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4.26.06
Hello,
A few years ago, I could do nothing but dream of entering an anime enviroment, surrounded by people like me, that understood me (I'm 15 now). And yet now...it seems that all my brethren otaku are grumpy, sarcastic, and out of touch with reality. This depressed me so much that i I almost turned into a ''grumpy otaku" (roughly around the time One Piece was edited). Anyway, everybody seems to look down on each other and judge anime that they haven't seen badly, just because they have a ''gut feeling''. This seems very common, I have only met one or two otaku who are like me (yet about 20 years older). It is my theory that after a while, the youthful optimism disappears and is exchanged for a grumpy and depressed nature. I'm having a hard time escaping it myself, however it only comes to me because of the situation of my fellow otaku.
This extremely concerns me, where are all the nice otaku? Do you agree? Is it maybe because only my fellow British otaku are like that?
Please! I need answers! This is not how I imagined my future of anime, being ruined by those that are supposed to be my colleagues. Are we all doomed to become depressed and sarcastically evil zombies?
Thank you,
Michael
Deeply concerned otaku

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