You Know You Watch Too Much Anime When....
1. You are beginning to pick up on the japanese language just from the subtitled videos...
2. Every email address/screename/nickname you have has something to do with anime...
3. Your mother knows the names of all the characters...
4. You are willing to spend all your money on a trip to an Anime Convention out of state...
5. You have bought anime items overseas off the internet (Heh, Japan, Canada, Germany)
6. You purchase items in a language you don't understand cause they have "pretty pretty pictures"
7. You paid an extra $20 and waited a month for the subtitled boxed set when the dubbed was in stock...
8. You use BlockBuster's "5 movies for $5 for 5 nights" to get anime movies...
9. You start going to a different video rental place because you've seen all the anime at this one...
10. Three words : Neo Sailor Senshi
11. Your sketchbooks are full of anime...(Not a bad thing!!!!)
12. You download over 150 anime Mp3's, even if you have a 56k modem and they each take an hour...
13. You get a membership at a bookstore just so you can have the 15% discount on manga...
14. Your collection of downloaded episodes is so big your dad makes you keep them on Zip disks or CDs...
15. You get a scanner just so you can scan your artwork for your website...
16. You tape all the episodes of a commercially released anime and take them babysitting with you...
17. When at a party, you draw symbols all over your body...including blush marks or drunk marks...(don't ask)
*You can actually pull off those blush marks, drunk marks, and that little sweat droplets at the drop of a hat...
18. You have created alter-egos that resemble anime characters...
19. Your alteregos have names, birthdays, and personalities...
20. ...and their own screenames...
21. You insist your father purchases more RAM just so you can listen to your MP3s and play with your KiSS dolls at the same
time, something a normal computer would do if you hadn't of downloaded so many episodes...
22. You get a faster modem so you can download episodes instead of buying them...
23. Non-anime loving friends are afraid of you...
24. Half of your bookshelf is manga and videos...
25. The people at your local anime shop/video rental place recognize you, perhaps knwo your name...
26. You make your dad give you his credit card number so you can bid on that really cool thing on eBay...
27. You spend WEEKS looking for a Sailor Saturn doll...and end up with two identical ones...
28. You call your friends using the suffix -chan or -kun...
29. You call your teacher using the suffix -sensei
30. You do this to their faces...
31. ...and think nothing of it...
32. You see a bargain on an anime you used to watch, and buy it; even though you've seen it all...
33. You make anime winamp skins or desktop themes...
34. ...and people like them...
35. You have forgotten how to draw normal people, they always come out with big eyes and no nose...
36. You adopt an anime character's name and people call you by it...
37. You go to a website so you can find the lyrics to anime songs...
38. You don't need the lyrics website because you listen to the song so much you already know what they are saying...
39. You remember the character's birthdays and attempt to celebrate them...
40. You insist your family visit San Francisco on vacation just so you can go to China Town...
41. You write your own anime or manga...
42. You notice the car brands "Mercury" and "Saturn" and promise yourself you will oneday own one...
43. Your teachers call you and your friends the "Sailor Moon People" and you get mad because your favorite anime is Gundam...
44. You make plans to create anime costumes and sell them for beaucoup bucks online...
45. You have your own Silence Glaive made of foil...
46. You do your hair like your favorite anime character...or try to...
47. You swear that one day, you will own the World's Largest Anime Castle; and tell your friend that she can work in the
office and do slave labor while you and your other friend have fun designing and making cash...(Not like we did that or
anything...^^: wink
48. You stop seeing the resemblance between a senshi outfit and a sailor suit...they are FUKUS!!!
49. Your friends and you have fights over the pronunciation of anime titles/names, and you get mad when they are right...
50. You sit down to make a list like this one and have no trouble coming up with examples because you've done all this stuff
and don't find it a bit strange...
51. Your ask your friend, who knows Japanese, how to write your name in the language...and she tells you...
52. You find it somewhat hard to be close friends with people that hate anime...
53. You die your hair with Kool-Aid and it isn't Halloween...
54. Your parents insist that you get a job so you can pay for your anime needs...
55. You study really hard and get straight A's so your parents will reward you with money that you can buy anime with...
56. You stay up till 3AM with writing fanfiction on your laptop...
57. You stay up till 5AM working on your anime website...
58. You chose a few select stories to put on a floppy and take with you when you go somewhere that may be a bit boring...
59. You cried when Nuriko died...or any anime character died...(I know I did)
60. You can't resist spoiling the anime for your friends and they still love you anyway...
61. You sing an anime song so much your friend knows the words and they've never heard the song...
62. You've only seen one episode and you are already considering buying the whole series...
63. You buy the $106 boxed set when you haven't seen ANY episodes...
64. ...and you won't let your friends borrow the tapes for fear of their destruction...
65. You find younger cousins that occasionally watch the commercially released episodes and insist on telling them what
REALLY happened...
66. You own at least one piece of clothing with an anime character on it...
67. As soon as you log on to eBay, the search word you type is a-n-i-m-e....
68. You've burned at least 15 CDs with anime songs, some of which are incomplete but you don't care because the download got
cut off and you really love that song...
69. You shout out transformation sentences randomly because you just had the urge to...
70. You wonder if you know me or not because you remember doing all these things before...
71. You DO know me and get mad because you were the friend that I'm talking about...
72. During lectures, you understand and relate world events to events in the lives of anime characters...
73. You get a little nervous upon remembering that none of it is real...
74. You kill your alter-ego because people like her more than you...
75. You buy a certain kind of socks because they resemble the funny flat shoes that Tamahome wears...(I like them, Mollee)
76. You and your best friend use Barbie dolls to do a spoof of an anime, and then record it and give it to your other friend
for Christmas because he asked for a boxed set you couldn't afford...(Email me for details)
77. You write the kanji for person on your hand twice and swallow it when you get antsy...
78. You sit in your basement in the winter with wet hair and no socks writing a list much like this...
79. You don't remember what is was like not watching anime and start to tear up over the subject...
80. You create a paper sweat drop that use cut out and use as needed...
81. You go and see movies about Mars or another planet just because...
82. Your teacher asks for a list of things you read and your number one item is "Subtitles"...
83. You force your mom to buy "Cups of Soup" because the brand name is Maru-chan and you think that sounds familiar...
*you buy stock in Maru-chan 'cause you still believe it sounds awful familiar...
84. You take a strange liking ramen noodles...
85. You start calling your siblings Onii-chan and Onee-chan...
86. You start throwing things in a fit of rage when you found out your favorite anime has been dubbed and they've "done it
all wrong"...
87. You call webpages with incorrect information "a disgrace to anime"
88. You force your family to watching Grave of the Fireflies with you, and when they say they don't like cartoons you retort,
"It's not a cartoon it's ANIME"...
89. You finally get them to watch it by saying it is a very educational movie about World War Two that will make you feel
guilty you live in the US... (They never watched it with me...VideoLibrary was out of copies)
90. Your computer is named Nataku smile
91. You learn valuable life lessons from anime/cartoons...
92. Especially from Sailor Moon says...
93. You try and apply them to your life...
94. You can do the laugh from Sailor Moon says...
*When you get older and have children you give them anime names...
*you name your cats Luna, Artemis, Diana and Ryo-Ohki...
*After an episode of GundamWing you hear a voice..."If you build it they will come"....
*when you mother gives you a kiss and tells you to have a nice day at school you turn and reply, "Mission Accepted!"....
*You scarf down A TON of food because you think that's what makes an incredible superhero (i.e. Usagi & Gokou)
*When hailing a cab in N.Y. you whistle and yell out, "Flying Nimbus"....
(don't you just get an image in your head after reading that one?)
*take Japanese as your major.(not necessarily a bad thing, though)
*you get sent to the principle's office for inciting a riot in the cafeteria upon questioning the lunchladies: "What is this? Don't you know that I'm the Prince of ALL Sayiens?"
*you start growing your own tail and have a strange attraction to the moon..
*you sign up for a martial arts class and upon a demonstration with the black belt instructor, you face him and declare: "I have been trained in the art of Kaioken!"....
*You take up Home Economics in High School because you want to try to grow your own Seinzou beans...(I hope that's how you spell it)
*you cannot understand why you get a different effect from PINTO beans...
*you adopt a monkey and call it "Bubbles" and catch a grasshopper and name it "Gregory"...
----then you run around your backyard trying to catch the monkey, and attempt to hit the grasshopper with a mallet....
------convincing yourself "It's all for my training"
*On your birthday you send out invitations to all your friends, asking them to meet you at "the Kame house"..
*Your rock collection consists of seven gold spherical stones each with a diffrent number of stars...
*Upon finding out you are about to take a pop quiz in your math class, you start searching for the Self -Destruct button....
*you get up EXTRA early in the morning to make your hair resemble Trowa's...
*you get up EVEN EARLIER in the morning to grow your hair like Duo's...
*you stick little yellow crescent moons to everything you own...
*upon being cut off in traffic you pop down the window and yell out "I see you IN THE NEXT DIMENSION!!!!"....
*you accidentally call your friends names you got from anime series;
*you try to talk to all pandas and ask, "Where are your signs?" and pour hot water on them;
*you constantly beg your parents to let you try pork buns;
*you say, "I'm in girl form now," to random people in the grocery store
*Your binder, notebooks, and book-covers for school are all shrouded in Anime, and nothing more.*
*You fall in love with Anime guys...*
*People you know who don't like Anime try to stick you in a mental institution because you can't carry on a conversation without mentioning that they "somewhat resemble Darien, or Gene Starwind"...*
-you dress up exactly as your favorite anime character
-you cut off your arm, expecting it to grow back.
-your teacher gives you extra homework and you yell "do you teachers know the true meaning of fear?" and then yell out Ka......Me.....Ha.....Me.....HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-you try to power up (only to pop a blood vessel)
-you pretend to power up and then jump off a playground set, expecting to fly
'If It's One thing I've Learned, I Learned it by Watching Gundam Wing".
- Psycho boys in huge metal robots are adorable!
- Those who lay eyes on a Gundam shall not live to tell of it
- One cannot be feminine with creepy eyebrows that can jump out and EAT you and a certain passion for war.
- Mission Accomplished
- If you don't want to be seen, cover your face with your hand and no one will be able to tell you're an idiot!
- Approach with Caution
- Clowns are STILL creepy but now they're creepy and HOT
- Egghead helmets hide the Bishounens within
- Omae o korosu
- If you're working for OZ and the comms go dead- GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE!!
- If there is a sudden enemy attack and you can't see the enemy, kiss your sorry butt good-bye
- Obsession is either annoying or ... nope. Its just annoying. Never ask a kill-crazed boy about himself.
-No matter what you do, you'll always end up as the bad guy.
- Start a musical duet with every strange pilot you meet.
- Take a hint and buy a clue. If it cant be identified within five seconds... IT'S A GUNDAM!!
- Never trust a woman that was two personalities and not a full name between them
- Fire! Fire!
- Women are weak unless they kick your butt. Then, they're just lucky
- Swirly hair is the look of a modern Chinese guerrilla soldier
- Its always the quiet ones that crack
- A little gel will go a long way for trendy hairstyles
- Be courteous: Setting your own broken bones is impressive but it's just gross!
- Mission Accepted
- Purposely kill a thousand strangers and it'll mean nothing. Accidentally kill a little girl and her puppy, and the scars may never heal
- If he's a sarcastic jerk with a high IQ and some MAJOR complexion problems I'd like to introduce you to Doctor H, Doctor J, Doctor B.
- Metal and feathers can't be wrong
- Never leave Heero to fix his broken Gundam while you're asleep. The next morning will be hell.
- Everybody are weaklings.
- Warning! Pre-teen boys are more deadly than they appear.
- If you don't have brains enough not to chase down an unstable pilot trying to kill you, you shouldn't be handed an entire kingdom to DEFEND!!!
- It's never too late to turn against Earth.
- War is a necessary evil & like Relena
- All-out war to achieve peace? Makes sense.
- Duo's pride-and-joy is three feet long (hee-hee his braid)
- If you talk to your Gundam more than your comrades you need help really fast
- It goes: Gundam, Honor, Peace, THEN personal well-being
- The definition of peace is 20% blowing something up, 20% of what you say, and 60% on what you're blowing up when you say it
- Little citizens and towns go squish
- If something has a series of numbers as a title, (i.e., Colony 03554) you MUST emphasize EVERY number.
- Thermal weapons function just fine underwater. Don't waste time on asking why!
- Any kingdom called Sank is doomed to fall and REMAIN down!
- Gundamium is a boy's best friend
- Heavyarms will ALWAYS run out of bullets in the heat of battle
- All a boy really needs is a Gundam to talk to and an embassy to blow up.
- All OZ really needs is. to give it up while they're alive! Geez!
- Send in the clowns
- Blonde Arabian princes come fully equipped with a mass-murdering machine,
an entire army of lackeys, and fresh tea.
- Let's face it ⦠the Chinese will remain honorable, the Japanese will be
advanced beyond compare, while the Americans drink coffee, the Arabians drink
tea, and the Latinos sit quietly with cool hair and a structural body-build
fit for livinâ la Vida loca
- For every father lost, two colonies go down
- Machines will one day rise up and take over EVERYONE'S minds
- If a mobile suit is strong enough to manipulate Heeroâs mind then I say
it's high-time to STOP the upgrades!
- If at first you don't succeed a¦ self-detonate
- You can only get Trowa to laugh if you can describe intense pain in
four-or-less words
- Earth is beautiful. Very, very beautiful
- Black matches everything
- Spandex are eternally Heeroâs.
- The entire OZ organization has no peripheral vision
- Omae o korosu (I did it again!)
- The God of Death has GREAT hair!
- Never ask "What was that?" The answer won't be to your liking
- He gets knocked down, but he gets up again.
- Things aren't always what they seem
- Heero is a GREAT actor!
- Ignorance isn't bliss, it's another reason why Romafeller will never win
- Don't bother saying "I got him!" Because chances are, you didn't
- Quatre has the right idea, I'd gladly fight Trowa, if it meant I could see him again
- This isn't right
- The best way to live your life is by following your emotions... this coming from the heartless, psychotic, silent person?
- I could really fall for that clown!
- Uh I'll take Maniac Pilots for 500, Alex...
- This isn't a game! It's also a TV show, a toy, and an expensive alignment of merchandise
- From now on, I'm driving from UNDER my car
- Heero Yuy without a gun is like.... Wufei
- It'd take a miracle for you, but he can handle it
- Never compliment a traitor
- Keep it down over there!
- W-what Gundam behind my back? I don't have anything!.
- Don't ask where the kid got the money. Just give him the truck AND the explosives
- If you can't hit psycho from twelve feet, let me just clear the air between your ears you're a lousy shot!!
- OZ explained in three words: Dead Men Walking
-if your best friend and yourself sing the first outlaw song theme so much that you sing in your sleep
- if you have a name from every show you watch
-You want to spend $30 on 7 toys you saw at Wal-Mart
-you NEED Anime to live
-You and your friend fight over Heero Yuy
-you start to think that Zechs Marqise is kinda cute
-you have fantasies about your favorite gundam pilots
-death isn't scary anymore
-you only date oriental guys with brown hair and blue eyes
-any guy with a pigtail is in for a cold,wet surprise
-any time you hear '' hero'' or "dynamic duo", gundam wing pops into your head
-you have a sudden but strange liking for clowns
*You know you watch too much anime if on your wedding you DEMAND at the reception you watch the ENTIRE Wedding Peach Series*
*You stayed up till 11:00p.m. to record all the episodes of Gundam Wing uncut without the comercials.*
When you have mock battles with your friends with Gundam Wing models.
You create your own chat room just to talk about Duo Maxwell.
When you find out that every anime screen name you know is already taken.
When you really have to have anime and have to order from japan because the store you normally by anime from has no videos you don't already have.
When you suddenly have the urge to change your name to a anime one and get a cat.
When you have learned japanese by watching anime.
When you know exactly what happens in every episode and exactly when it will happen to come on next year.
When you find yourself building robots a lot.
When you have all your friends and family give you anime on your birthday.
