Can’t miss Oppai Day! I’ve got 5 minutes to post this for Oppai day! Been out all day having an amazing adventure! So I’ll leave you with some delicious PVC Oppai! Btw, Oppai in Japanese is ( o Y o ) or for those who don’t understand pictures… BOOBIES!

Hope you enjoyed Oppai Day! Sorry for the blurry and dusty pictures, it was a rushed post tehe! Tomorrow is Pantsu day and I promise better photos!

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Today pokey cosplays as Yoko from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann!

Isn’t he such a cutie! Who knew Pokey loved to crossplay so much! Maybe we’ll have to find him a male cosplay for tomorrow!
See day 1: Haruhi Suzumiya

Also Pokey isn’t mine but my friend’s adorable dog!
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Silly little post, as we’ve decided that Pokey needs to become a cosplayer! Day 1? He’s being lazy with just the Haruhi headband! What would you like to see pokey cosplay as?
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In a recent article on CNNGo about why “Why it’s better to date an otaku guy.” They talk about 8 reasons why Japanese Nerds are the best boyfriends. I won’t go into a review about the article so feel free to go read it then come back. During our latest Episode of AX Live we talked about the article and our question of the week was “Would you date an otaku in the US?” While I’ll be giving an answer on air I felt that knowing my nature of rambling I won’t be able to get out everything I feel about it during such a short segment so I should write it out here for you all. It’s no secret that I date and that I’ve had a couple of boyfriends, mostly Otaku. With my Limited Dating experience I figure I should give my reasons why I’ll only date Otaku men. I’ll have to go back a few years to give examples, back to my first boyfriend, We’ll call him boy #1.

Now Boy #1 was a boy from my High School and we dated for 2 years, this was during a time that I was becoming more of an Otaku. I didn’t have too many friends who knew about anime and my older brother was feeding me more and more anime every time we spent time together which was often. It was hard on Boy #1, he didn’t understand what i was watching or the appeal, I tried to help him get into it by lending him a few different anime but he didn’t even want to try to understand. This was also a time that I was getting into Anime/J-pop music and I listened to it all the time! The last straw with Boy #1 was when I had a mix cd of different anime openings/endings and J-pop and J-rock bands, i put in the CD in my own car non-the-less and he didn’t like it, so he took the CD and threw it out the window. I was hurt and offended, this was a part of my life now, something I loved that he had no intention of trying to understand. After that I broke it off.

I realized that I was so into the realm of Otakuness that I needed someone who understood the fandom, understood that dressing up wasn’t just for Halloween anymore but could be year round at different anime conventions, that I know the lyrics to A Cruel Angel’s Thesis more than the lyrics to the latest Kanye West song. I found Boy #3, now I’m skipping boy #2 since he was Otaku enough but just a jerk all around so no need to get into that…

Now Boy #3 was an Otaku, he went to all the fun conventions, had tons of friends who were into the fandom and even did concerts singing songs in Japanese. But even still while he was an Otaku it had it’s limits. There are certain aspects of the fandom that some people get into and other’s don’t. All of us figure collectors go through it on time or another, where someone says “why are you going to spend so much money on that plastic toy?” “You could easily buy a video game for that much money!” “$800 for a doll? That’s crazy you could buy a TV for that much!” While it all might seem harmless, it starts getting you down as a figure collector.

I no longer see myself as a “Normal Otaku” I’m a “Figure Otaku.” Yes I know my Anime, my Manga, and more, but I know my figures like nobody’s business. The fine line between Want and Need is very blurred, I don’t want every Yoko figure out there, I Need every Yoko figure out there. I don’t want to complete that collection of K-on Nendoroids, I Need to complete that set. Yes it might seem crazed and like I’ve gone of the deep end, but that’s exactly it. I have gone past the point of no return, this is it, this is my life. I am Frances Delgado, Figure Collector. Boy #3 never understood that, he always put me down when it came to spending my money on figures. Things ended for different reasons but in the end I came to realize that Boy #3 wasn’t the right one because he never understood why it is that I have this collection, He never understood never tried to understand the hobby, the fandom.

It’s not just about dating an “Otaku” but finding an “Otaku” who fits you. We all know there are so many different types of us out there; the cosplayers, the musicians, the manga nuts, the dvd/bluray collectors, and more. It’s not just finding another Otaku but finding one who fits with you. I won’t jump the gun with the relationship I’m in now, but I’ll tell you that currently we seem to fit. He understand this hobby, heck he collects figures too. He doesn’t have as many as I do, and he asks me advice on whether or not he should get different figures (which i love by the way!) I adore helping people buy figures! I would love to do one day where I would take a group around the Exhibit Hall at Anime Expo and point out amazing figures and what to buy and what not to buy! Obviously if you have a specific taste we’d take that into consideration but it would be so much fun! Ok I’m getting off topic.

When it came to buying Dollfie Yoko, it took me a long time to finally get the nerve to buy her. $800 was a lot of money for me to spend, I knew that it had been over 2 years since I had first saw promotional pictures and knew i had to have her and still wanted her just as much, but my current boyfriend is the one who helped me make the leap. He was considering getting a 1/1 scale Paper Moon Ayanami Rei. But they’re $5,000 and when he saw they had a payment plan he would not stop talking about how he should do it and do the payment plan. In the end I realized, here is this guy, he adores Ayanami Rei as much as I love Yoko and is willing to spend $5,000 on her? I should be able to spend less than $1,000 on my beloved Yoko. I made the leap and set up a payment plan. Now as we all know I’m a proud parent!

So back to the article, Yes I’d say dating an Otaku guy is Great!

1. Access to an unknown world

For those otaku who are into different things, I try and find someone who is into most things I’m into, but there are always thing you may never have seen or heard of. There are so many different anime I’ve yet to see that he tells me are amazing. It’s nice to get a fresh opinion and new anime even if it’s older anime that I haven’t seen to watch!

2. Fresh date ideas

You can hang out with friends and go see anime movies in independent theaters, go to different anime conventions and meet new people. Going to cosplay gatherings, Japanese festivals in Little Tokyo.

3. Trustworthy

Now this isn’t so much otaku, because you can find untrustworthy people anywhere, I’d point out to boy #2 but then again I won’t go into that…

4. Shared obsessions

So true! When you both love something together it’s like double the love! Plus for instance, say we both love series A, and series A is actually an homage to series Z and your otaku date hasn’t seen series Z you can help them discover more awesome anime!

5. Enthusiastic conversations

You can sit around together and have in depth conversations as to why you just can’t get into Naruto and why he has to watch School Days. Why he feels that Wolf’s Rain is just so awesome and that I’m an idiot for not watching Inuyasha and that I’ll argue that Maison Ikkoku is so much better!

6. Respect for your sense of values

Again this depends on the person, even within our own otakusphere there are so many people with different values, morals, religions and more, finding someone who respects that and gets you is just simple rules of dating.

7. An expert helper

I will say with all the Otaku’s I’ve dated this is one to be true, I’m so computer retarded and most of them have been very computer smart, each one seems to get smarter than the other. Heck this site’s redesign was done by my current boyfriend. How do you like it?

8. Dependable

Once again this depends on the person, but finding someone that is dependable is always hard. Really only the current boyfriend has proven himself worthy of this title yet many men can just be douchejerks.

Of course this article is referring to Japanese Otaku and not Otaku in the rest of the world. in my experience in the rest of the world, Otaku men can be the same as regular men. Just they are into the same things you are, which is the benefit in the end. So for me, as with figure collecting, there is no going back, it’s only Otaku men who will understand me and this wonderful amazing thing we all know and love! How about you? Will you only date Otaku? Would you want someone who isn’t into anime? What are your reasons?

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So it seems my mom tried to burn the house down. Ok more like our toaster is broken and you have to prop things up against the on button for it to work, but it seems that once the phone rang she completely forgot about her English Muffin. The toaster as you can now see if pretty much destroyed so now we must go get a new one that works so that we don’t burn the house down the next time we decide to cook.

This is the charred remains of the English Muffin that was trying to kill us all. It was so weird to see that just because of this small piece of bread our house is now filled with smoke and the smoke detectors were going crazy within the entire house. At least something that was nice is that as soon as one alarm turns on all the others turn on, which is good since I’m in a pretty big house and if something is burning downstairs I’ll know about it downstairs! Well obviously we’re all safe but for now seems like we’re eating out for lunch.

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So it seems that we had a brilliant idea for a little video project but we needed a Ganguro Girl for the project. My lips are sealed as to what the video is but you’ll see what it’s for at The Indecent Otaku Comedy Show Saturday at Noon at Anime Expo this year!

The show at Anime Expo is gonna be really awesome, did you know that we even got Danny Choo to come all the way over from Japan to California just for our little show!

I know that Ganguro Girls have stickers all over their face, sadly I don’t have enough stickers just yet and I went with the only ones I had, penguin stickers!

I felt so ridicoulous in this outfit but I would love to go out in public dressed like this just to see people’s reactions.

Even put on some super crazy long nails! It was so good to get those off, was terrible to try and type or even handle my phone!

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So I’m actually really happy with this crazy outfit! I might wear this one day as a cheap easy silly cosplay one day! What our your thoughts on Ganguro fashion? It’s so silly and outrageous but in the end was really fun dressed up so silly and crazy!

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In case you haven’t heard the news on my twitter, I got Seth Green and the guys from Robot Chicken to help me rub it in on my boyfriend that he ditched me and instead of Going to Long Beach Comic Con he went to hang out with some old friends. I had tickets for him but he had plans with his friends instead. So I decided that I’ll rub it in as much as possible on what a great con he was missing out on! Best way to do this? Get Seth Green to talk to him personally about it!

This really made my day, not only was their panel really funny but they were all really nice with everyone. Here i am with the rest of the Robot Chicken crew that i could wrangle for this last picture.

Also my personalized signed badge by Seth Green, It’s obvious to see what is says and hopefully he’s right! Also quick tidbit, Seth Green ended up helping getting my boyfriend down to Comic Con since he ended up coming for Sunday! So my plan worked! Muwhahahaha!

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Miss the Show? The Wait is over! The Show is here! Check the show everyone was talking about this Anime Expo! The Indecent Otaku Comedy Hour!
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Miss out on the amazing and totally fun Indecent Otaku Comedy Hour? Well the full video should be coming out soon, but for now I’ll leave you with everyone’s favorite segment from the show! Anime-Walking! In the spirit of Jay Leno’s Jay-Walking we went to Downtown Disney to test people’s trap knowledge!

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The New Promo for The Indecent Otaku Comedy Hour! It’ll be so F*CKING AWESOME! don’t miss it! ALSO Click HERE for the UNCENSORED VERSION! (Best version IMO!)

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