Home
Image Galleries
Wallpapers
Hammer Time
Omake
Anime Purity Test
This is a general otaku test - to do it easily, use Tab and spacebar to cycle through and select the checkboxes. Enjoy!
General Questions
* You know what otaku, anime, and manga means.
* You won't admit you're watching Japanese cartoons. It's Anime!
* If you do NOT think all anime is porn.
* If you feel anime is on the whole superior to cartoons made in any
other country.
* If you believe editing anime to put on television is a terrible idea.
...But not as bad an idea as not having it on television at all.
* If you've watched anime for 10 hours straight.
...And watched more the next day.
* If you can't go for a week without watching anime.
* If you spend over 8 hours a week doing something related to anime.
* You've seen anime before its release date for where you live.
* Watched untranslated anime.
* If you played an anime drinking game. (You don't have to use alcohol.)
* If you went to Japan to get anime.
* Went to an anime convention.
* More than a state or over 5 hours travel time to get there.
* If you belong to an anime club.
* And attend nearly all of its meetings.
* Belong to multiple anime clubs.
* Belong to an anime club that has its normal meetings over an hour away.
* If you help start an anime club.
* If you've argued over an anime story.
* If you've argued whether sub or dub is better.
* Publicly defend the artistic merit of anime.
* You learned more Japanese words from anime than from school.
* If you have taken a Japanese course to better understand anime.
* If you own a Japanese-English dictionary.
* If you've made anime related jokes.
* And someone laughed at it. (Not you.)
* If you understood someone else's anime related joke.
* If you can sing a theme song in Japanese.
* If you memorized the dialogue of an anime tape.
* In Japanese.
* Can discern a character's voice artist.
* Can approximate the date when an anime tape was made.
* You draw in an anime style. (Large eyes, strange hair styles)
* Can identify an anime characters by a signal characteristic.
(Eyes, hair style.)
* Know more about a fictional anime character than many
of your real-life acquaintances.
* Know more about certain people in the anime industry
than many of your real-life acquaintances.
* If you understood Akira without anyone trying to explain it to you.
* If you've eaten with chopsticks.
* Your normally asleep when its night time in Japan.
* If you've ever dreamed about anime.
* If you've dreamed you were an anime character.
* You've used an anime character's trademarked line in public.
* In Japanese.
* If you've dressed as an anime character.
* Of the opposite sex.
* If you want to have anime related music played at your wedding.
* React to things like an anime character.
* Answer to an anime character's name.
If you ever said something like... (and mean it.):
* Too much gratuitous nudity? Sorry, I didn't notice.
* I wish I had secret magical powers..
* You mean rocks don't normally explode?
* You got two girls/guys in love with you? That's nothing.
Computers
* If you played an anime related video game.
* If you have over 1 Meg of anime related material saved on your computer.
...Over 50 Meg.
...Over 1 Gig.
* If you searched the web for anime information.
... On parts of a series not yet released where you live.
* If you have an anime related web page.
* If you are part of an anime mailing list or check an anime newsgroup.
* If you logged on to an anime related IRC.
* If your computer has an anime related desktop theme.
* If your ICQ / AIM name is anime related.
Fan-works
* Written fan-fiction.
* Drawn fan-pictures.
* Involved in making a fan-parody.
* Involved in making a fan-translation (either video or manga).
* Involved in making an anime music video.
* Worked on an anime magazine.
* Have done short anime style animation work. (Cell or Computer)
* Worked on dozens of fan-works.
* Voted best fan-work.
* Received a favorable comment from someone involved in making the anime
you did a fan-work for.
Merchandise
* Import items direct from Japan.
* Own an anime tape.
* Own an anime LD or DVD.
...Own more anime tapes than the average video rental store.
(30+ tapes, LDs, DVDs.)
...Are you sure you don't distribute anime?
(150+ tapes, LDs, DVDs.)
* Own an at least 8 tapes from the same anime series.
* The only videos, LDs, and DVDs you collect is anime.
* Collect manga.
...In original Japanese.
* Own an original anime cell.
* Collect small anime related merchandise. (like cards,
small figurines, stickers, ect.)
* Own a Japanese music CD.
* Own models, dolls, and/or plushies of anime characters.
* Own a large anime poster.
* Own a wall scroll or anime calendar.
* Have at least five anime posters and/or wall scrolls
hanging on your wall.
* What color is my wall? (Your wall is covered with anime
posters and wall scrolls.)
* Own imported Japanese games.
... Own a Japanese video game system or converted a game
system just to play some of those games.
* Own any other anime merchandise not covered above.
* If you've spent over a thousand dollars on anime and related items.
* If you spent over a hundred dollars on a signal anime related item.
* Paid more for anime in a month than all other expenses combined.
Language
Half a point for each of the following Japanese words or phrases that you know the English meaning(s).
* Gomen Nasai
* Arigato
* Ohayou
* Konnichiwa
* Nani
* Hai
* Baka
* Hadoken
* Yatta
* Ryu
* Kawaii
* Tenshi
* Megami
* Koi
* Aoi
* Onna
* Otoko
* Shine
* Hentai
* Ichi, Ni, San..
