Misconceptions about anime fans

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All the other anime fans I've met are either obese, hyperactive fangirls or goths. Then again, I haven't actually been around that many anime fans, because there aren't many where I live.

I'll admit that I love yaoi. Even worse, most of my ships are crossovers and I'm a huge fan of mpreg (whether yaoi-induced or otherwise). I also tend to imagine and draw myself interacting with my favorite characters.

BUT. I don't go around shoving it in other peoples' faces, either on the Internet or in public. Most of my fangirlish nonsense is carried out within my sketchbooks and in my own head, and at the very most, around my mom or my brother.

And that's what sets me apart from a great number of other fans: the common sense to not go around acting like a 5 year old. I just wish that other fans took their hobby seriously and had some self-respect.

Well, some yaoi fangirls I know are cool, but aren't available
I sometimes give them ideas for stories

I'm a part-time Yaoi/Yuri fan and over-six-year-old pokemon fan (although only first gen stuff, ranger and crystal. >>) And cosplayer. XD

I don't see why there's anything wrong with it unless you're shoving it in someone's face. Gravitation and Loveless are two of the best anime/manga out there (although, dear god, the megamixes for Gravitation scare me).

Utena is probably the best yuri out there. I've written bisexual yuri relationships into my stories before.

Yuri is wonderful. There's just something really sweet about two girls being in love... *dreamy sigh*

Great, now I'm going to be on a yuri-drawing kick for the rest of the day!

Horrah, Yuri support! ^____^

Utena? What's that? I like the girls out of Loveless best of all, they're adorable.

And good luck with that drawing kick, IdahoRose!

Thank you. Maybe, if you all want, I can show you some of my work when I'm done.

Utena is a really old one, but it has a few psychological themes going through, one is the issue of the main character's masculinity and the fact that she is meant to marry the damsel in distress after rescuing her.

Thank you for this informative thread. I will certainly watch it because I want to know what the hubbub is about.

I asked my friends mom what the deal was with stargate and she loaned me all of them up to the first year without the Mc Guyver guy in it. Turned my brain to slush for a while.

Next i'll have to find a anime fan willing to loan.

i am an anime fan

i do not like hentai i think it is disturbing and wrong.
I am not a fan of yaoi or yuri. I don't fantisise about characters being involved in yaoi or yuri type scenes
i am not a hikkamori(someone who is shut in their room 24/7) (i do go out and i have a job and stuff)
i am not a naturtard that takes things too far.

thats my little rave about misconceptions of anime fans.
anyway does anyone know a narutard? someone that is ultra obsessive about naruto? someone that thinks they can pass an exam by not doing it? some one who eats nothing but ramen 24-7? someone who says believe it! a lot.?

narutard, haven't heard that one. But I like it!
certainly fits them, I hate everything about Naruto. Its the Dragonball Z of the new generation.
I liked the original Dragonball though.

A list of stereotypes of anime fans (some of which contradict others, some of which are gender specific, and some of which apply more to stereotypes of anime fans in "western" countries rather than Japan, or vice versa)

-Socially isolated
-Obsessive
-Overweight
-Porn addicts
-Immature
-Incapable of making themselves liked
-Creepy in a "reason-your-parents-told-you-not-to-talk to strangers" kind of way (Usually a stereotype specific to male anime fans)
-Hyper (Usually more specific to female anime fans)
-Girly (As with "Hyper")
-Unsuccessful with preferred gender
-Conformist (Since it seems to be a growing trend among secondary school students in the United States)
-Try too hard to be cool and fail miserably


And for some reason my mother, who used to teach middle school English classes half-full of female anime fans, seems to be under the misapprehension that anime is specifically a "guy thing"

narutard is a term that i have heard used quite a bit, anyway i have heard someone describe naruto as dragonball z with ninjas.

I'm an anime fan.
(watched it obsessively when I was 15 but then stopped for 3 years (I'm now 18)

I do not have anything against hentai. First I think that drawn girls are always more beutiful than real girls. The same is with boys actually. For me it's less disturbing than real porn. I don't watch neither of those to much (maybe watched like 5 henais in my whole life) (and one porno with friends "for kicks))

I really don't like hentais which have incest in them. I really don't even understand the psychology behind their popularity. Some people qoute Freud on "displaying love for each other", but if Freud said that it has to be one of his theories I don't agree with.


I like a certain type of anime. I like boogiepop phantom, paprika, FLCL, excel saga etc. And that's because they're at least original. I'm bored from watching the same story over and over again. I want something new, something with symbolisim. Something similar to mulholand drive.
(My favorite non anime movie)


I do not brag about liking anime, in fact most of my aquaintances don't know I'm into it.

Since I live in a place where anime is not popular one misconception might be that anime fans always have to be obsessed with it, and another that if you like one anime you have to also like naruto, dragon ball and the rest.

I agree with all of the above.

Oh yeah, as for "Narutards"... I used to be one back in junior high. Thankfully, I found a small group of boys who were also Narutards and we all became friends. So in a way I'm thankful that Naruto gave me a brief, but pleasant period of interaction with people my age. And even though I'm no longer obsessed with Naruto, I still like some of the characters.

Dude!
Hentai has all the tentacle stuff, that's creepier than real porn, I'm not saying real porn isn't creepy though.
I'd have to say, the only real long-running anime series I like currently is Bleach. I got tired of Inuyasha after this one filler episode. After that, I said it doesn't look like the plot is going anywhere.
As for my name, I just think the name sounds cool, and it has memories with it