Anyone know people who let anime take over their lives? Oh man I knew quite a couple. Gave them the delusional idea that Japan is a "happy magical utopia" as depicted in most animes. No joke.
As someone who attends a couple of anime clubs weekly, I say I know plenty. But the majority of them are just high school students. At one time, even I felt that way about Japan being this "land of gold" with stylish technology, awesome food, and friendly locals, but then a few years later, I matured and found out it's just like any other asian country with the same people living their lives just like you and me.
Sooner or later, those high school students in the anime club will grow out of their "japanophile" syndrome (hopefully) and see that Japan isn't all what it is cracked up to be.
LOL What really irritates me is when they mix Japanese words they learn from anime in their English vocabulary.
"shut up you baka!"
"that cat is kawaii"
"ohhh that game is sooo sugoi"
embarassing.
In the anime club, all the freakin' time.
The girls can't stop lusting over how hot Inuyasha is!
They're lusting over how hot a "cartoon" is! Christ!
If they really want to learn japanese, they should just go take some language courses. Languages aren't made to be mixed.
However, I sometimes do use a couple of words from time to time in my vocabulary like "kuso" and "shimata" but that's only reserved for places where I can't swear (in english of course
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