I've been watching anime for a minute, so I know like real weird deep anime that people probably don't care about.
I go through phases when I'm super into my anime stuff.
I love 'Pop Team Epic,' which is really trippy.
I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.
I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon Kinkreet,' the more breakthrough works, and 'Akira,' to me, is the daddy of them all.
Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!
I grew up on anime and manga. That's part of who I am.
To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.
Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan.
I am a geek. I am an otaku.
You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.
