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⌈ Secret Post #1290 ⌋

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I knew people would reply to this all "we're so hip and edgey for calling you a douche, no one likes anime in japan, lolololol."

I was in Japan for half a year just recently. (Fukuoka) I made a few friends/acquaintenes through university and stuff...but, none of them were 'fandom friends'. When they say they like anime, they just mean mainstream stuff and the idea of 'fandom' would be wtf to them.
And then I went to a little mini animecon in a park. It was just a small cosplay event. I was sticking close to where this Hetalia group was because they were doing funny things so I was asking to take photos when they did. Eventually they caught on to me being able to speak Japanese, thought it was interesting and started talking to me. One of the non-cosplayers who was also taking photos took immense interest in the Meiko(vocaloid) badge on my bag and then we really started talking. It turned out this girl was into all my fandoms, and she really was a giant otaku. (She even called herself an 'otaku'). We exchanged phone numbers and met up again at least once a week or so, going shopping or having little drawing sessions, or just going out to eat. And we were always talking about fandom things (she talked about her ships a lot - turned out she also draws doujinshi). She's since become one of my best friends; she also introduced me to some other people there.
However, she couldnt speak a single word of english. All conversations were in Japanese. I've been learning for 7-8 years so this wasnt a huge problem for me but you say you're a beginner. It wasn't just her, NONE of the otaku girls I met could speak english besides some scarce nouns.
But anyway, now that I'm back in my home country, we still talk/chat online, on Skype and by email, it's a lot of fun.

I just thought I ought to post this to show people that this kind of thing can happen. I realize that my experience may be pretty unique and may not happen to everyone. Also I had language proficiency on my side, and it's not like I went on exchange in Japan solely to find fandom friends (it was for my university degree. I major in Asian Studies, I just also happen to be a fantard of a lot of things.)
The point is that you are not going to just randomly meet people anywhere, I think it has to be in a social setting (ie, this cosplay event). In my experience (with the number of otaku girls I met), the female anime fans are very friendly and open to conversation.

Aw, it's awesome to hear that you made a cool fandom friend in Japan! It is a lot easier to find animanga fans if you go to a convention/doujin event, I think.

In a similar vein, I was able to make a fandom friend in Japan simply by being obviously non-Japanese. A lovely girl at the theatre came up to me and my friend and asked if we spoke English. She went to an international school and her parents wanted her to study in America, so her English was amazing (my Japanese being only so-so). She's a massive fan of theatre idols and would always send us information about the latest events she'd been to. So making fandom friends in Japan isn't impossible. It's very rare and often unlikely, but not impossible, if you're lucky.

I'm glad you had an awesome time and made some good friends out there through fandom! I never got to any cons (big or small), but your story has made me want to go to one!

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