19 Things You'll Only Understand If You're An Anime / Manga Lover

1. You’re too tired to explain to other folk that ANIME and CARTOON are not the same.

2. No one will ever understand your desire to go to Japan one day.

3. You freak out when you meet another anime / manga fan.

4. You at least know 1/5th of the Japanese language, and it is your dream to learn it all for one reason only…

5. You have an endless amount of patience which accounted from the fact that you wait for your favorite episode/chapter to come out each week.

6. Fan-girling or fan-boying over attractive anime boys/girls creeps out the rest of the normal folk.

7. You randomly sprout words in ese to your close friends, because you know they’d get it somehow.

8. You just want to drown in misery when you hear someone say that anime is for kids.

9. You know the meanings of almost every anime reference there is. Yandere, chibi, loli, kawaii…

10. You don’t consider those who watch only mainstream anime (Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball Z) as true fans.

11. Given the chance, you’d enthusiastically convert any non-anime/manga-fan into an anime/manga-fan.

12. You constantly day-dream about the latest anime/manga that you’re obsessed with.

13. You are fixated with learning who voiced which character in every anime you’ve watched.

14. When someone disturbs you while you’re watching anime or reading manga, you shall unleash the wrath.

15. Your playlist is filled with anime soundtracks and your phone wallpaper is probably an anime character too.

16. You feel lost after your favorite anime/manga comes to an end.

17. You are struck dumb when someone asks you what your favorite anime/manga is.

18. You’re always the different one in your group, and you’re proud of that difference.

19. No matter how old you are, you will never stop loving anime/manga.