Otaku Worry

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This is incredibly difficult to write because the problem here is so embarrassing on several levels. Some of you here may even know of it by now. Basically, when I was really young, I liked anime and manga. Though technically this refers, in Japanese, to any animation, I am using it here to mean Japanese animation. Then as I started to get into middle school and high school, the school bullies were very very devout fans. Of course, this turned me off to it. About five or six months ago, a friend of mine reintroduced me to it, and I got over the whole thing and at first I really started to enjoy it all over again. Then I started to have this very intense worry about two concepts. First, that I was somehow unfair before his reintroduction. Second, that I am now obsessed over it and somehow an 'otaku.' Am I right in believing either of these, or is it just my usual phobic delusions? Thank you all so much in advance. I hope I do not seem to be too much of a freak.

I remember at school, some twats in my class really liked this band "Enter Shikari" and I thought "pfft, twats like that band, I'm GLaD I'm nothing like them." which sorta put me off that band. Although nowadays, Enter Shikari are one of my favourite bands. Perhaps it unfair to judge like this, I'm not entirely sure. At least you know you're not the only one who's like that

Do you mean I can at least be forgiven then?

erm... YES!

Heh, sorry to be so questioning over it.

There's nothing wrong with liking something you used to be turned off by in the past.
It's normal. It's what makes us human.

Its not annoying to others?

Even if it bothered others, the point is to make -you- happy. I love manga/anime, and I've got a few years on you if I'm not mistaken. *grin*


M.

I get what you mean, but these bullies were very very devoted anime fans. I guess I did not give it that much thought at the time, but when one is getting bullied I suppose, one does not grant a great deal of time towards the thoughts of the estrangements of their bullies. Forgive me, I do not mean that to sound rude at all. I know what you are saying though about so called 'adult' shows. Is there anything else I should explain?

Thank you, makuranososhi, for that

I like anime. It's really cute.

On a side note, I don't really hate people for being freaks.

Are you saying that I am a freak? =P

I take it, then, from what you have written, that I should not feel so embarrassed?

I didn't say you were a freak.

Though I've been called one before, and it seems to ring in my mind almost every morning before work. But why should it? It's just a word -- why should it bother me so much? I don't understand.