I got a question from Ken Lee the other day on when was my first steps into the otaku world. That question got me really thinking how, when, why, and what got me to become an otaku.
I have been an anime fan my entire life since I was 6 years old. My first anime series were Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball, Fist of the North Star, and Space Adventures Cobra, in that order. An uncle of mine would send me fan dubs of these series on VHS as presents after he was done with them.
My first true step in to the otaku world was when I bought the 2003 July issue of Newtype USA magazine. I remember seeing this magazine on the rack at my local Gamestop, I was going to buy a game but at the last minute but I changed my mind and got the magazine instead. This magazine opened my eyes to a whole new world that I had never seen. I read the whole magazine from front to back about 3 time in a week, but this opened another door to the otaku life.
There was a little column in the magazine listing every anime convention in the U.S. for the month and I saw that the local college was having their first one, it's called Yasumicon. I went with a friend to this anime con because we both like anime and we had nothing to do that weekend. It was a great experience and I met a lot of other anime fans that like the same things as me. I attended yasumicon for every after at until I moved for college.
I ended up moving with only one semester left of high school and I did not make any friends because I felt that it was not worth it. Anime was the one thing that kept me happy during a time that I was very depress. However, when I started college it all changed for the best and at that same time I discovered DannyChoo.com. DC was the main why I started to build Gundam model kits and collecting anime figures. Then one day I started to watch Genshiken and I figured out that I'm an otaku. So, what steps did you take to become an otaku?
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To tell the truth, it all started with Pokémon.
Yes. Pokémon. (No sniggering, please!)
I was about 8 or so when this new kid came to school and lent me all his GBA games. (We all thought GBAs were the best things ever back then... xD) Pokémon FireRed easily became my favorite,m and upon discovering there was an anime (or "cartoon" as 8yr-old me would've said! I COULD KILL 8YR-OLD ME!), I immediately went to watch it. Next thing I knew, I was way into it, and started looking for more like it. I joined quite a few Pokémon-related forums, and the users on there recommended me a few anime. I watched them all, and very soon ended up the geekiest kid in the village. (I didn't mind, though! xD)
Anime and the like isn't really welcome in my area, so I went to desperate lengths to make it look like I wasn't really into it. However, for me, watching anime is like an addiction; I soon ended up watching misc. anime on YouTube whenever possible. Even on schooldays. (Which still gets me into a lot of trouble.) Then my local bookstore got taken over,m and the new one had an (overpriced, but worth it) manga section. Well.. I don't really need to say any more about that bit, do I? "Holly Gray! It is an offence to read comics in school!" (To which I nearly always replied "IT'S MANGA, YOU IDIOT!", and almost always got myself huge amounts of lines (in which the teacher still used the term "comics"!! >=( ) Boy, was I stupid at that age... Then this other kid invited me to her party and we ended up watching anime almost all night,m and the other kid mentioned that I was becoming a bit of an otaku these days... well, I guess I am.
(Sorry about the cr4ppy grammar... Dx)
PS; Don't let this get onto other sites... but I never really gave up on Pokémon. O.o
I've been watching mainstream anime since I could remember. I started downloading series when I was 14 but I never actually watched all that many series because I got into MMOs when I was 12 (cuz you know...downloading makes you lag and gets you killed), and then there was a period where I dropped MMOs for Warcraft 3, and then to WoW. Another thing to note is that I've been building level 3 plamos for a while when I was 13-14, albeit unseriously and unsuccessfully.
Then come December of 07, when I first clicked on a 'Saber' thread in /e/, and that led me to do a wiki search on Saber. I downloaded the anime and was like O_O and T_T for the next few months (until April or May or some time then). Anyway, after the anime I got myself the game, in april I started to shop online, started to buy figures, attended my first anime convention in May, and yea, that's when I started to call myself an otaku. At that time I stopped gaming for good and got a part time job until summer ended.
My story is all over the place so forgive me: my friends got me 1/144 Virtue and Dynames for my 18th birthday in Feburary, I got Kyrios like two or three weeks later and Exia on the day the last episode of gundam 00 season 1 was shown (there was like 5 other people that were also running through model stores for the 1/144 Exia). I decided to go more serious into gunpla when I saw the Extreme Blast Destiny and decided to practice first on a HG 1/100. It looked fairly decent so I got my first MG a month later at the anime convention. That's how I got into gunpla and I started doing modifications on the kits after my first MG kit.
Yea, everything pretty much happened at once ^^;
Probally all started at Dbz and Sailor moon when i was a kid then i rented out the whole anime shelf at my local video store Lodoss War and such then i borrowed one dvd of EVA from a freind bought the whole set the next day and that pretty much been hooked ever since.
You know.. When you're a kid, every thing's just a 'Tv show/Cartoon'. I used to watch Tenchi Muyo, oddly hated Sailor Moon, Gundam G, but it wasn't until I saw the, "white haired cat guy" named InuYasha. That I started to do research on these cartoons.
I found out about anime through InuYasha.
Adult Swim and the internet.
Chat, friends.
Jpop. Jrock.
I became, ABSOLUTELY involved..<333
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