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What caused you to become an Otaku?

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Spaghetti-san
28 posts
Joined August 2011
Topic Starter
Spaghetti-san
I didn't see any topic like this I made one and I thought it would be interesting how other people became Otakus :P

For me it's Nyan Cat , then it went to Vocaloid to Nico Nico Douga Kumikyoku which then branched off to Touhou , anime, manga and visual novels. Yeah that's the story of my life xD
Aoko
1,053 posts
Joined June 2011
Aoko
Hmm... it started by watching anime for the first time in the TV screens.
It seemed fun, so I started buying manga. Then watched anime online, played visual novels [Clannad: Full Voice for that matter]. Sooner, I discovered Vocaloids and Nico Nico Douga then I learned to love Japanese Songs ♥
Sync
osu! Alumni
1,575 posts
Joined April 2011
Sync
toonami (americans will know what this is)

edit: i'm not even that much of a weeabo though

well maybe I am

but not as much as other people

;_;
Irisu_old
299 posts
Joined January 2012
Irisu_old
Well I saw some manga at my library and decided to check it out. I fell in love with it and soon found out about anime,cosplay,etc. Now I'm glad I was curious :D
Aoriki
778 posts
Joined February 2011
Aoriki
My older brother. I was watch Magic Knight Rayearth with him and that how I became an Otaku. (But not as much in the past now. I slowly was drifting away from my Otaku stage, yay~)
xsrsbsns
1,936 posts
Joined July 2010
xsrsbsns
osu, actually.

I barely watched any anime / knew nothing about touhou or comiket etc before knowing osu.
thelewa
3,537 posts
Joined August 2010
thelewa
I think I started watching anime when I saw my brother watch some good ones, such as Gungrave or Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

I wouldn't call myself an anime otaku though.
Giganscudo
13 posts
Joined January 2011
Giganscudo
When i was a child (though i still mentally am). I was bored and opened up the TV and came across an anime (back then i didn't know it was an anime) Wanted more episodes, searched the net, found it, came across more anime, came across Osu/games/manga/stuff and then you have me.
K a Y e
467 posts
Joined September 2011
K a Y e
Some friend introduced it to me. Until then, I became an OTAKU~
-Athena-
1,414 posts
Joined June 2011
-Athena-
I don't qualify for the honorable title of otaku yet D:
Takaichi
295 posts
Joined June 2011
Takaichi
I read manga from manga rental near my school and watched Animax..
Kinrinjin7
145 posts
Joined January 2012
Kinrinjin7
I was watching some animes and then i found out that it was better than cartoon ( at least some ). It has a storyline not like cartoons that has like for each episode, a new story.
Konaruhi
1,413 posts
Joined February 2011
Konaruhi
Animax. Desu owo
silmarilen
5,579 posts
Joined February 2010
silmarilen
saw an AMV on youtube and i liked it so i started watching the anime.
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Pizzicato
2,739 posts
Joined February 2011
Pizzicato
Typical teenagers here are retarded. I don't wanna become like them. Therefore, otaku
Valentiino
1,945 posts
Joined June 2011
Valentiino
Well, it all started with Pokémon, Digimon & Dragon Ball (the only shows showed up in TV).

But I started to watch anime and got interested in japanese culture around 2008~

And nowdays it's just weeaboo to the max .__.
mathexpert
1,699 posts
Joined March 2011
mathexpert
For me it started with Naruto & Beach, but then I stopped watching anime for a while. What turned me into an otaku was Ookami-San, I just loved the different archetypes (like tsundere, loli, etc), the romance, and comedy. It was a completely new and amazing experience, and I've been hooked ever since. ;)
synchronincity
7 posts
Joined January 2012
synchronincity
It started off with a recent anime: The World God Only Knows.
After that I went to Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya.
My life was ruined by then......
hoihoisoi
134 posts
Joined May 2011
hoihoisoi
I was an introvert back when I was younger and so the only thing which kept my life filled with color was manga. First manga i read was Mahoraba and then the list started to pile up like crazy. Now I have like a real social life but I still stick with my roots of being an otaku cause anime and manga just has to be part of my life.
dNextGen
dNextGen
Internet

I wouldn't call myself an anime otaku though.
pacmanmania
2,740 posts
Joined July 2011
pacmanmania

dNextGen wrote:

Internet

I wouldn't call myself an anime otaku though.
ampzz
ampzz
Early childhood.
10nya
2,746 posts
Joined February 2011
10nya
it more enjoyable being 'otaku' than being a normal student orz
I found bored being normal student and being otaku is not boring at all~ that was caused me xD
those
3,136 posts
Joined November 2010
those
The fail of the human race made me believe in something else.
Rey Fullbuster
2,229 posts
Joined September 2010
Rey Fullbuster
because of this game, and i got a friend who also an otaku :D
Xylem Beer
260 posts
Joined September 2011
Xylem Beer
Started 3 years ago when I got addicted to Special A without knowing it. I used to hate animes tho when I was still a kid.
BatterKnife
63 posts
Joined August 2009
BatterKnife
I got addicted to cuteness when I started watching anime 3 years ago
Jazz
674 posts
Joined March 2011
Jazz
i'm already watching anime before but not to the extent that i stalk research about the voice actors and the artists

i only started being addicted when i was in first year high school
my uncle made me get obsessed in code geass there i started googling jun fukuyama, orange range, FLOW, CLAMP, etc.
Oreiora
161 posts
Joined March 2012
Oreiora
I wouldn't necessarily say "caused" my to become an otaku, there's no social discrimmination against otakus where I live anyway. I'd say that I first starting watching anime when I friend lent me the whole series of Prince of Tennis when I was into tennis. Soon after that, the same friend lent me D.Gray Man. Before I knew it, I was on the internet watching all sorts of animes.
Capricore
41 posts
Joined February 2012
Capricore
Well, my dear human, simple curiosity and that curiosity led to another thing called "interest" which led to, yet another thing, called addiction.“ヽ(´▽｀)ノ”
Mitsuneko
325 posts
Joined July 2011
Mitsuneko
I might have been an otaku even before I realized it.As a child, I really enjoyed Inuyasha, Naruto, and other anime. I had all the Inuyasha video games,dvd's, manga & such, but then I kinda forgot about it.
Years later, I thought that the anime I really enjoyed was Naruto, even though it was Inuyasha. I started to watch the anime though & I loved it too. Soon after, I discovered what Lucky Star was. I finally decided "I wanna be a full-otaku like Konata Izumi!" So, that from vocaloid to a bunch of other stuff. So now I'm an otaku.
Story of ma life~
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GeNJiii_old
GeNJiii_old
My history is the same but without Inuyasha, I saw dragon ball, naruto and one piece when I was a child. A few years ago ( like 4 ) I really dont know when I started to be an otaku, but I am. I started to see One Piece and Naruto and I really enjoy them, I still watching it
Mizou-kun
Mizou-kun
My older brother :D It all started with Naruto .. then Bleach .. Then I had a computer of my own \o/ :D


Also Pokemon :D
Liut
777 posts
Joined June 2011
Liut
Same as some1 already said.
My older brother introduced me to otaku/videogames
Anyway i don't really consider myself an otaku
tyrael6192
706 posts
Joined October 2010
tyrael6192

those wrote:

The fail of the human race made me believe in something else.
QFT... a whole new romantic dream visionary side came out of nowhere and my mind went from sterile to creative
orz

I've only watched a few anime, but I'm completely obsessed with Japanese culture, language, -> music, -> vocaloid, then somehow cosplay, so on... I'm not sure if that qualifies as complete otaku or just a weeaboo, but I'm not denying either title. It's a weird story, actually, how I came to be here in the first place... I had a game on my phone that imitated beatmania and one of the song packs that came with it contained within a remix of septette for the dead princess... I fell in love and eventually searched for this on youtube, and this was my link to the entire world of touhou fandom and doujin circle music...

I soon enough stumbled across gameplay of said music in a game called osu, and since then my knowledge of and interest in this previously remote sphere of culture has flourished hugely, and I doubt that, if I hadn't downloaded that one game from the android market, I would still be the same person today. Probably somehow ended up to be the most life-changing thing I've had happen to me. ^_^

In fact just found the song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApKIrubNa-s All the memories <3 Best bit starts at 4 minutes, so if you're uncertain just listen from there..
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani
Puberty and Mio Akiyama >3<~
KinomiCandy
798 posts
Joined June 2010
KinomiCandy
Haruhi Suzumiya.
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