Ah yes, the title of this is indeed what i have heard many times from my sister. Both of us being Anime and Manga fans.
I just finished both seasons of Genshiken tonight. it is 4 AM now and of course, my favorite time to speak my mind. Genshiken is about about a college club for otaku and the lifestyle its members pursue. The title is a shortening of the club's official name, Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyūkai , or "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture" The series is highly revolved arond doujinshi, particularly x-rated and thereofore it is aimed more towards the Male crowd. However, i suffered through the 1st season and came out with something more then a new perspective on perverted otakus! i came out realising that the whole series, is based on how we are different. How we as otaku, can come together and be ourselves. (and how we are in our way perverts...gender has no place)
For one such as myself, a person that grew up not knowing anyone in real life that liked Anime i was always embarressed by it. the type of friends i grew up, the crowd that i often followed in school...well... an anime fan was typically...opposit of them.
maybe thats why i never fit in, because i following people that werent like me, i was simply going through the crowd, not admitting to who i was as a person.
I think it took me some time, and a lot of solitude, and and basic emo-ness to make me realise who i felt more comforable around.
being and anime fan in world where anime isnt yet well known(although in the last couple of years its popularity is going way up!) is hard enough, but being an anime fan with no anime friends, is even harder! and when i did finally find those dear friends i was looking for, i felt unworthy. i felt as if i didnt even fit in with THEM.
But anyway, genshiken touched me personally, and as the characters came out to who they were, and what embraced what they enjoyed as anime fans, it made me remember why i love anime so much.
and as i fall asleep tonight, i fall asleep with a bit more love for who i am, and the incredibly hopeful wishing that there will be a 3rd season of genshiken.^^;
