You know you’re an otaku when...

You know you’re an otaku when...

• you try to start your own harem

• you look at the sky and wonder "where are the mechas?"

• you threaten to release your zanpakuto to your mom

• you start going to school in a sailor outfit

• your career aspiration is to be an alchemist

• you say "itadakimasu!" cheerfully before each meal

• you write to the Pentagon detailing the strategic advantages of Mobile Suits over conventional military hardware

• you buy all 20 boxes of pocky from your local convenient store when they finally restock

• Netflix gets their anime supply from you

• you start learning Japanese so you don't have to put up with bad fan-subbing

• you insist that you friends and family refer to you as '-chan'

• you take a break from watching anime to study

• you voted for Saimoe instead of American Idol

• you yell out the name of your attacks during a fist-fight

• all your sentences end with "desu"

• you get pulled over by the police and they ask if you speak English

• you watch hentai, just for the plot

• you introduce yourself last name first

• you're not attracted to 3D girls anymore

• you spasm when you find something you haven't watched already

• you have tried to start a Host Club in your high school

• you no longer question hair color

• everyone in your class is pissed at you because they KNOW that is you using up the bandwidth to download new anime

• you wear a bandana with random asian characters when you study for finals

• the guys at the comic shop ask you when new manga issues are coming out

• you hear the word NATO on TV you explain to your brother that they've misspelled NARUTO

• you lay awake in the middle of the night and decide to re-watch an entire series just to see if you missed anything

• you reserve a hotel room a year in advance for a con

• you give a 45-minute lecture when you hear someone mispronounce manga or anime

• large robots punching each other gets you all hot and bothered

• nobody asks why you're tired because they already know

• you can do all the jutsu hand signs correctly -- and you're not embarrassed about that

• you fap to trap -- and your doctrine is "fap now, worry later"

• you write an angry 7-page letter to Media Blasters demanding to know why they haven't licensed your favorite anime yet -- and you have included the complete roster of which voice actor to go with each role

• you reply "Hai" to your boss when she asks you to do something -- and freak her out

• you write your college entry essay on scanlation -- and you attach the manga you scanlated as proof

• you wear your cosplay costumes to Halloween party -- and you change every 10 minutes

• you can find all the mistakes on the wiki page about your favorite anime -- then you realize that YOU were the one who created this page last year, just after you watched the RAW

• you spend hours visiting anime forums and copy funny lines into your own otaku list -- like me