Comments on: How Japanese young adults feel about anime and fans (at least from my experience) http://animeyume.com/blog/2009/08/17/how-japanese-young-adults-feel-about-anime-and-fans-at-least-from-my-experience/ Mainichi Anime Yume Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:16:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sonic_ver2 http://animeyume.com/blog/2009/08/17/how-japanese-young-adults-feel-about-anime-and-fans-at-least-from-my-experience/#comment-93555 sonic_ver2 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:00:33 +0000 http://animeyume.com/blog/2009/08/17/how-japanese-young-adults-feel-about-anime-and-fans-at-least-from-my-experience/#comment-93555 So they're basically the same as non-otaku people around us in our own country, minus having negative opinion regarding otakus' hobby. So they’re basically the same as non-otaku people around us in our own country, minus having negative opinion regarding otakus’ hobby.

]]> By: Koji Oe http://animeyume.com/blog/2009/08/17/how-japanese-young-adults-feel-about-anime-and-fans-at-least-from-my-experience/#comment-93543 Koji Oe Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:50:13 +0000 http://animeyume.com/blog/2009/08/17/how-japanese-young-adults-feel-about-anime-and-fans-at-least-from-my-experience/#comment-93543 Yeah I pretty much experienced the same thing during my 9 months in Japan as well. I really couldn't relate with Japanese students because I was this anime fan that also liked Japanese art culture and history. Things that many Japanese youth really don't care about, but I mean, we have the same thing in America. I have no interest in America's history or culture. Many of the Japanese students in the dorms were nice people but I found myself hanging around a lot of the other study abroad students more because we had similar interests (anime, Japanese language, culture, history). Yeah I pretty much experienced the same thing during my 9 months in Japan as well. I really couldn’t relate with Japanese students because I was this anime fan that also liked Japanese art culture and history. Things that many Japanese youth really don’t care about, but I mean, we have the same thing in America. I have no interest in America’s history or culture.

Many of the Japanese students in the dorms were nice people but I found myself hanging around a lot of the other study abroad students more because we had similar interests (anime, Japanese language, culture, history).

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