Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Stop calling yourself Otaku!

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EDIT: Read this, and you will know what kind of idiot/attention whore I was when I wrote this! Enjoy! I hate myself for writing this! That means you, you, you and you! Stop it! Right Now! You’re a disgrace to all anime fans! You think you’re an Otaku? You think you’re better then the avarage anime fan, just because you call yourself Otaku? You think being an Otaku is about having all the merchandise, DVD’s, Manga and posters of your favourite show? You think you’re cool because you’re an Otaku? You’re not. You’re sad. I can’t stand people who think they’re ‘Otaku’ By people I mean the kids who’ve just seen their first Anime and claim to know everything about it. It’s usually worse when that first Anime is something along the lines of Pokémon, Dragonball Z, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh and that kind of shows. Otaku can also be discribed as ‘nerd’ because Otaku are thought to be fat people who live in their basements and can’t get a girl/boyfriend and have great knowledge in the field of Anime. You’re proud to call yourself this? But now I can hear all you little Otaku whine: “But that’s not what’s being an Otaku about!” Here’s what I have to say: You don’t know what you’re talking about! I invite the first person who calls himself Otaku to explain me the meaning of being Otaku. Don’t come with something like: “It’s about being true to your favourite series, collecting everything that revolves around it and adorise it as much as you can.” Cause then I’ll say: We already have a word for that: sick, obsessive fandom. Don’t you people see that companies are making millions by sucking you dry, just because you want everything that has to do with your favourite serie? I bet it wouldn’t matter what they’d sell, you’d but it anyway because otherwise you won’t be a true Otaku. I could make millions! I’d make a crappy serie with all stupid, stereotype, but very likeable characters and when I’ve spawned enough Otaku, I’d milk them dry selling them paperclips with their favourite characters on it, and more of those things. You know, you don’t have to buy every product, or like every single thing from your favourite serie to show that you like it. When someone has a collection of 10.000 action figures, 250 poster, all the boxed sets and more, I’ll just say: I don’t care, cause I really don’t! Nobody cares what you have, and nobody likes an arrogant fool who brags about his prized collection all the time. Just get the picture already! Just be a normal anime fan, then you’ll even save money for doing things you’ve never dreamt of: going out.