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Atm I'm downloading: [U]Anime:[/U] [B]FMA[/B] - i havent seen the episodes in order, just whatever Adult Swim can muster up [B]Claymore[/B] [B]Soul Eater[/B] - I heard the anime expanded on stuff like fights, dunno (1 thru 30; apparently I have to hunt down 31-51 individually, I got a batch torrent for the first 30) [B]Amaenaideyo[/B] - I liked the art when I google searched it, I dunno I take a lot of recommendations, I haven't seen more than like 20 anime, so I pretty much like anything [U]Manga:[/U] [B]Monster[/B] [B]Welcome to the NHK[/B] - someone on crunchyroll said the manga went in more depth than the anime, dunno [B]Unbalance X Unbalance[/B] - someone on crunchyroll was complaining about the art, but I thot it was pretty good, and I've never seen Korean manga/anime As for currently watching, I'm finishing up Genshiken, then I'll probably move on to maybe Trigun? I dunno I have Azumanga Daioh, Love Hina, Trigun, and a few episodes of Outlaw Star on hold.

I wouldn't consider myself stereotypical, and until recently I didn't even know I was that into Anime and Manga. (Lol, I found out because there were like 5 people on Yahoo Answers with fanart asking where it was from and I knew =P) For me, it's just stuff I do, like making music and writing and drawing. I like all kinds of things, I try to spread my interests so that no matter who I'm with I can have something in common with them! I think there are enough degrees of interest in anime that you can avoid stereotypes easily. Unless you fan the stereotype. I try to distance myself from stereotypical people, because that's not who I want to be, but that's just preference. I watch anime at my house, if I had someone else who watched anime I might watch with them, but jumping right into an anime club is kind of awkward, because yeah, we all like anime, but they might not like other things I like. That's the thing, it's not like we Just like anime, we like a bunch of things, that's human nature. Maybe you like anime and FPS games and Hollister. Maybe you like anime and you draw fanart on deviant art and listen to Disturbed while you work. I would bet that just liking anime isn't enough to put a guy who idolizes School Rumble in the same club as a guy who wants to talk about the philosophy behind Ghost in the Shell or a guy looking for people to buy Doujinshi with him. And that's cool, that there are so many types of anime and manga that you could have entire different subcultures of the otaku subculture, that are all completely different, both in members and nature. Then you have the total stereotypical people. Guys that cosplay as female characters and stand in line for new doujinshi (wbt internet lol). That's usually what mundanes think when they think Anime-Guy. And while there isn't anything wrong with all the Anime-Guys in the world, I prefer to distance myself from that stereotype. Not because I'm hiding my love of anime and the like, but because that guy isn't me. And that's why I don't think I'd say that we are stereotyped. Because unless you are trying to stand out, there's really nothing different from anime lovers and other people. It's not like everyone who watches Lost has no concept of what a "Plot" looks like. Or everyone who watches prison break is totally satisfied with the fact that the show is no longer about "Breaking" out of "Prison". but I mean