OH, NO! I'm an OTAKU!!!!

The above image explains what I am recently: "otaku." "Otaku" is a word from Japanese, and the meaning is: a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga, and video games. The link will give you more detailed explanation of "otaku": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku

So, let me explain why I say I am an otaku recently. The reasons are as following:

1. The weather: as the weather gets colder and colder, I become lazier to go outside except going to work and school. It's a lot colder than the winter in Taiwan or Tennessee, so the time I spent outside walking around is getting shorter. And, I gradually spend a lot of time at home studying or doing projects or watching anime.
   
2. I found out some anime clips online when I was small (well, middle school period). Those are really great anime stories, even better than the new ones. I can say those anime I like since I was small are classic. Most of people at my age also enjoy those anime (or they are also otaku).

The following image is one of my favorite anime when I was young. It's called "Revolutionary Girl Utena." The girl Utena is the main character in this anime and that is what she looks like on this following image. However...(scroll down)

She and the other girl (another main character) are in this kind of relationship.


Here's some brief introduction of this anime:

Revolutionary Girl Utena is a manga by Chiho Saito and anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. The manga serial began in the June 1996 issue of Ciao and the anime was first broadcast in 1997. A movie, "Adolescence of Utena" (少女革命ウテナ アドゥレセンス黙示録, Shōjo Kakumei Utena Aduresensu Mokushiroku, literally "Revolutionary Girl Utena Adolescence Apocalypse") was released in theatres in 1999. A number of stage productions based on the franchise were also produced in the mid 1990s, including the "Comedie Musicale Utena la fillette révolutionnaire", staged by an all-female Takarazuka-style cast.

The main character is Utena Tenjou, a tomboyish teenage girl who was so impressed by a kind prince in her childhood that she decided to become a prince herself (expressed in her manner of dress and personality). She attends Ohtori Academy, where she meets a student named Anthy Himemiya, a girl who is in an abusive relationship with another student. Utena fights to protect Anthy and is pulled into a series of sword duels with the members of the Student Council. Anthy is referred to as the "Rose Bride" and is given to the winner of each duel. As Anthy is thought to be the key to a coming revolution, the current champion is constantly challenged for the right to possess the Rose Bride.

While the show generally has the appearance of a magical girl series, it is also highly metaphysical, surreal, and allegorical. It contains a mix of borrowed visuals from Takarazuka theater, shadow puppetry, and classic shōjo manga.

The anime and manga were created simultaneously, but, despite some similarities, they progressed in different directions.

(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Girl_Utena)

Somehow the story is a little bit hard to understand because it is so abstract, but it keeps me want to watch over and over again these years. I guess because of the abstractness, it makes me think every time I watch it. Can't believe it is already 10 years ago when it was released! Amazing~!!