My Time as a Weeaboo
I’ll be the first to admit that I had a Weeaboo faze. I will also be the first to admit that I wasn’t a closet Weeaboo, but a full blown one.
I believe it was sixth grade when it firsted started, or it could have been fifth. Its been years so I can’t really remember.
What I do remember is that I was an awful Weeaboo.
Here is a description of me in the sixth grade. Long greasy hair, horrible BO, overweight and my face was full of zits. I loved to speak broken Japanese(not this sugoi or desu shit. I never even heard of those words till a couple years ago.).
When I went to school I brought my manga with and read them in class. Whenever someone asked my why I was reading a book backward I would immediately go into my ‘vast’ knowledge of the Japanese culture, ie none.
I thought it was cool to use Japanese sentences, and I did it to seem unique. I wanted a quirk that separated me from others.
I once did a whole english project on the show Yu Yu Hakusho, which was my main anime back then. During the presentation I wore a Kimono and tried to speak some Japanese. Looking back at it now, it had to be so embarrassing. My face was full of zits, and my hair was disgusting.
When I went to a new school in seventh grade, I still wore my anime and Japanese shirts I got from Hot Topic. I dyed my hair blue and I started to get into Naruto. I would where the headbands around.
It wasn’t until eight grade/Highschool when I started to realize what I was doing wasn’t cool. Freshman year I was till obsessed with Naruto, but I only talked about and read manga at home or with my close friends. I was obsessed with yaoi and shipping characters.
My face and hair started to look better, and I was taking care of myself more.
Until the end of Senior year I left anime alone. I had more things that caught my interest. I was growing up.
Now a freshman in college, the spark of anime has returned. I’m not as bad as I had been however. I keep my fangirling locked up until I’m alone with my close friends. When I go to cons I make sure I’m well behaved. I still have this fear that when people look at me they see a weeaboo, though I have been told this isn’t true. One guy that I was talking to said he was surprised that I liked anime, as I didn’t seem the type.
:) Just remember, a lot of these weeaboos are young. Most of the time they act this way becasue they want to seem unique and don’t grasp that it is very obnoxious. Everyone grows up, and plenty of them ill be just like me. They get out of that phase, realize how embarrassing it was, but continue on with their lives.
Thank you for reading.
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