I gave more thought to this last night and it occurred to me that this site isn't filled with tons of hardcore music enthusiasts either, and nobody seems to get upset about that. Anime and Music are really just the mediums used here. People must like the mediums at least a little to bother using them, right? Otherwise it'd be more work than fun. And that gets expressed differently with different people. Just because someone has a reserved personality or is capable of feeling things like shame and embarrassment doesn't make them any less appreciative than squeeing fangirls making fools of themselves at a local con's Voice Actor roundup.
Another interesting bit - I bring this up because I find the irony humorous in this context. The concept of "otaku" co-opted by American anime fans to mean 'super fan' or the like, is actually more properly defined as someone who's obsessively fixated on a thing. It's characterized by someone who gives the same amount of seriousness to both work and play. The literal embodiment of srs bsns. How's that for a mindfuck?



















