myOtaku.com: Ayame Clyne

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Vitals

Birthday
• 1987-11-14
Gender
• Female
Location
• My own world
Member Since
• 2005-04-07
Occupation
• Still a high school student, and a crappy one at that ^^'

Personal

Achievements
• Still working on those
Anime Fan Since
• I was born
Favorite Anime
• ooOOOoooo Dangerous question here they are (in no particular order): Inuyasha, Gundam Seed/Destiny, Fruits Basket, Ranma 1/2, Fushigi Yuugi, Yu Yu Hakusho, DnAngel, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Ayashi no Ceres, S-cry-ed, Full Metal Alchemist, Rurouni Kenshin
Goals
• To become an animetionist and/or manga artist and/or Voice actress for anime
Hobbies
• Drawing, playing on the internet, Painting and traveling
Talents
• I think i can draw pretty good, and paint

myOtaku.com: Ayame Clyne

Sunday, November 6, 2005

I LIVE!!!!! Lol yea, sorry for not being around in over a month, I think I was just really burnt out on otaku, but i think now Im ready to start being active again! Yayers ^_^. Well not much Has happened since I last updated, I ordered my cap and gown the other day, ugh i feel so old T_T. Oh well lol, thank you Lie74, when i went around to some sites, I noticed I was part of her "my girls" section, that was so sweet! Yea Lie74, your one of my best friends here on otaku ^___^. Well, Thats about all the news I have for now, but I'll start visiting ho ever updates K, I hope you'll do the same for me. I'm going to change for theme soon, when my schedule allows it, dont know to what though, any ideas? Oh yea! Im so excited ^o^ My b-day is coming up! Its on November 14, I'll be turning 18 T_T (so Old) but my mom said she might be getting me an Ipod!! w00t! Im so happy ^___^. Oosh Ooosh I want you guys to read something that you might agree with, my friend wrote it, but i changed it around a bit to make it how i feel, but anyways here it is (its kinda long so you dont have to read it ^^'):

"This is slowly coming to my attention more and more as I get further and further into anime, but it seems like the entire fan base is filled with people who just seem to have a habit of showing off.

It's little things really, like the very phallic argument that “I've seen more anime than you have” or “that anime is rubbish,” with the undertone being that the person is merely discrediting it because it's one of the popular ones and they want to show that they watch the rarer anime than the popular internet community wouldn't have heard about

But what does that really mean? That you should be proud because you sit on your ass longer than the rest of us to watch something. Basically all anime is a TV show, its not really any that different from the Simpsons to Code name Kids next door, all in all, its just a bunch of tv show separated into different genre’s and from a different country. But it has a large fan base, my self included.

Another obvious example is the usage of Japanese phrases. Now, as an ex Japanese language student, I’ve found myself integrating the two languages, Japanese and English, together quite naturally, and I try to keep it to simple things. But there appear to be people out there that seem to use these phrases as a way of saying 'I’m more cultured than you are.' They use them in their signatures or what not, either taken directly from an anime song, or make badly written ones themselves (often without particles) and, if you were to ask them, they probably wouldn't even be able to tell you what a single word in it means.

Maybe i'm becoming paranoid, or that i feel that, since i used to feel a bit like this myself (I did once, rather ashamedly, mock someone for having a smaller anime collection than me), that maybe it is a common trait among anime fans when it isn't. But I feel I notice it too often. People saying 'Have you watched any of these anime?' and then providing a list, clearly a list of anime they have watched, as a way of, again, saying 'if you haven't watched all of them, I’m better than you at anime' which is really pathetic."

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