"SUDDENLY, WHITE GIRLS SWARM AROUND JAPANESE OTAKU"
"If you get on MySpace, the friends requests will just pour in. And they're all from 10 ~ 20 year old cute girls... but that's not because I'm good at picking up girls or anything, it's just because Japanese 'otaku' culture is popular. So even if you aren't a nerd, you can just pretend to be one and girls will buy it"
"In an instant, I got a female Jojo fan to be my penpal."
"I heard about this from my friend, so I tried it out. I made a page and wrote 'I live in Tokyo and go to Akihabara all the time because I'm an otaku.' In the interests field, I typed in 'Dragonball,' 'Higurashi,' 'Naruto,' etc., put up some anime pictures, and then wrote some bullshit like 'anime that has changed my life' and 'recent anime masterpieces.' ... So then in a week or so, a friends request! 'I'm also hooked on Higurashi, will you be my friend? I want to go to Japan someday.' I open it up... and it's an ugly bearded dude! But then the next day, I get a message from a cute 18 y.o. American girl 'Yoko' who's just graduated highschool!"
"My friend who's hooked on MySpace says he's gone on dates with 8 white otaku girls, and had sex with 4 of them."
"You may think they're separated from you by the wide sea... afterall, you can't just meet up like you can with someone from Mixi... but since they like Japan, it's not actually that uncommon for them to come over on trips and study abroad programs!"
"To American and European otaku girls, having a Japanese otaku boyfriend is a status symbol."
"2 months after creating my account, I had 6 friends, all girls... but then I discovered a keyword that would increase my friends list exponentially. Surprisingly enough, that keyword was 'Visual kei.'"
"'Do you like 'the GazettE?' I listen to them everyday' 'Do you like 'miyavi?'' Mixed in with regular otaku conversation, I was being asked these kinds of questions quite often. Of course, I had no clue who 'the GazettE' or 'miyavi' were, but upon looking them up I found out that they're indies visual kei bands..."
"Akihabara otaku + visual kei. This seemingly unrelated combination seems to be the most popular. What a strange world we live in."
"When she comes to Japan, she won't know right from left... so offer to show her around... take her to Akihabara, then to some place like Asakusa, they love places like that. After the sightseeing, go get a bite to eat. Doesn't have to be expensive, just go to a kaitenzushi place, foreign people love that. After that hit up the local yakitori joint... just keep occupied until the last train leaves. Since she's not from Japan, she won't know when the last train leaves. Offer to walk her to the station, only to be greeted by a sign 'Closed for the day.' You don't have to be Japanese to know what that means. It's a piece of cake from there. Just say 'My house is close to here, wanna come over?' This is the only English you need to memorize. Tell her you have some rare magazines and figures that they only sell in Japan, that'll seal the deal. Hell, I even had a girl tell me that she wanted to see my 'otaku room' without even having to pull the last train card."
"I'll take a shot at it! My date in Akihabara..."
"It's June, 1 in the afternoon, I'm waiting in Akihabara station. And then there she is, wearing a frilly one-piece outfit resembling some sort of decorated cake. 'Hi! A-E-TE U-RE-SHI DE-SU!!' 'Yoko's' green color-contacted eyes glisten. As my friend had told me, that strange painful form of goth-loli fashion that would look like shit on a Japanese girl actually looks decent on her, she looks like a doll. I say in my broken English, 'that's a cute outfit,' and she beams... So we walk around Akihabara, and she buys some cosplay outfits, I take her to a maid cafe, and I can hear people around us saying 'kawaii!', and someone even stops us and asks to take a picture... I feel so important walking around with her at my side."
"In the evening, we go to eat at a kaitenzushi shop, as aforementioned. I'm having some perverted fantasies while watching her clumsily stuff sushi into her little mouth, but unfortunately she tells me that today she has to go greet her host family and is off with a 'baaai!' right after we leave the shop. I told this to my friend, and he says my failure is due to a lack of research and a lack of power... to bad.... but it seems she liked me, and we have plans to meet again while she's in Japan. She's said recently in her mails that she's like to see my 'otaku room.' I have a feeling that things will go better this time..."
Those are the best parts, the rest of the article is mostly just explaining what MySpace is and why otaku culture and visual kei is popular overseas.
I personally love this article, it should bring a warm feeling of victory to any male who's ever been involved with the Western otaku fandom. Just to know that that one cute girl in your university's anime club, the one who always wears expensive imported goth-loli clothes and would never be caught dead dating a white guy, the one who was always bragging about how she's going to Japan to meet her cool Japanese boyfriend... Just to know that she's likely being played by the Japanese equivalent of a "NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER" screaming /b/tard: some asshole VIPPER who spends his days bashing Koreans online, who's not really into anime but knows enough to fake it, and who's just gonna fuck her brains out and then tell everyone on 2ch about it... It just gives one a really nice warm feeling of great justice, deep down inside, know what I mean?
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