You’re an Otaku If…
1.) You refer to your old beat-up 1982 Datsun as “my mobile suit”. -Mike Toole
2.) You consider a career in devil hunting. -Kellie Smith
3.) If you cry out the name of an anime character while in the middle of making
love, you might be a redneck (oops) … otaku! -Jei Harvey
4.) You find nothing unusual about the idea of three sword-slinging female
high-school students saving the universe with the aid of a giant, obnoxious bunny. -Mike Toole
5.) You have a serious discussion with another man at an anime club meeting
about the difficulties of reproducing Sailor Moon Eternal’s puffy shoulder pads on a costume. -David A. Brown
6.) You have been known to pour hot water on pigs, cats, and ducks, just to see what
will happen. -Mike Toole
7.) You name your children, car, pets, computer, or other objects after anime
characters…and defend your decision… “Oh come on! What do you mean my cel phone
doesn’t look like Lum! It’s got stripes!” -Cristoff Westimer
8.) You come to Animecca and don’t leave…for a few years. -Eviluser
9.) You begin to sing the theme songs in Japanese even though you don’t know
Japanese. -Alex Woo
10.) PSYCHIC WAVE! -Dan Thomas
11.) You try to meteo smash your little brother. -ESUNICO
12.) When you start thinking in Japanese but with English
subtitles..heheAHAAHAHAHA.. -YuGaTA
13.) When you name your babies Chibi-sumptin. -YuGaTA
14.) When you turn down a college cause they ain’t got a decent anime
club. -YuGaTA
15.) When you start taking Japanese…I am planning to..hehe -YuGaTA
16.) When your teacher starts calling you Sangokuu. -YuGaTA
17.) When your parents starts calling you Sangokuu. -YuGaTA
18.) When you are in college to study how to pilot Bio-Mechs. -YuGaTA
19.) When your girlfriend starts calling you Darien. -YuGaTA
20.) When your dream girl looks like Belldandy. -YuGaTA
21.) When you look up the Merciful and Helpful Goddess Office hotline in
da phonebook. -YuGaTA
22.) When you feel a little bit more powerful after screaming your head
off. -YuGaTA
23.) If you start daydreaming that your girlfriend or boyfriend is an anime
character. -Marella
24.) If you believe that your girlfriend or boyfriend will be an anime
character! -Marella
25.) You start wearing sailor moon underwear -Marella
26.) You try to put your hair up like usagi and you tell people it’s the new
hair style. -Marella
27.) You start trying to form energy balls and try to do the dragon slave…or
some other spell or energy attack -Marella
28.) If you throw you cat or rabbit into the air hoping it will become a
spaceship! -Jon
29.) If you try to feed your cat carrots! -Jon
30.) If you pick up a sword and start yelling “LIGHT COME FORTH!” -Jon
31.) If you grow rrrreeeeeaaaalllllyyyy long hair and wear huge
shoulderpads. -Jon
32.) You and a friend have an endless dicussion about valkyrie
transformation and how impossible it is by watching Macross Plus scenes
in slow-motion. -Barry
33.) You see yourself in Otaku no Video. -Barry
34.) You start sweating really BIG tear drops. -Barry
35.) You go to arcades reciting all the Street Fighter and King of
Fighter characters lines while playing. -Barry
36.) You go to chinatown to look for any anime paraphenelia and buy it…
because your an…. OTAKU!!!! -Barry
37.) If you stop in the middle of a test and start yelling: “I am Hiashi
Mishiba head of the Mishiba-seibatzu HaHaHa(paranoic laughs).” -rserna
38.) Every time you get a headache you hear “AKIRA!” -Evil-Greedo
39.) You sing along with the kids in the beginning/end of sailormoon. -Evil-Greedo
40.) You can’t get the Voltron music out of your head, and hum it
uncontrolably. -Evil-Greedo
41.) You’ve seen one anime over 100 times. -Evil-Greedo
42.) When you start styling your hair like the Vegeta. -YuGaTA
43.) When you know what NIPPON ANIME means. -YuGaTA
44.) When you notice your life’s soundtrack sounds like the Evangelion theme song. -YuGaTA
45.) When you start crying and tears actually fly higher than your head. -YuGaTA
46.) When you wink uncontrollably. -YuGaTA
47.) When you start saying Japanese nonsense and bust out da peace sign. -YuGaTA
48.) When you wear a sailor suit at a public school. -YuGaTA
49.) When you correct peeps for pronouncing “ANIME” incorrectly. -YuGaTA
50.) When you put an entry on “You might be an OTAKU if..” -YuGaTA
51.) When you put more than one entry on “You might be an OTAKU if..” -YuGaTA
52.) When you speak Korean trying to play it off as Japanese. -YuGaTA
53.) When you take an art class and cuss cause Japanese Cartoon Art is next semester. -YuGaTA
54.) When you read all the way down this far the list of OTAKU jokes. -YuGaTA
55.) Somone reconizes your anime T-Shirt and you immediatly have to strike a
converstion with them, which ends in them saying, “Uh, im gonna go…over
there…” -Bokugajin
56.) When you get nervous a giant drop falls down your face. -Bokugajin
57.) On your Storys you write for english, there is always a side note written by
the teacher: Whats a Mecha? -Bokugajin
58.) You think minnmei is sexy AND smart! -Bokugajin
59.) You refer to your school lunch as Queen Feral, and after eating it you cry
out trimphantly “You fought well, but you are no match for my moon tierra
power.” -Bokugajin
60.) If you get offended and send hate mail when you find somthing NOT anime on a
prodominantly anime web site. -Bokugajin
61.) You have hurt yourself trying to do “That cool thing Kaneda did” on your
bike. -Bokugajin
62.) You are genuinely suprised when your fireball spell dosn’t work, and the
school bully kicks your ass. -Bokugajin
63.) You have ever took a shot at Mickey and hit. -Bokugajin
64.) You’re afraid to get splashed by cold water eeep!– Cynthia
65.) You are an otaku if you start feeling going sd form when something goes
wrong. -mpetilo
66.) when you start throwing roses at peoples for no reason, except maybe
beleiving they are holding your princess captive. -mpetilo
67.) You memorized every single anime song that you’ve heard. -mpetilo
68.) you have you hair done anime style -mpetilo
69.) you start looking for the rainbow crystals -mpetilo
70.) you buy sailor moon’s wand and start yelling out the attacks at everyone -mpetilo
71.) you name your kids after anime characters and make them grow up looking
like one. -mpetilo
72.) you get some toliet paper write something on it and try to stick it on
people’s forhead to see what happens -mpetilo
73.) you got your whole family watching anime…even your grandparents! -mpetilo
74.) you start eating like usagi -mpetilo
75.) you dream about food like Miaka -mpetilo
76.) you weat a hat (like chichiri’s of fushigi yuugi) and try to disappear
under it when you get in trouble with your parents. -mpetilo
77.) You find Shun or Shiryu to be better company than your current
boyfriend. -Tempy
78.) You dye your hair lime green so it matches your pink armor. -Tempy
79.) You actually own a pink armor. -Tempy
80.) Your nose actually bleeds when a cute girl bends over. -Dang
81.) You think perverted thoughts a lot. -Dang
82.) You tell your boyfriend he better learn how to defy gravity or else. -Tempy
83.) You spent half an hour trying to think up one liners proving that you’re
an otaku! -Tempy
84.) You blast anime soundtracks from your car even though people look at you
funny. -Tempy
85.) You make up words as you sing along.. and people look at you real funny. -Tempy
86.) You listen to weird midis on your computer that the average Joe would
find highly interesting (sarcastically speaking). -Tempy
87.) You remind yourself that you’re not the average Joe when you get beat up
at school because you put Elmer’s glue in your hair so that it would
stick up funky like Sangokuu’s. -Tempy
88.) You wonder why you are surprisingly disappointed when an anime song
doesn’t make Billboard’s Top 40. -Dangy
89.) Your life is nothing but anime, and when your sister tells you you’re
pathetic all you want to do is grab an oversized hammer and whack her on
the head as she runs around in SD. -Tempy
90.) You know what SD stands for, but your sister thinks it’s some kind of
drug. -Tempy
91.) You sleep and there’s a big snot bubble coming out of your
nose…inflating, deflating, inflating, deflating… -Tempy
92.) You actually don’t find the previous entry disgusting… or at the very
least, strange. -Tempy
93.) You get blown into the air by an enemy’s fireball attack and don’t even
scream, but when he steps on your hand with his high heel shoes you cry
out in agony. -Tempy
94.) You don’t find a guy with blue hair, red lipstick, high heels, and a
pink armor a little strange. -Tempy
95.) You find it cool to walk around with a rose in your mouth, thorns and
all. -Tempy
96.) You actually throw a rose to announce your presence. (A rose which, may
I add, turns black when you are brainwashed by Queen Feral). -Tempy
97.) You actually used the word “debrainwashed” in your vocabulary at some
point in your life. -Tempy
98.) You think you can debrainwash a guy wearing a mask, but you can’t
program a VCR. -Tempy
99.) You watch Sailor Moon so much that you memorized every single line. -Tempy
100.) You put mute when you watch an anime and fill in the dialogues yourself,
high-pitched voices and all. -Dang