Ever wondered the reason why the next person beside you in class or work doesn’t get your love for 2D girls and godly giant mechas? I don’t know why either, and it’s simply because he or she just isn’t an otaku. Sucks to not be understood well by the people around, doesn’t it? Well, the solution to this is simple and in this post’s title.
Here’s how we go about doing this.
Technique 1: Recycle
If there’s a recycling area near your estate, do the people in the neighbourhood a big favour by placing some old manga like Yu-gi-oh or otaku reading material there. Hopefully, some young innocent kid happens to chance upon the treasure and brings his epic loot of the day home. That irritating kid neighbour might just turn out to be running a popular anime blog in a couple of years down the road, after powering up into Super Saiyan due to reading Dragonball like a certain Tripenile Mango Man we all know of. You never know.
The only downside is the risk of your precious reading materials actually getting sent to the recycling plant. Only attempt this if you have time to keep watch and swoop in for a save when the recycling men come for their job, or if you don’t really care about what happens.
If there isn’t a recycling area for your convenience, and you feel charitable, you can always accumulate the reading materials that you have no further use for and donate it to any orphanage. It’s always good to start young. The kids will be thanking you for making their life more interesting through the introduction of shonen-genre manga into their life. This is an all-win solution, since you get to spawn more otakus through sincere charity. Everyone benefits.
Technique 2: Be generous in gift-giving.
The birthday of a rather good friend of yours is arriving soon. You want to give him or her something, but you lack the necessary ideas of what’s good for a gift. Think no more. Head to the nearest otaku-related store and begin shopping. If your wallet’s fat, help it slim down by getting a moe bishoujo scaled figurine. If you’re on a budget, get a manga volume or a trading figurine. Either way, get the birthday boy or girl something related to otakuism, since it’s the thought that counts.
When you present your gift, there will be 2 reactions. You either get thanks and the present is accepted even though the recipient has totally no interest in anime, or criticized furiously for such a tasteless present. If the latter occurs, confiscate the present from the ungrateful chap/lass.
If the gift is accepted, 2 things will occur. The gift either gets buried in some corner of your friend’s room to forgotten for eternity, or your friend actually bothers to find out more about the series related to the gift, and in time to come evolves into an anime fan too. +1 to the population, hurray!
The only problem here is that otakus are generally selfish by nature, and you will find it hard to give away anything otaku-related. For this, you’ll have to look at the big picture and think of the future prospects of otakuism in the years to come. This time, it’s all about mind over matter. Believe in the me that believes in you!
Technique 3: Spread the love
Even if your friends aren’t the least interest in anime, the male ones have the tendency to have a interest for bishoujo games. If you take the first step in offering whatever you have, you just might have a couple of friends who will eventually grow to have the same interests as you do.
There are many more other things that you can do to enhance the number of comrades around the world, and the ones listed above are the basics to help you out if you’re really lost. In short, it’s all about creating chances for the people you come into contact with to be exposed to some form of otakuism. Once you have played your part in making the world a better place, the rest is up to Fate.
Remember how zombie outbreaks occur? For every one human infected, there’s the chance of 2 more zombie infections, and for the next 2 infected, there’s a chance for another 4 more. The chain never ends. The same logic goes for this. The possibilities to the increment of the numbers are unthinkable, it freaks the hell out of me.
Alternatively, you can think of this as preparations towards a Human Instrumentality Project. We’ll all be one, throbbing the same otaku heartbeat and processing along the same moe wavelength. Ikari Gendou would be so proud of you that he’ll disown Shinji.
Today the neighbourhood and the school, tomorrow the nation, and the day after tomorrow the entire globe!
P.S. I should really be laying off the zombie media for a bit. It’s seriously getting to my thought processes.
Can’t agree less ^^ there were only one other manga/anime fan in my class, but with her generous loaning of her manga collection to the rest, there are now 5 otakus in my class and we watch animes during breaks together
I think it’ll work with my classmates but not for the wide spectrum. Imagine trying to influence the grandma of your classmate. O_o Presents and figures won’t work for her.
But grandma will eventually die off, and otakuism will propagate. Then again, you’ll really have to count on it working on women too, otherwise humanity becomes extinct.
You do realize the increase of otaku also is the increase of retarded teenagers who destroy sakura trees during Japanese festivals right?
If it’s a rather good friend, wouldn’t I know whether he would appreciate an anime-related gift or not? o.O
@Hinano
Not if you have a good otaku mentor it won’t. Think of it as our own war on tard-terror, and we are on the right side (I hope…).
4.) Post TOUHOU HIJACK posters all over the walls.
Kaori > Pass it on!
Hynavian > True,true. The best thing to do is to work on the younger ones first. Always better to start cultivating from young for otakuism to be firmly embedded into their hearts.
Hinano, bluemist > We’ll just have to exterminate those retards by exposing their
sakura murders all over the interwebs. Rawr!
Caitlin > Buy first, think later! Most people would be inclined to accept a gift, and this creates the chance of them actually taking an interest in the gift, and eventually the otaku culture.
Nagato > Just don’t get caught.
Hahaha! I love how you compared otakuism to a zombie outbreak. I know some people who would do that too… but not in a good way ^^
+1 for Gurren Lagann reference.
I am also trying Kaori’s friend’s method of manga sharing on a classmate, so hopefully it’ll spread from there. The subject is resistant though, and needs…persuasion.
Sakari > I’m a sucker for zombie plots ^^
C.I. > Keep trying. Persistence works well in such a case.
5. Geass.
6. Show them anime and explain to them why anime is better than what you see on TV nowadays. Prison Break MUST be canceled. Every week it defied logic.
7. Walk around town with your dakimakura claiming it’s your girlfriend.
8. host free hentai/eroge games downloads.
actually, if otakuism becomes big, we may have a problem. Whilst we spread in the mutiples of 2, narutards spreads like 10000000 times faster. Imagine a world filled with narutards.
donate sperms to sperm bank
P-meister: I tale offense to that.
yeah, it would be good if anime became mainstream. lol at the zombie reference.