#Please. If there is some kind of Japanese cultural festival and anime is not explicitly mentioned please do not cosplay to it.

[delta-chan]

I swear, people are out there acting like anime is integral to Japanese culture. It sure as hell is NOT my dude, and even the Japanese see most of it in a fairly poor light. There are anime you can mention to people and not have them weirded out by--stuff like Fist of the North Star, Sailor Moon, Anpanman or Gundam, really famous things like that--but as soon as you come out with “Oh yeah, I love that show, My Little Sister and Her Busty Friends Just Have no Shame!” or whatever people are gonna hold you at more than an arm’s length. Anything that airs at good ol’ otaku-o-clock you’re definitely not gonna want to mention. This is something every single one of my Japanese teachers have given their classes a good talking-to about, and something exchange students have pointed out since loads of them didn’t even watch anime, and if they did it was very little.

Me? I’m so fed up with fanservice and grossness in general that I rarely even peep fiction anymore. I’m all about documentaries now. I just learned a fuckload about Stephen Hawking, I’ll probably forget all about it tomorrow because my memory is total bullshit but it was rad and I didn’t even need to see anyone’s naked butt in the process. I even saw a show earlier about a dude who stuffs dead animals for a museum and how he likes udon for lunch. Earth really is full of things