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1. You refer to your old beat-up 1982 Datsun as "my mobile suit". -Mike Toole 

2. You consider a career in devil hunting. -Kellie Smith 

3. If you cry out the name of an anime character while in the middle of making love, you might be a redneck (oops) ... otaku! -Jei Harvey 

4. You find nothing unusual about the idea of three sword-slinging female high-school students saving the universe with the aid of a giant, obnoxious bunny. -Mike Toole 

5. You have a serious discussion with another man at an anime club meeting about the difficulties of reproducing Sailor Moon Eternal's puffy shoulder pads on a costume. -David A. Brown 

6. You have been known to pour hot water on pigs, cats, and ducks, just to see what will happen. -Mike Toole 

7. You name your children, car, pets, computer, or other objects after anime characters...and defend your decision... "Oh come on! What do you mean my cel phone doesn't look like Lum! It's got stripes!" -Cristoff Westimer 

8. You come to Animecca and don't leave...for a few years. -Eviluser 

9. You begin to sing the theme songs in Japanese even though you don't know Japanese. -Alex Woo 

10. PSYCHIC WAVE! -Dan Thomas 

11. You try to meteo smash your little brother. -ESUNICO 

12. When you start thinking in Japanese but with English subtitles..heheAHAAHAHAHA.-YuGaTA 

13. When you name your babies Chibi-sumptin. -YuGaTA 

14. When you turn down a college cause they ain't got a decent anime club. -YuGaTA 

15. When you start taking Japanese...*I am planning to..hehe* -YuGaTA 

16. When your teacher starts calling you Sangokuu. -YuGaTA 

17. When your parents starts calling you Sangokuu. -YuGaTA 

18. When you are in college to study how to pilot Bio-Mechs. -YuGaTA 

19. When your girlfriend starts calling you Darien. -YuGaTA 

20. When your dream girl looks like Belldandy. -YuGaTA 

21. When you look up the Merciful and Helpful Goddess Office hotline in da phonebook.
-YuGaTA 

22. When you feel a little bit more powerful after screaming your head off. -YuGaTA 

23. If you start daydreaming that your girlfriend or boyfriend is an anime character. -Marella 

24. If you believe that your girlfriend or boyfriend will be an anime character! -Marella 

25. You start wearing sailor moon underwear -Marella 

26. You try to put your hair up like usagi and you tell people it's the new hair style. -Marella 

27. You start trying to form energy balls and try to do the dragon slave...or some other spell or energy attack -Marella 

28. If you throw you cat or rabbit into the air hoping it will become a spaceship! -Jon 

29. If you try to feed your cat carrots! -Jon 

30. If you pick up a sword and start yelling "LIGHT COME FORTH!" -Jon 

31. If you grow rrrreeeeeaaaalllllyyyy long hair and wear huge shoulderpads. -Jon 

32. You and a friend have an endless dicussion about valkyrie transformation and how impossible it is by watching Macross Plus scenes in slow-motion. -Barry 

33. You see yourself in Otaku no Video. -Barry 

34. You start sweating really BIG tear drops. -Barry 

35. You go to arcades reciting all the Street Fighter and King of Fighter characters lines while playing. -Barry 

36. You go to chinatown to look for any anime paraphenelia and buy it... because your an....OTAKU!!!! -Barry 

37. If you stop in the middle of a test and start yelling: "I am Hiashi Mishiba head of the
Mishiba-seibatzu HaHaHa(paranoic laughs)." -rserna 

38. Every time you get a headache you hear "AKIRA!" -Evil-Greedo 

39. You sing along with the kids in the beginning/end of sailormoon. -Evil-Greedo 

40. You can't get the Voltron music out of your head, and hum it uncontrolably. -Evil-Greedo 

41. You've seen one anime over 100 times. -Evil-Greedo 

42. When you start styling your hair like the Vegeta. -YuGaTA 

43. When you know what NIPPON ANIME means. -YuGaTA 

44. When you notice your life's soundtrack sounds like the Evangelion theme song. -YuGaTA 

45. When you start crying and tears actually fly higher than your head. -YuGaTA 

46. When you wink uncontrollably. -YuGaTA 

47. When you start saying Japanese nonsense and bust out da peace sign. -YuGaTA 

48. When you wear a sailor suit at a public school. -YuGaTA 

49. When you correct peeps for pronouncing "ANIME" incorrectly. -YuGaTA 

50. When you put an entry on "You might be an OTAKU if.." -YuGaTA 

51. When you put more than one entry on "You might be an OTAKU if.." -YuGaTA 

52. When you speak Korean trying to play it off as Japanese. -YuGaTA 

53. When you take an art class and cuss cause Japanese Cartoon Art is next semester.
-YuGaTA 

54. When you read all the way down this far the list of OTAKU jokes. -YuGaTA 

55. Somone reconizes your anime T-Shirt and you immediatly have to strike a converstion with them, which ends in them saying, "Uh, im gonna go...over there..." -Bokugajin 

56. When you get nervous a giant drop falls down your face. -Bokugajin 

57. On your Storys you write for english, there is always a side note written by the teacher: Whats a Mecha? -Bokugajin 

58. You think minnmei is sexy AND smart! -Bokugajin 

59. You refer to your school lunch as Queen Feral, and after eating it you cry out trimphantly "You fought well, but you are no match for my moon tierra power." -Bokugajin 

60. If you get offended and send hate mail when you find somthing NOT anime on a
prodominantly anime web site. -Bokugajin 

61. You have hurt yourself trying to do "That cool thing Kaneda did" on your bike. -Bokugajin 

62. You are genuinely suprised when your fireball spell dosn't work, and the school bully kicks your ass. -Bokugajin 

63. You have ever took a shot at Mickey and hit. -Bokugajin 

64. You're afraid to get splashed by cold water *eeep!*- Cynthia 

65. You are an otaku if you start feeling going sd form when something goes wrong. -mpetilo 

66. when you start throwing roses at peoples for no reason, except maybe beleiving they are holding your princess captive. -mpetilo 

67. You memorized every single anime song that you've heard. -mpetilo 

68. you have you hair done anime style -mpetilo 

69. you start looking for the rainbow crystals -mpetilo 

70. you buy sailor moon's wand and start yelling out the attacks at everyone -mpetilo 

71. you name your kids after anime characters and make them grow up looking like one.  -mpetilo 

72. you get some toliet paper write something on it and try to stick it on people's forhead to see what happens -mpetilo 

73. you got your whole family watching anime...even your grandparents! -mpetilo 

74. you start eating like usagi -mpetilo 

75. you dream about food like Miaka -mpetilo 

76. you weat a hat (like chichiri's of fushigi yuugi) and try to disappear under it when you get in trouble with your parents. -mpetilo 

77. You find Shun or Shiryu to be better company than your current boyfriend. -Tempy 

78. You dye your hair lime green so it matches your pink armor. -Tempy 

79. You actually own a pink armor. -Tempy 

80. Your nose actually bleeds when a cute girl bends over. -Dang 

81. You think perverted thoughts a lot. -Dang 

82. You tell your boyfriend he better learn how to defy gravity or else. -Tempy 

83. You spent half an hour trying to think up one liners proving that you're an otaku! -Tempy 

84. You blast anime soundtracks from your car even though people look at you funny. -Tempy 

85. You make up words as you sing along.. and people look at you real funny. -Tempy 

86. You listen to weird midis on your computer that the average Joe would find highly interesting (sarcastically speaking). -Tempy 

87. You remind yourself that you're not the average Joe when you get beat up at school because you put Elmer's glue in your hair so that it would stick up funky like Sangokuu's. -Tempy 

88. You wonder why you are surprisingly disappointed when an anime song doesn't make Billboard's Top 40. -Dangy 

89. Your life is nothing but anime, and when your sister tells you you're pathetic all you want to do is grab an oversized hammer and whack her on the head as she runs around in SD. -Tempy 

90. You know what SD stands for, but your sister thinks it's some kind of drug. -Tempy 

91. You sleep and there's a big snot bubble coming out of your nose...inflating, deflating, inflating, deflating... -Tempy 

92. You actually don't find the previous entry disgusting... or at the very least, strange. -Tempy 

93. You get blown into the air by an enemy's fireball attack and don't even scream, but when he steps on your hand with his high heel shoes you cry out in agony. -Tempy 

94. You don't find a guy with blue hair, red lipstick, high heels, and a pink armor a little strange. -Tempy 

95. You find it cool to walk around with a rose in your mouth, thorns and all. -Tempy 

96. You actually throw a rose to announce your presence. (A rose which, may I add, turns black when you are brainwashed by Queen Feral). -Tempy 

97. You actually used the word "debrainwashed" in your vocabulary at some point in your life. -Tempy 

98. You think you can debrainwash a guy wearing a mask, but you can't program a VCR. -Tempy 

99. You watch Sailor Moon so much that you memorized every single line. -Tempy 

100. You put mute when you watch an anime and fill in the dialogues yourself, high-pitched voices and all. -Dang