Signs You’re An Otaku

From Comic-Con to Otakon, otakus have long been together, talking about their favorite episodes and seasons or their favorite anime by their favorite studio and animator. You know, being an otaku is a way of life, and not just a hobby

1.Anime night.

How can you say no to a night binge session with some of your fellow buddies, watching anime ? You might not realize it, but you’ve just blown through 14 episodes in one sitting. The sun is coming up and the little cache of Red Bull you’ve stored away in your mini-fridge is depleted. Oh well. Bathroom break!

2. You secretly wish the world worked that way.

You’re re-watching an anime for the 10th time this year and you secretly wish that life is just like that .

3.Complain about lack of fan service.

Fan service is the anime studio intentionally creating situations or characters to appease the heavily male-dominated audience. and you as any other love the fan service

4.You get incredibly excited when a new episode comes out.

You will forgo classes to watch the new episode of One Piece, even though you know it is futile.

5.Or you will download entire seasons and binge watch them.

Your friend just recommended you Ansatsu Kyoushitsu. You will download all 50 episodes instead of just one. Your mantra: If you start it, you have to finish it.

Just one more and I’m going to sleep.

6. You own at least one dakimakura.

COME ON, ‘FESS UP. i have 7 of them 

7. You have one or more songs from an anime you like.

Not gonna lie, some songs are pretty badass. i just love them 

8. You talk smack about dubbed versions and watch it in the original Japanese.

And of course, you watch it with subtitles and don’t really pick up in the language — just little bits here and there. “Dubbed is lame,” you will say. “It doesn’t sound right.” And you know what? It’s true. But on the flip side, the manga version is so much better.

9. Anime t-shirts.

You. With the dragon ball  t-shirt. You stick out like a sore thumb. (Thumbs up.)

10. You collect everything about the anime.

You see this Gundam? That’s not all there is. There’s this. And this. And this. This too. And this. Need all of these. And pillows? …Yes.

11. You complain about filler episodes.

But you watch them anyway. (⌒_⌒;)

12. You wish animals could talk.

Ah, inu-kun, I wish you could talk to me.

13.You have your own victory pose.

You know, that stance you assume when you are on the dance floor.

14. They are anime.

Not cartoons!!!!!!!! 

Signs You’re An Otaku

11:56:00 AM anime, manga, otaku

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MANGA

Library to 300,000 Japanese comics

Not far from Nijo Castle, in the city center of Kyoto, is the Museum of the International Manga. Maybe because it is not located in a city that we call the capital of the manga, it remains relatively unknown to travelers in Japan. But there is another reason: this museum still quite far from the idealized image of the West in manga reader: usually the pimply teenager addicted to Naruto.

Built as a large library on three floors, this Manga Museum is actually very quiet. He held a long series of volumes and collections: three hundred thousand manga and documents according to the official brochure (!). Its central point is an impressive piece permanent exhibition on the history of manga.

From its origins to today, every library there offers hundreds of volumes available, sorted by release year. Like many others, we actually had a good time to re-read a few volumes of the Dragon Ball. It is even possible to take the manga to go read on the terrace of the courtyard, where children did their baseball training during our passage.

Obviously, all the manga featured in this museum are in the original language, in this case in Japanese. however, are some comics and Western comics, from evidence of links between the manga and its congeners in the world. For non-japanophones, explanations and guide are provided in five languages, including French.

At the exit, a small store divested as Abbott derivatives without doubt your remaining yen!

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MANGA

8:46:00 PM general, manga

MANGA (ON PAPER)

The origin of manga dates back to the Nara period at the early nineteenth century (Nara was the capital of Japan for 74 years in the era namesake “the eighth century”). Can be defined as a from of Japanese comics, must be read from right-to-left.

Actually developed and serialized in Japan after World War II, they have spread abroad later. France, second consumer of manga in the world, discovered them in the early 1990s.

Many genres and formats exist, but the classic remains the publication of a chapter in the weekly rhythm of a "Jump" type of magazine and a dedicated output accumulated ten chapters in a bound volume.

In Japan, some manga exceeded hundred published volumes, of which only a few titles have exceeded its borders: Golgo 13, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Hajime no Ippo.

MANGA (ON PAPER)

8:40:00 PM general, JAPAN, JAPANESE, manga