You Know You're Obsessed With Anime When....

You Know You're Obsessed With Anime When....

1.) You take pictures of your family and friends out of your wallet and start replacing them with
pics of your favorite anime characters.

2.) You start mixing English and Japanese and give yourself  Japanese titles like chan or san.

3.) You start relating real life events with anime. For example, "Whoah, Josh just got punched!
Just like the time Inuyasha got punched by...."

4.) You start competing with your friends over who's seen the most anime, has the biggest
collection of manga, ect.

5.) You accidentally call someone by an anime characters name.

6.) You've thought of naming your pet after an anime character.

7.) You've actually named your pet after an anime character.

8.) You've thought of naming your kid after an anime character.

9.) You've actually named your kid after an anime character.

10.) You request a day off at work  for a "family outing" because if you said a
convention, they wouldn't let you take so many days off.

11.) People at hot topic know you as the anime girl/guy whenever you walk in.

12.) You think about things you narrarate them in the voice of your favorite character.

13.) You compare the price of everything you buy to the price of boxsets or single
dvds. Example: "That's going to cost me the price of two Gravitation DVDs."

14.) Whenever other people talk to you you answer with quotes from your favorite anime or
how your favorite character would.

15.) Your idea of hanging with friends is gathering all of your plushies in one place and
cuddling with them while watching anime or reading manga.

16.) You always fall for anime characters and never real people. (So true...)

17.) You can correctly guess all pairings in a series from the first episode's opening.

18.) You can correctly guess what will happen at the end of a series without seeing
the episode preview.

19.) You understand every otaku joke because it applies to you.

20.) You are unfazed when the hero's robot is destroyed, knowing he'll get a better one later.

21.) You can play a show in Japanese without knowing the language and with no subtitles.
And understand everything.

22.) You have actually stayed up for three or more nights straight doing nothing but watching
anime and reading manga. And for the True Otaku: With no coffee. The sparkly lights of
the magical girl transformations keep you awake.

23.) You wonder why no villain interrupts a magical girl transformation right when the girl's
in the buff just to see how she reacts.

24.) You have TRIED to do a magical girl transformation sequence. And succeeded.

25.) You write fan fictions with plausible romantic pairings. Or insane pairings that few other people
would even think of. (Naruto x Sakura as an example for the first, Gaara x Tsunade
for the second).

26.) You know the entire script of any given show.

27.) And the ultimate one... You have understood everything on this list in its entirety.

Others Added by Members:

28. When you start thinking of mean things to do to Jaken...for example:
You replace the Tensaiga with a normal sword and tell Sesshomaru that Jaken needs another
demonstration.

29.) When you can sing the opening/ending theme to your favorite anime word-for-word with
the off-vocal karaoke track on the soundtrack CD.

30.) When you have to buy a new hard drive for your computer because you've banked it out
with anime and J-pop.

31.) When your anime/manga/figures collection is worth more than the combined value of
your families cars.

32.) When you find yourself having an enormous argument about whether or not Naruto can
kick Edward Elric's ass.

33.) When you can identify every character's voice actor. By their full name AND previous roles.

34.) You're looking for new ways that you apply to this list

35.) You only go to your friend's house to get anime you havent seen yet.

36.) You talk about anime and manga and find nothing else to say on a date with a fellow otaku.

37.) You drive anyone that lives with you crazy 'cause you always talk about anime and fan fics.

38.) You try to think of more for this list and can't 'cause you are thinking of anime or manga.

39.) You try so hard to forget anime or manga but its setting on your TV at home begging to
be watched or read.

40.) When you draw or sketch anything its always anime-ish.

41.) Your favorite band is Japanese.

42.) When your buddies from a convention come online anime is all you talk about.

43.) When your game characters are named after anime characters.

44.) When all of your custom guild titles are anime/manga related.

45.) When you start buying cosplay uniforms from animes online.

46.) When you color you're hair to the color you're favorite anime character's hair color.

47.) When you have learned the basics of speaking Japanese though watching anime.

48.) When you have a lot of ecchi pics and screen savers.

49.) When you explain the difference between Yaoi and Yuri to your friends.

50.) When you have epic arguments over one pairing or another pairing in an anime,
but the pairings only exist in the fandom.

51.) When you stay up till four in the morning watching old animes episodes for no better
reason than you couldn't remember the theme song.

52.) When you know the theme song for the classics like Mock 5 and Sailor Moon, by heart.

53.) When you listen to a soundtrack from a popular anime series and you can't get enough of it.

54.) You name you rp characters after anime on other sites.

55.) You don't put up your picture, you put up a sexy anime girl.

56.) You try to sing the anime song you don't know all the words to at work and your co-workers
just ignore it.

57.) You get your boyfriend to watch anime(aka convert) because he doesn't understand what
the relationship is between your character and his. The he understands it!

58.) When your coworkers think you're crazy because you're singing along to the J-pop on your
headphones while sweeping the floor at work.

59.) When half your wardrobe consists of anime/manga/video game T-shirts/Hats/Hoodies.

60.) When your friends plot to get you drunk and dress you up as a neko mimi maid because
you'd TOTALLY be cool with it if you were drunk.

61.) When you start talking like a neko-mimi when you're really tired desu nya~

62.) When you realize you can't pay the bills because you just HAD to buy every season and volume of all of your favorite anime and manga. And the statues. And fan books. And... really, living indoors is overrated.

63.) When a guy asks you do you have a boyfriend and since you don't like him you'll say "Yeah, I do. He's very jealous." And that bf is the hot anime guy you love (but won't admit that to him lol).




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And thank you to TokyoPop.com for providing me with some of these hillarious You Know When's.