Ways to Tell Your're Obsessed with Anime

  • As soon as money enters your posession, its spent on anime items
  • You've deemed yourself the '... no miko' of your favorite anime character
  • You have mutiple sites devoted to anime
  • You're always online reading fanfics, looking at fanart, wasting time on lists like these...
  • You take up writing fics and drawing fanart
  • And somehow, a character looking and acting EXACTLY like you worms their way into all your fics/art and ends up dating your favorite character
  • Your friends are afraid to speak around you because every word they say reminds you of something about anime
  • The people who run anime conventions cry when they think of the next one...because you'll be there, a month early camping out
  • Music is only good if it's in Japanese and being sung by a seiyuu
  • You boycott TV because they show edited versions of your favorite anime
  • If someone refers to an anime as a 'cartoon' in your presence, all hell breaks loose
  • You need a new hard drive to accomadate all the anime stuff you've downloaded
  • Your parents are so sick of hearing about "[insert fav character's name here] this and [fav character] that", they disown you
  • Your relatives no longer inquire about your love life. Instead, they ask how [fav character] is doing
  • And of course, you smile and launch into a detailed reply on what you two are doing that weekend
  • When even your fellow anime-freaks run from you, you move on to talking to animals about [fav anime character/show]
  • The mail is stopped because you keep sending long-winded letters to the President on how world peace could be resolved if "so and so was alive"
  • Your hair defies the force of gravity and the laws of Nature as you take on your fav character's look
  • Your room is covered in an inch-thick wallpaper of anime posters
  • You start taking a Japanese class to 'better understand the nature of anime'
  • You turn in all your assignments in Japanese and fail school because no one can read Japanese except you
  • Your teachers are used to finding weird drawings up and down the margins of your assignments-when you get bored in class, you draw anime chars
  • Anime is such a part of your daily life, you don't even realize it when you start talking like your fav character is real
  • Actually, its common knowledge you believe that everyone in your fav anime series really exists in a parallel universe and damned if you won't find that universe!
  • ...And somehow, you actually find it
  • No one understands you anymore because words like 'ja ne', '-chan', 'itai', and other Japanese terms are mixed up in your vocabulary
  • When your parents REALLY wanna be mean, they ground you from anime
  • You go and write your own screwed list on how you are obsessed with anime

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