Anime Addiction

ItachiNoKage · Post by **ItachiNoKage** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:34 pm

-When you watch more than 3 hours of anime per day

-When you have more than one DVD rack devoted to anime

-When you listen to J-pop, K-pop, and maybe C-pop

-When you look up lyrics to anime openings and closings

-When you have memorized all or some quotes in anime

-When you have played most or all of the Final Fantasy games.

-Whne you start to draw anime and begin to make your own mangas,at least try to.

-When you put anime as a background of you cell phone, if you can.

-When you have shelves full of Gundam models, or anime figures all over your house

-When you attend anime conventions at every chancec you get

-When you blow all your money on anime

-When you are able to make other people watch anime and like it, inside
joke, some will get it.

-When your whole room is filled with nothing but anime wall scrolls, J-pop posters and other things like that.

-When you download anime from the internet.

-When you look for free manga on the internet.

-When you start to understand what the characters are saying, when you watch it in Japanese

-When you travel half-way across the world in order to buy anime at a cheaper price.

-When you have at least gone to Japan once, just for the sake ofanime...nuf said

-When you have stacks of manga.

-When you start to think in terms of anime

-When you start to create "what if" situations in relation to some anime you have seen before.

-When you have imported an asian PS2, PSone, or PSP, just ot play the Japanese anime games.

-When you start to OD on anime

-When you start to cosplay your favorite anime characters

-When you start to make anime music videos.

If you have at least 5 of these that means you have an addicition to anime, BE PROUD, if I miss anything please feel free to tell me.

Tsunami Jones · Post by **Tsunami Jones** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:40 pm

I have at least 10 of those . . .

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:41 pm

Tsunami Jones wrote:I have at least 10 of those . . .

Ditto....

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:48 pm

I lost count...

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:55 pm

I have about 6 or so of these indicators, but used to have more. This was in the initial obsession/euphoria period before anime/manga/j-games became just something that I did.

I'd take exception to the use of "addiction" and the exhortation to be proud, though I know you meant well. Coming from somebody with an acknowledged addictive personality, addictions aren't something you really want to pick up -- though anime is among the more harmless, with its effect being much more financial than physiomental.

Even so, you don't want to spend all your time obsessing over anime stuffs. If you do, what do you do to make rent, and how do you interact with the people who paid out for the other 99% of the North American video market (as much as anime has grown, it's still fairly niche; these are 2004 figures)?

Fullbore anime obsession is a straight-line road with one destination: a basement lair and no life outside of fandom. Everyone else, though, is able to get over it and do it as a hobby while still having other interests.

And stuff was missed on the original list....there are a bunch of "otaku purity tests" floating around the internet that may provide guidance.

--K

Super Shanko · Post by **Super Shanko** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:16 pm

iv'e got nine symptoms, call the doctor!

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:19 pm

Regained count.... that can't be right....

19?!?

I need another hobby, video games aren't covering it for me.

illuminon · Post by **illuminon** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:25 pm

15.....oh dear god.
uh....define ALL ur money....

Tono_Fyr · Post by **Tono_Fyr** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:51 pm

16, I think the count came to. I'm not as big on the Final Fantasy as I used to be, but I did play most of them. Most of my money goes to anime, I have 3 stacks of manga, several DVD shelves of anime, tend to loop anime movies on my TV on weekdays and on weekends I have a series on usually. Sometimes listen to Jpop, sometimes look up lyrics, memorized some quotes, download from the net (on dial up, so that one could count doubly for me), understand what the characters say, I think in anime, I've always done those situations with everything, but still, I have OD'd once or twice on subs and had english and japanese stream together in my mind, I've made several AMVs, and, finally, I've gotten more than a friend or two into anime.

Tondog38 · Post by **Tondog38** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:19 pm

I fit into four of those categories, however I fit into two of those categories to a much lesser degree.

-When you have memorized all or some quotes in anime
I only know one quote from anime, "See You Space Cowboy." That's it.

-When you put anime as a background of you cell phone, if you can.
I have a Cowboy Bebop background on my cell phone, but right now it's set to the AC/DC logo.

-When you are able to make other people watch anime and like it
I've only made one person like anime.

-When you download anime from the internet.
I do this occasionally, but I don't have any series that I religiously download.

So there you have it.

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