didn't it? And now we're glad to have found the right friends that understand and share our hobby.
Deep inside, we're all the same. Otaku and Weeaboo of the world unite! Haha... ... orz

It uh started when I was about 13 or 14? I found a volume of shonen jump in a goodwill. Fell in love and was actively buying that stuff for at least a year. I watched dubbed anime every day and never stopped thinking about going to glorious nihon,

During Middle School and Early High School I replaced any and all friends with manga and comics. And joined the school's anime club. Was extremely weeaboo till I was about 16. Kind of had this moment of disgust in myself. Started working out, picking up more hobbies, making friends and hiding my powerlevel. Currently I will openly talk to anyone about anime, comics, games etc without care for powerlevels.

I'd like to say I took karate because it was LOLNIPPONSPORT, also my dad was a huge weeaboo. He had all these 70's and 80's ninja/martial arts magazines. He travelled to Japan multiple times to study Judo and started teaching it. He was also the one who started my cosplaying with making/buying robot and klingon costumes when I was 7 till around 10 for halloween. He still thinks it's kind of cool.

Anime I watched when I was 8:

Vampire Hunter D
Sailor Moon
Samurai Pizza Cats

9:

Iria Zeiram: The Animation (Oh god yes)
Dragonball Z
Tenchi in Tokyo
Battle Arena Toshinden

10:

Robotech
Gundam Wing
Moar Deebeezee

11:

Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture
Galaxy Express 999
Pokemon
Digimon
Flint the Time Detective

Age 12 & 13:

Rurouni Kenshin
Outlaw Star

Age 14:

G Gundam
Mobile Suit: Gundam
Gundam Seed
Zoids Slash Zero
8th MS Team
0080: War in the Pocket
0083: Stardust Memory
Zeta Gundam
ZZ Gundam
Char's Counterattack
Cowboy Bebop
Inuyasha
Big O
Tenchi Muyo
Dragon Ball

After that its just been downfucking hill. D:

When I was 12, I fell in love with Ash Ketchum from Pokemon. I was serious about that.
I am a fagina btw

played the Dragonball Z card game from Score
bought anime statues and wall scrolls

I've managed to sell most of the statues and pretty much gave the scrolls to my friend's little brother.

>>2518059
>Iria Zeiram: The Animation (Oh god yes)

Sci Fi channel? One of my first series and it made me cry so friggen hard.... I was about the same age.

>>2517781
I'm so glad I just read the books at the store and put them back. All I bought was overpriced yummy hot chocolate

Outside of pokemon card tourneys, watching stuff with a club, and owning a few series/model kits, I've never done anything tremendously weeaboo.

The only annoying thing is that after wiking things from shows I didn't get, I amassed a decent knowledge of Japanese economics, corporate structuring, legal system, etc. So, when discussing and of those fields, I have a habit of doing the old weeaboo standby: "Well, in Japan, they..."

I've never been a major weeaboo really, at least I never bothered those who didn't care with it. Still don't.

That aside, my weeaboo phase started when I was about 12 or 13. What I have done in that period that could be considered weeaboo:

-Drew in manga style all the time
-Tried to start actual manga-style comics with a friend of mine, as well as something in Flash
-Had an entire anime premise in my head at one point which was really shitty

Truth be told though, I didn't actually watch much anime. Weird, I know.

i've done a few weeaboo things, but compared to all these stories by anon, i think my weeaboo phase was much less extreme than others. i read manga/look at cosplay from time to time, but nothing excessive.