/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>6903606
I was in that picture

spent a ton of money on learn wapanese books

>>6903608
Boy do I feel sorry for you.

I was jealous of this Hinata getting hit on by my favorite hottie Sasuke, so I beat that bitch up in the bathroom

>>6903606
I tried to do Albel from Star Ocean for Halloween once.

Fucking tried to do Cloud once too.

"Original character" naruto cosplay.
No, I won't post pictures.

>Spent $200+ on stupid weeb things at my first big convention

>the cosplay things I could have done/saved for...

spent way too much costumes trying to make costumes wayyyyyy out of my league. I barely knew how to sew and was trying to make giant suits of armor and dresses and I can't count how much cash and hours were wasted...

>Danced the Hare Hare Yukai in a petstore
>Tried speaking terrible Japanese to my fencing captain who is Japanese

>>6903623
Please?

>>6903666
>666

>>6903623
Don't listen to Satan!

>>6903671
i think you need to leave

>>6903637
I beg of you. Pics, please?

>>6903680

I never had a weeab stage. I always hid my power well.

>>6903687
Hiding your power level is wrong, if you need to do that in order to not look like an idiot you have other problems.

>>6903698
>hiding your power level is wrong
>this is what Gaia actually believes

I was making a Captain Hitsugaya coat but messed up the symbol on the back, so I told people I was part of a 14th squad.

I want to go back and slap myself.

...When I was in th grade I did a book report on the first volume of Naruto. I also wore a bell around my neck as inspired by Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew. Everyone hated me because it made so much fucking noise everywhere I went.

Oh man, this is so relevant. Just two days ago my grandfather came over to visit and he brought with him a hand-made card I did for Father's Day or his birthday or something. It had a boy's love picture of Naruto and Sasuke holding hands on it and I wrote "random picture!!" along with something SuPeR eDgY written inside. Ohhhhh so much embarrassment.

I hate looking back at my weeb days.

>>6903651
I know your pain. I spent so much on brocade, quilting cotton, and shitty lace from Jo-Anns because I wanted to be a homesewn gosurori!! Now what do I do with all this shit?!

I hugged an Edward Elric cosplayer... I'm not sure if I remember asking or not, all I remember is that I hugged some random chick at AX when I was in middle school.

If you see this, I'm so ashamed and sorry.

>>6903736

In 6th grade, i wore a pair of cat ears to school everyday. i had 4 pairs with hugeass bells that made everyone hate me.
CRINGE

where do I begin. Let get the typical things out of the way. I called my friends kun, san, chan as well as character names.
me and my friends will 'pretend' that the anime guys we love lived with us and do super yaoi all the time.
we will also tell each other yaoi stories over the phone.
I always brag about how I wrote indie-manga for a japanese manga company and how I was practically a mangaka.
I used to do the naruto run during gym and called normal people 'baka'.
There was this one time at my first anime convention where me and my friend did 'pocket cam'

>>6903781
>I used to do the naruto run during gym and called normal people 'baka'.

Guilty as charged.
>sad frog.jpg

In middle school I used to teach a few friends how to say stuff like thank you and awesome in wapansese (the things I learned for anime)

I used to draw crappy anime (But people seemed to like it for some reason) Never yaoi or shit like that.

I used to wear a soul eater head band ( It only lasted 3 days cause I lost it)

That's about it. But still very very cringe worthy in my eyes.

>>6903798
Wait now that I think about it, I remember this as mostly high school.

Sorry about that.

I dressed up as Chi for Halloween back in 2005 or 2006. I was wearing a cheap maid outfit with a black long sleeve underneath, a shiny wig that I dyed pink in place of the spools in her hair, and I can't remember what else.
It was god awful and to think I wore that around my friends so proudly that night.

I guess the worst of my weeaboo days was in 10th grade. I still haven't totally grown out of it, but I've gotten better at hiding my power level. I never mention Anime or anything without someone talking about it first at least.

>wore Naruto cosplay to school once a week
>brought manga to school every day to read in class
>member of 'japanese club'
>wore Lord Orochimaru's earrings every day
>tried to have a piece of hair stick up like Edward Elric's
>refer to friends with suffixes like -chan, -kun
>have pictures of my husbando (dear old Raven from Zoids) in my locker at school
>tried to revolve class assignments around Naruto

I was never obnoxious about it in the sense that I never glomped anyone or screeched about how 'kawaii' something was, thankfully.

That summer I actually went to Japan with our school's japanese club. It was a lot of fun, but I realized then that it wasn't really a magical place where everyone talks about Anime and Manga all the time. I would like to visit again though someday.

I used to run around 'glomping' 'raeping' or 'stalking' people thinking it was a cute quirk. I wore fake neon extensions in my hair and would use xDDD and joo and o__O and rawr a lot. I also would crack jokes from stuff like the lazer collection/naruto fan flashes/brawl taunts.

I said "no da", "kawaii", and "ara" from time to time in high school. All my sketching was clearly in an anime style. Otherwise, I went through my weeaboo phase before anime actually became popular in the US so there were no other weeaboos around to encourage bad traits until I was old enough to know better.

At one point I was SO CLOSE to buying a naruto headband. Thank GOD that never happened.

>>6903814
>Glomping
I used to do that with my friends. One time in the beginning of high school my friend screamed my name name and ran over to me from across the school and glomped me. I actually fell to the ground because my backpack was so heavy that I lost my balance.
>Joo
Jesus fuck, I used to say that too along with "nya" "yesh" "teh smex"

>>6903661
>>Danced the Hare Hare Yukai in a petstore
Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsnDlWbE3d8

i once wore full neko getup to my first con...

Oh my God. So many stories.

>During screening of Endless Waltz back in 2000, screamed in rage/hate every time Relena came on the screen. Swooned every time Duo Maxwell was shown.
>In 2001, made sandwich board plastered in Tokyo Babylon scans and wore it to a con
>Same year, wore all 115 anime pins on a bootlegged El Hazard shirt
>Closet cosplayed Hikaru from Magic Knight Rayearth for an anime club, and around town too (with full on hideous party city wig)
>Made costumes out of bedsheets and odds and ends around my house that never saw the light of day
>Wore a kimono made out of satin to a classy chinese new year festival
>When the X/1999 anime finished, I cried for a week and was in legitimate mourning
>Cosplayed in a horrible homemade kimono at Disney just to eat at the nice sushi restaurant
>Sewed a laminated pouch on my backpack in college (circa 2003) where I slipped in different pics of my "bishounen of the week"
>My mom went into my compuserve email accounts back in 1999 and read through my yaoi Gundam Wing/Yu Yu Hakusho fanfiction mailing list....and banned me from email for six months

It's mortifying now, but fuck, I had so much fun back in those days, and made a lot of great friends.

>>6904097
A girl that likes gundam and yu yu hakusho?

That's...different.

>>6904106
No it's not it's pretty average for a 90's anime fan. Just stop posting.

>>6904097
I see CLAMP ruined your life as well.

>>6904106
Gundam Wing was huge with the ladies

>>6904112
It did. I...I feel closer to you now, anon.

>>6904111
>>6904113
It was?

Fuck, I'm more sheltered from this shit than I thought.

I never had a weeb stage, but I had a poser weeb stage.

In 6th grade all of my friends kind of ditched me for new groups of friends. The only ones I could still cling onto somewhat became weeaboos and joined an even larger group, so I went to Hot Topic and bought a bunch of Naruto and Inuyasha crap and wore it around, pretending to like it so they would like me. They even gave me some weeb name that I can't remember, I think it meant rabbit or hamster, with "chan" at the end.

Even though they let me sit at lunch with them, I'd still sit at the end of the lunch table, staring at my food as they'd babble in broken Japanese and hiss at each other without ever looking in my direction. For some reason I thought they were really cool and I wanted to be like them, but they barely noticed me. I remember they'd all make the noises of whatever (insert animal name)-chan they were, so I tried making the noise of my assigned animal a couple times and they pretended they didn't hear it.

And to this day, as a 20-year-old woman, I have never seen a single anime episode. I feel like I'm somehow worse than any weeaboo ever.

I had an unhealthy obsession with spyro the dragon. Claimed him as a husbando and even made my own oc to ship him with, shit was awful. I fangirled about the games in public but at least I had no idea what cosplay was

>tfw obsession shows up 8 years later as a fetish
>tfw saving money for dragon dildos

>>6904143
That feel.

I always saw this group of girls I used to be friends with go on and on about their weeb stuff and then they went goth/scene or whatever.

I always thought they were really cool.

Now I know how embarrassed I would feel today if they had been my friends.

>>6904143
>>6904154

That's just really sad...

>>6904152
Hot.

>>6904154
Are you implying that because they chose a different clothing style than you, you are better than them? I hope I'm reading that wrong.

>>6904143
>They even gave me some weeb name that I can't remember, I think it meant rabbit or hamster, with "chan" at the end.
Usagi-chan?

>>6904097
I still feel this terrible hate/rage whenever Relena comes on screen. And swoon over Duo. I just do it quietly haha

my own stories:
>joined anime club in high school because I heard this one guy who I thought was just the hottest thing ever (aka the most emo guy in our school, also five years older than me) was in it
>turns out no, he wasn't actually in it, but his friends were
>become really good friends with his friends
>never actually talked to this guy once, and then he left school
>by this point it's far too late for me and I am right in the middle of a godawful weeb phase
>yaois everywhere
>only listen to the opening themes of popular anime for a six month period
>go to first con, am mindblown
>vow to cosplay next year
>terribad closet cosplay of mello from death note
>gets hair cut just like mello's specifically for this cosplay (and it then looked like shit for a whole year)
>even worse cosplay of hidan from naruto, featuring terrible cloak, no wig, wrong headband, and a kitty hat

you have no idea how thankful I am that this was many, many years ago and no one in my cosplay community recognises me/remembers this aside from my very close friends who went through this phase right along with me

>>6904194
No, they were just those kind of girls that like what ever is popular at the time.

>>6904211
Plus they were shallow cunts anyway once I did get to know them.

As background, this was a couple years back.
>Multiple friends who were obsessed with yaoi.
>Called each other by Black Butler character names, I become Lau for some reason.
>Watch the damn show to see what the hell they're talking about.
>It's meh.
>Find out they all think it's meh too, but "teh characters"
I don't even know. Still hang out with the saner ones, most of the time they can turn the weeb off.

Man, I had a looooong weeb phase. I'd always been kind of a nerdy/imaginative/socially retarded kid, so even before I was a weeb and when I was young enough for it to be acceptable I would run around pretending to be a wolf and other stuff with my friends.
When I was a kid playing "pretend" was my favorite game everrrr. I think I used the phrase "lets pretend that..." until I was like 12.

Anyway, my highlights include:

>drawing. all the time. everywhere.
>listening to only anime songs
>watching a shit ton of anime, renting anime movies from the movie store
>convincing my mom to make cosplays for me (she still helps me sometimes when I can't figure out how to do something or when it's crunch time. This turned into a bonding thing for us, so I don't regret it)
>would spend HOURS looking at animewallpapers.com and game art
>cut my hair like some character from a video game that was drawn in kind of an anime style. It looked passable
>made up stories about my life. Some of them ranged from totally unbelievable to maybe possibly believable. Maintained they were true.
>drew digimon fan art all the time. Remember the season where they could transform into their digimon? That, but combined with the sort of naked transformations of Sailor Moon.
>at one point, asshole kids from my class looked through my art book and found all these naked people surrounded by hearts and stars and shit swirling around them covering their tiddly bits
>cried about it
>went to Hong Kong with parents, mom and dad are totally supportive of me being a super weeb so they make a plan to go to a comic convention in Hong Kong
>convinced I HAVE to cosplay
>terrible cat maid costume
>faded black t-shirt with lace sewn on the collar, black shirt, knee-high black socks with lace at the top, cat ears, tail
>literally the ONLY white person so everyone loses their shit when they see me
>tons of pictures taken of me
>take picture with HUGE group of lolitas
>stuck posing for like 10 minutes
(con't)

>>6903822

:( friend convinced me to buy one.
I didn't even really like Naruto that much, just thought it was fun to catch if it happened to be on tv.
Wore it around neck to school a couple times. Was subsequently stalked the next 2.5 years by a kid who referred to me as hinata.

I also did the bell around neck thing like others have mentioned. Although no one seemed to hate me, the bell was small and anyone who noticed just said it was cute. I think I was kind of known for wearing weird clothes though. Thigh high stockings and pleated skirts almost every day.

>>6904313

>spend hours doing anime roleplays
>read first R rated yaoi fanfic when I was 9, me and my friends giggle like crazy people over it and can barely handle ourselves
>it was a Beyblade fanfiction
>fast forward to being 12
>roleplaying all the time still
>my favorite thing about weekends is staying awake until 3AM to roleplay
>make up fake relationships I have with the ~amazing Japanese boyfriend~ everyone seems to have
>watch the ending credits of Inu Yasha and chose a random Japanese name to give him
>Takashi is a 19-year-old Japanese guy who dresses gothic and had silver hair down to his ankles
>fantastize about him constantly
>tell my cousin about ~making out~
>obsessed with the concept of ~making out~
>go to first anime con
>hug EVERYONE from every series that I like ever
>actually have a super good time
>asked people for hugs, didn't harrass anyone (as far as I know)
>had legitimate depression after the con and didn't want to do anything but go to cons
>had a terrible goth/angry person phase
>drew HUGE black designs around my eyes EVERY SINGLE DAY
>loved Linkin Park
>one day, sitting on the stairs listening to Linkin Park. A group of girls comes up to me and asks me what I'm listening to
>friend who, for some unknown reason, loved and worhsipped me, replies "she's listening to Japanese music"
>for some unknown reason correct her angrily

>lapse into horrendous visual kei phase
>always look terrible, always depressed, still roleplaying

>get into lolita
>terrible eBay dress
>spend $90 to sit at the guest table of a big name in lolita fashion
>every lolita there wanted to kill me and I don't blame them
>asked if one lolita girl was a man
>turns out she was a huge name in the community
>everyone wants to kill me
>don't blame them

A friend and I closet cosplayed Naruto and Sasuke, respectively, on a dress-up day during homecoming week in 9th grade. It actually wasn't that bad considering it was a legit reason to dress up as a "cartoon character", and no one was expecting anything well-made or completely accurate. There were actually some upper-classman animu fans that we really looked up to in awesome cosplays that day though, so looking back we probably looked like typical freshman weeaboos to them. Sadly, most of my class never grew out of the weeb phase like our grorious sempais did, and because of this anime stopped being so popular in my high school. Sad times, we ruined a beautiful thing.

I never really went full weeb. I wasn't into anime, I preferred to read manga instead. I memorised the Hare Hare Yukai but I never did the dance in public or showed it to anyone.

However, I did have a friend who would wear an akatsuki cloak to school EVERY non-uniform day we had and had the full set of Naruto head bands and would alternate between them over the course of the school day.
She also had headmates and every year would tell me she'd been reading about [insert mental illness here] on the internet and how she had "all the signs!"
She was an extremely selfish person.

>>6904199
That was probably it, but I really can't remember.

When I was in 6th grade I was Lirin from Saiyuki for Halloween. I went trick or treating with all of my normal fag neighbors who spent the whole time making fun of me.

>>6904345
>it was a Beyblade fanfiction

On a completely unrelated note, despite going to cons for the past 15 years, I've never seen beyblade shit at any con I've been to. I know it's not explosively huge in Japan, but you'd think at least one vendor somewhere would think, "Hey, exclusive, Japan-only versions of these toys! I bet fans would eat that shit up!"

>>6903729
Holy shit I know so many people who wore a bell around their neck b/c of Tokyo Mew Mew.
Looking back on that phase, why the fuck did anyone ever think that shit was cute?

>>6903687
You didn't have a weeb stage because you weren't a social awkward idiot.

>>6903729
People still hate you.

>draw shitty anime stuff at age 11-12
>full elite weeb (no popular animes, Evangelion only) on 7th and 8th grade
>studied japanese for 4 and a half years starting in 2007, freshman year
>my weebness rises at the 2 only cons I went to, dressed gothloli
>full-on Touhou fan by sophomore year
>by senior year my weeb dies down, next year I quit Japanese (not like I ever learnt anything)
>the shame my family makes me go through whenever Japan is mentioned in any conversation

God please why couldn't I have liked a more normal country like Germany or Australia.

Considering cgl is mostly female I'm expecting a lot of cringe worthy stories.

>>6904468
I know someone who has worn cat ears and bells all up to their 20's... and even still.

She will never understand that shit isn't "elegant lolita".

I watched Rozen Maiden once. My friend and I called each other Desu and Unyuu.
Oh the shame.

Uh, I'm still a weaboo. I just don't broadcast it. I read something like 100,000 words of fanfic every day, unless it's finals.
A good portion of my itunes library are anime OPs/EDs and that's mainly what I listen to in private.
I was that kid that would read manga during class in high school but who fucking cares? It's a book, and with everyone else so busy reading Twilight at the time it's not like anyone cared by that point.
I dress completely normally, look completely normal, have completely normal friends. I just happen to really like anime and shit. I think the only incriminating thing I own is an Inazuma Eleven watch that I wear sometimes if it matches my outfit. Everyone who's not my friend thinks I'm being "ironic" or a hipster or some shit with it.

I don't want to change who I am just to appease people. Yeah, I grew out of my SUGOI DESHO middle school weaboo phase by the time I hit high school, and I had some cringe-worthy moments, but I'm not gonna lie about what I like.

>>6904345
>lapse into horrendous visual kei phase
Oh god, I went through that phase in middle school. Actually went through it before my animu weeb phase, surprisingly enough. I would have pictures of J-rock bands all over my binders and would ask guys if they "think she's hot", then make fun of them for being gay because LOL THAT'S ACTUALLY A DUDE. I was a terrible person.

I am kind of proud of myself for seeing Dir en Grey as my first concert when I was twelve. One of my fondest memories to this day.

>>6904496
Yea...I'll probably never get to see any of the bands I like in person.

>>6904496
tfw I cried when Malice Mizer broke up

>>6904491
That sounds cute.

Anybody else blow like so much money at their first con on useless shit?

little major weeaboo me wishes she had all kinds of weeb stuff to wear. we didn't have a lot of extra spending money, so other than hello kitty, there wasn't much kawaii uguu~ in my wardrobe.
i did have this anime cat hat that i adored, though.

as for what i did, i mostly just drew anime OCs and gush about them if it came up in coversation. and carried around manga. i wasn't too obnoxious, i'd like to think.

>>6904504
I did. My first con i bought those crappy cosplay school uniform from the dealer room. a big dumb ugly cat bell, tails, ears, a wooden sword, pockey and those anime badges? I was too young for the yaoi paddle, but I remember trying to 'nya' the guy into letting me buy one.

In my 13/14 year old weeb phase I used to go on /y/ gather a bunch of images and then spam them to a male friend of mine who always used to get so mad about it.

>>6904504
I spent $175 on a dress I wore for barely half the day. Hasn't budged in my closet since.

I wore this infamous abomination to my elementary school graduation. To make it worse I was wearing pink OTT sweet lolita shoes and black and red plastic cat ears.

I never really went through a huge weeaboo phase, except for
>gaiaonline

I shudder to think about it...


Is anyone here brave enough to post their Gaiaonline post history? I certainly am not...

So. Many. Things. Let's see...

>I played Sailor Moon with my friends well into our middle teens.
I also got some little girls I babysat hooked on the series (they would make me pretend to be Queen Beryl when I watched them on weekends and fought over who got to be Sailor Moon).

>Made a closet cosplay of Chichiri from Fushigi Yuugi for Halloween when I was 14
Got my mom to buy me blue spray-in hair dye for that one. Made his staff out of a curtain rod and key rings.

>Called my friends ____-chan
We had made up "Japanese" versions of our names that we used.

>Wrote notes to pass to one another between classes in middle school, using really bad Japanese for greetings and random words

>Carried one of those MythWear bags until college
>Bag had Priss in her hardsuit and was covered in badges from Chobits, Trigun and WeissKreuz

>Made multiple fan sites into high school dedicated to Sailor Moon, Weiss Kreuz and Fushigi Yuugi
>Sites had next to no content other than badly traced fanart

>Learned to play Go because friends were obsessed with Hikaru no Go and I wanted to fit in

Grew out of it when I left high school. Still joined the anime club in university, but seeing the people there made me realise how embarrassingly stupid my behaviour was and caused me to tone it down considerably.

>>6904658
Elementary school? Dude, that's like what, 11? You were a kid so it probably looked cute, so whatever.

>>6904504
Yes, one of those dumb light up rave stick things.

>>6904504
Pocky. My first convention was back when you had to go to a Japanese market to get it, and the one in my city was far enough away that I could only go once every few months. So when I went to that convention, I bought a massive stash at a dealer's booth to take home. Most of it went stale before I ever opened them and got tossed out.

I wish I had a weeaboo phase, but I didn't really get into anime until I was 15, and by then I knew better. I was a little weebish for the first few months, but that's it.

I say I wish I had one because weeaboos always seem to have so much fun. If it's just an elementary/middle school thing it's harmless anyways. I'm jealous of all your cute stories of dressing up like Sailor Moon when you were 10 for Halloween and wearing cat ears and writing fanfiction with your friends....

>>6904483
>no popular anime
>only NGE

I am the filmmaker/editor of this monstrosity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdiZzqB4V7c

Now if you will excuse me I'm going back to drinking heavily.

>>6904672
Does MapleStory count? Or is that not as well known?

>>6904743
There, there love. Acceptance in the first step to recovery. It's going to be ok.

>>6904672
>gaiaonline

I'm so happy I didn't have access to the internet during my weeaboo phase.

>>6904743

>>6904752
You don't understand man, I've seen some shit.

And to make things worse my weeb friends in high school are still weebs, and the girl playing Cloud is dating literally the ugliest man on the face of the earth.

It was 6th grade and I wore this hello kitty fleece hat and I went into this gas station and in shit Japanese I was asking where the McDonalds was. I actually thought I would pass as a Japanese girl..

My best friend and I had a small weeb phase. I was dubbed as Chan-Chan and apparently I was a panda because I was Chinese. I also drew naruto all the time in middle school and gave a guy I liked a Hinata drawing. People got wind and started calling me "Scotty's stalker" for a majority of my 7th grade. That incident crushed my self esteem for months and that pretty much shut my weeaboo phase down right there and then.
I also had 2d crushes on Seto Kaiba and Gaara. And in high school, to fit in so I wouldn't be alone in Anime club, I tried to play the Hetaila-game for a while. Needless to say, I didn't play Hong Kong for very long.

>>6904672
My gaia is so old its posts somehow no longer shows up in the post history thing. This is probably good.

>be 12
>buys five triple-pack gravitation mangas
>draws hawt yaoiz and shows people
>meows
>nya
>desu
>baka
>gets told off for drawing in class
>tries to reply in japanese after class and gets detention
>has Cloud Strife/Cloud Strife shota doujinshi on school memory stick along with a bunch of softcore hentai
>maths teacher sees when I open a word document because of screenwatching to make sure we work
>pulls it up on his computer
>also comes up on my monitor
>teacher goes through Every. Single. Page.
>in direct middle of ICT room
>EVERYONE SEES
>become the filthy pervert freak until I change schools
>parents forced to put blockers on internet at home (that didn't work)
>not allowed on deviantart
>gets anyone searching "anime" or anime related things into trouble because they could be looking at porn
>first convention/expo with weeaboo ex was a disaster (but that is a tale more suited to a con horrors thread)

>somehow still have friends after all this and three years in a different school in a different town
>friends are starting to get into anime and jrpgs
>oh_god_no.png

>>6904851

DAYUMMM

>>6904851
Oh god...
>teacher goes through your hentai collection in middle of class

And I'd love to hear that con horror story.

In sixth grade I would stay up late reading manga on the internet, and my father caught me once, and the next day, he made me throw away all my manga. At the time, I had a few Shounen Jumps and volumes of Shaman King. I haven't owned any manga since.

When I was in my early teens I used to think I was edgy, wore my hair red with emo bangs due to playing way too much KOF and idolising Iori Yagami, smoked Japanese cigarette brands only, wore shit tons of eyeliner and wore anime shirts. I looked a total fucking tool and constantly dated fat weeb hambeasts due to them having yellow fever and me being half Korean descent, I claimed it was Japanese, again because I was a tool. I'm so glad I didn't go to cons back in those days and only discovered them in the past 3 years.

>more than 300 yaoi roleplays
>read yaoi fanfiction in class
>had a crush on a teacher that vaguely resembled a character I liked
>bought Kisuke's hat and everyone called me Sensei; most of them still do to this day
>said dattebayo, naniyo, matte, sakujo, demo, etc.
>wore edgy black trench coat to school every day; have since upgraded to bomber jacket
>"I'm X and you're Y"
>I was always the strongest character and no one could be my equal
>for example, I was Lord Aizen and no one could be Ichigo
>I claimed sole right to being multiple characters
>for example, I was both France and Russia
>friends "sold their soul to me" for pocky
>knew the 4kids One Piece rap by heart
>One Piece and Bleach self inserts
>searched for hentai and hard yaoi on youtube
>read those self insert fics on Quizilla
>Neopets were based on Squad 7 from Naruto
>had top ramen for almost every meal
>wore Naruto headband to school once; got in trouble since it was gang related
>weekly trips to a crappy sushi joint to fawn over the hot waiter there
>did those "What does X have on their Ipod?" things
>got into Rule 34 debates with friends to see who could gross the other person out; I usually won

>>6904783
How to say 'McDonalds' in Japanese is one of the few things I retained from four years of Japanese class, because it sounds damn weird. Macudonarudo.

>>6904851
>greentexting in third person
Confused me at first.

>>6904863
alright, I'll post it. Just give me a minute to write it all out. I'll just cover the whole relationship with my weeb ex

>>6904672
>>6904833
Most of my posts got deleted for "LOLTROLLINGS" the GD as a teen and getting the banhammer. All my cringe.

>>6904881
>the GD
Oh god. Must suppress memories.
>wanting to be a prommie

I used to call myself bai-chan and I wore my naruto headband EVERYDAY around my neck

also for spirit day I "cosplayed" as squall and used a brown marker on my face for the scar. there are no pictures thank god.

>>6904883
>Sith Lord Ali
>Pearkitten
>Miss Squirrel

Enjoy those cancerous memories with me over a plate of pancake nipples anon.

It's weird how almost all 3 of those serve as a perfect prototype for some of the batshits we bash/worship on the /cgl/ now adays.

>>6904897
>SLA
NO
NO NO NO
WHY

I'm still going through it.
>Get booked
>Produce 1 hour of original anime related Hard Dance music to showcase at event
>EDM promoters in audience
>Come on stage in Tail + Ears
>NYA NYA NYA NYAN
>Scare everyone away with 200+bpm Kawaiicore with ALL the bubbly anime vocal samples.

When will it end? I'm ashamed of myself

in 7th grade I self inserted myself into naruto RPs where I was itachi's wife and shit always got really rapey

>>6904851

(1/3)

>be 14
>they're 15
>first ever relationship
>super Naruto weebs - actually bond over anime and manga and godawful art.
>on Gaia and DA
>Sort of an ok relationship for 3-4 months

this is where things start to get kinda bad.

>pressured into sex
>"oh anon-chan you're so ka-way when you're scared"
>anon was 4'11 and 120lb
>ex was 5'10 and 240lb
>jesus christ no
>shows me Boku no Pico and is visibly drooling and enjoying it
>sends me creepy-ass texts about "inserting cylindrical objects into their dripping hole" (actual quote) and calls me "tsundere" when I say I'm creeped out and can they please stop
>"you have to be super quiet [anon's birthname] and we have to have music on because my parents are so awful and homophobic and they can't see me with a girl in my room"
>point out I'm FTM
>ex calls me their tsundere chibi loli again and uses my birthname almost constantly
>I begrudgingly fuck them to a soundtrack of "Hey There Delilah" and my birthname

this continues for more months until May of 2008

>>6904925
(2/3)

>we go to our first "convention" (actually an expo)
>plan Kingdom Hearts 2 couples cosplay of Cloud and Leon with ex
>ex has Cloud cosplay in wardrobe - I know because they insisted we have sex when they were wearing it and I call them Cloud whilst they call me Aerith
>turns up day of expo in storebought Naruto cosplay.
>I go to the bathroom and cry because my grandma and I worked so hard on my cosplay and they didn't bother even attempting Cloud
>walk around for ages
>ex squees at yaoi
>ex tries to buy hardcore porn and nearly gets kicked out of the expo
>i spend my £30 spending money on a nice wooden gunblade to complete my cosplay
>ex flips their shit because they wanted a buster sword and being their girlfriend I should have known that and bought it for them
>ex takes my food money and buys shitty balsawood buster sword

luckily ex's parents were happy to buy us lunch, even if they did tell me off for spending their child's "hard earned money" (they got £10 whenever they put their washing outside their bedroom door)

>after lunch
>ex enters masquerade
>I don't because socially awkward little shit
>ex goes on stage, attempts a cartwheel and splits open recent self-inflicted cuts on arm and leg
>BLOOD EVERYWHERE OH GOD
>ex blames judges and demands they pay for their new costume
>ex threatens an eight year old girl because they got third place
>now they're causing a huge scene and the ex's parents don't give a fuck about me freaking the everloving piss out and try to console their poor child (who's full on screeching) and tell the judges about how they're "just misunderstood" and how "the mean judges should have given their child a place"

but it doesn't end there

>>6904925
this is just really really sad and horrible

>>6904930
(3/3)

after the convention

>sleeping over at ex's house for ease
>I'm overwhelmed and freaking out again because I wanted to go home
>ex is literally self-harming right there in front of me at three in the morning
>I freak but try to console and soothe and try to get them to stop for two hours
>"THIS IS YOUR FAULT ANONCHAN YOU MADE ME ENTER THE MASQUERADE BALL YOU MADE ALL THOSE PEOPLE LAUGH AT ME"
>what
>call parents
>go home
>thank fuck

>ex breaks up with me in june at school
>oh thank fuck finally
>two weeks later, ex goes on holiday
>seven blissful days without them glaring at me
>ex comes back and seems to be ignoring me
>ex disappears for two weeks
>maybe this is the end?

nope

>3am
>knock on door
>EX HAD JUMPED OUT OF THEIR BEDROOM WINDOW AND WALKED THREE MILES IN THEIR PYJAMAS AND SOCKS BECAUSE "THEY WANTED TO SEE ME" AND THEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ROMANTIC
>COVERED IN SCRAPES AND BRUISES
>NOPE FUCKING NOPE
>STOP
>THIS IS WAY TOO CREEPY
>parents lock me in front room with ex and make me tell them to fuck off
>ex's parents come pick them up and vaguely chastise them
>complains to my parents that they didn't let ex stay overnight and woke them up
>parents bluntly tell them to go fuck themselves
>almost never see ex again

I'm a lot better and less freaked-out at conventions now, and I still see ex at said conventions because of mutual friends. They give me those "you TOTALLY fucked up my life" death glares every time we pass and are apparently FTM themselves now haha. There's definitely lasting damage from that relationship on my end - I still can't listen to "Hey there Delilah" without bursting into tears - but I'm getting better with the whole thing with relationships and sex.

pic related - it's their Naruto cosplay from about two years after this whole incident.

>>6904933
fucking CHRIST
I'm glad youre getting better with everything! Your ex sounds just fucking abysmal

>>6904909
IT WILL NEVER END!
Also, nice Pioneers!

>>6904933
I just want to hug all of your bad memories away.

I'm glad you got out of that relationship.

>>6904106
nope. no it's not.

not really weeby but generally nerdy/embarrassing
I had an elfwood account filled with my terrible art of oc elf princesses. I had forgotten about it (an moved to deviant art), then years later I googled myself and it was still the first result. I had to jump through a few hoops to get back into the email I had set it up with in order to close it.

I wish I was on my parents old home computer so I could show you some of them.

>>6904933

Jesus Christ

>11 yrs old
>gaia art shop
>neopet guilds
>harem of anime husbands
>wore an inuyasha necklace and would fall anytime someone said 'sit'
>print out b&w lowres fanart to tape to every wall of my room
>buy every single shounen jump from blockbuster

... i stared into the abyss and the abyss stared back

Oh god.

>Make own Sailor Moon OC.
>LowRes Black and white Print out of Sailor Moon Colour Manga spreads
>Eat everything with chopsticks, EVERYTHING.
^ Sadly to say when I eat with my BF's Chinese Parents they complement me on being able to use chopsticks. I dare not admit it's from my weeb days,
>Neopets
>Account full of Krawks
>Only listen to Japanese Music

>>6903815
Oh gods, I went through the 'no da' phase in high school. I would seriously put that after almost every sentence. I also did "^_^" and "xD" in a lot of my school notes. My teachers must of thought i was insane.

My worst violation though was in 9th grade I did a school assignment about 'make up your own myth about good versus evil' and did something about a mountain and a phoenix. Most of it was in terrible Japanese-- and i even brought in my DBZ action figures for the diarama. Yeah, i did this in front of my entire class. ... Oh those days are so behind me.

>>6904345
>>spend hours doing anime roleplays
>>read first R rated yaoi fanfic when I was 9, me and my friends giggle like crazy people over it and can barely handle ourselves
>>it was a Beyblade fanfiction
>>fast forward to being 12
>>roleplaying all the time still
>>my favorite thing about weekends is staying awake until 3AM to roleplay
>>make up fake relationships I have with the ~amazing Japanese boyfriend~ everyone seems to have


Holy fuck, are you me, anon? My first yaoi fanfic was at 11/12. It was Yu Yu Hakusho's Hiei and Kurama, but everything else here is pretty much the same. I had literally no social life because i would spend all my time after school and weekends roleplaying on yahoo chat or AIM

>>6904495
I like you.

I'm the same. I'm more mature and less OMG THIS IS SO KAWAII DESU now in my late 20's, but i still love anime and manga and don't feel ashamed of saying i do.

>>6904897
>>6904899
Ugh, i dont get why people thought she was a boy.

What is she up to now?

>Made self-insert Sailor Moon OC's of self and friends
>Drew manga stories of the OC's doing KEWL THINGS LIEK SAVING DA WURLD!!!111!!!
>Had an anime binder filled with pictures I printed out and showed off to my friends
>Went to Suncoast and bought all the weeb merch
>Hid power level the first 2 years of high school but let them come back as an upperclassman
>Went to first con with a shitty cosplay and took it upon myself to hug everyone there and greeting everyone with KONNICHIWA!~
>Had a few shitty cosplays until my friends helped me get my act together

Now here I am. Still an anime fan but definitely more mature. Still cosplay and cosplay quality is a lot better but still nowhere near god tier.

My shame is unfortunately on the tubes for all to see. Babby's first con, talked into crossplaying because "anon is so tall! and this character isn't even masculine!" I've long since given the costume away to a friend's kid who looks hilariously tiny in it.
>youtube.com/watch?v=BToHqFhfghk&feature=share&list=FLiE1133rD3K0J-ESWFCB3hw

>>6904933
I see so many of these stories where it's relationships where anons wanted to get out of but were pressured into staying by some manipulative, emotional bitch (I've been in one, too, he cosplayed L, spat in my face, asked me to staple my eye, and our first time having sex was behind some bushes at 1 am in front of our old middle school because he called me over because he thought he was going insane)

I wonder if it's a /cgl/ thing?

>>6904933
I'm glad all that is over with anon! You deserve better than that load of crap!

>>6905044
I did GaiaOnline art commissions for gold. Those were the days. Now the economy is crazy inflated there i heard.

My weeb stage... Oh my weeb stage...

It started off harmless
>watching .hack//
>drawing characters

Then went to average weeb
>wear naruto headband to school
>everything's so "kawaiiiiiii~"

Devolve into (mostly after getting encouraged by a boyfriend at the time)
>yaoiyaoiyaoiyaoi
>make a deathnote and try to perform some weird fake ritual on it so it will work
>tell off a guy at school and give him a long-winded gory soliloquy of all the ways I could kill him
>after said soliloquy, laugh "Just like Light~~~~ desu desu"
It started in 5th grade and ended in ninth.
But I think it got bad because I was using it as a coping mechanism for sexual abuse.

Now I'm definitely less loud and proud and... Well... Crazy about what I like and dislike.

I regularly wore a naruto headband to school... everyday.. mfw now

>>6904851

I've got one for ya. Not as bad as your doujinshi story, but...

>Purchase Phoenix Wright/Edgeworth doujinshi
>The entire thing is about Phoenix's dick being a giant cartoon dragon with a face and having this constant hankering to bust up Edgeworth's ass.
>Bring it to school sophomore year
>Friend wants to see it for a second time while we're working on a group project. See: She's not doing anything since I've just about finished the assignment singlehandedly. All good.
>She puts it on the table and pulls me aside to take a webcam picture on her laptop.
>Super Mormon teacher picks it up. Super. Mormon.
>He's reading it backwards, so it's all sex scenes first.
>He's talking about how... interesting the story is and he's talking out loud around the class about how he can't figure out why this man's dick has a face on it.

>End of year, English class
>everyone required to do a presentation on a book
>any book at all
>I chose the newly released Haruhi novel
>ordered the cheapest ebay haruhi cosplay i could find
>make my own headband out of the shiniest ribbon ever and hotglue
>put it in my own hair with no wig
>dance the Hare Hare Yukai in front of my English class
>Wear the shitty ribbon for the last few days of the year, last day of school wear the shitty cosplay again

why

I passed the final though

I wanted to be the very best, like no one ever was

My weeaboo phase wasn't too bad, but still there. I am a quiet and shy person so fortunatley I was also that as a weeb.
>get really into deathnote
>wear blue jeans and white long sleeve almost everyday (washed, granted)
>pile on black eyeliner under my eyes like the dark circles L had
>already have greasy dark brown short hair (i only showered like once every week or two, i was a gross kid)
>go to school everyday and sit in the chairs like L
>go home everyday and sit in chairs/couches like L
>just generally be creepy-looking
That's really it. After a year or two of that, I was pretty normal. Thankfully, I was 11/12 years old at the time so I was young enough to be able to grow out of it quickly.
I also tried to sleep sitting up like L, but never could manage.

>>6905477
I wore a sound village headband like Sakura wears hers, but everyone just thought I liked music.

>>6903606
Tiny weeb story
>Go to the bank to sort out some account details
>"Confirm the last 3 letters of your postcode"
>yep
>"What was your first school?"
>yep
>"What is your mothers maiden name?"
>yep
>"What special name did you list when registering this account?"
>oh fuck what
>Wrack brain for what 13 year old me would have said and come up blank
>Bank employee eventually changes it for me
>"Would you like to know the name you originally listed?"
>sure why not
>"Soubi, does that ring any bells?"
>13 year old weeb past flashes before my eyes, I leave the bank later with my pride in tatters

>>6905574
>tfw I still do

Don't give up on your dreams ;_;

Honestly I am more of a weeaboo now then I was in High school. I never dressed up at school or went to cons. I hung out with normal people. My closer friends knew I liked it and they would sometimes borrow my manga and give it a shot if it was something they would like. Pretty normal.
Now I moved away from them and I spend my days on G+ with a group from cgl discussing anime, manga, and weeb shit everyday. We started saying stuff like "kawaii" ironically but pretty soon we just started saying it. Not in a high pitch voice or anything but it's still weeby.
I started cosplaying with them and watching more anime.
I am very happy and it releases all the weeb so I can function as a normal human outside.

I have a Mew Ichigo cosplay made from a blanket and a tutu. I keep it in a shoebox to remind me never to go back to those dark days

>>6903729
>>6904468
>>6904478

I still have my bell.... I'm not proud

>like seriously learn Japanese, anki'n up the place, penpals in all the fucking prefectures, old ladies happy to spread grorious nippon buying me awesome tea from sinzyuku
>almost go on rotc exchange to japan, they can't place me, and nothing of value was lost
>gets tedious, never use it, ever again, except to watch animus
>at least I had my power level sorta, said it was all because I liked jdramas (I did, but...)
>never even set foot in japan, still never use it, wish I had learned a better language

>>6903781
....
Holy fuck are you me?

I had this big yellow/gold ribbon that I hot glued to a headband and wore like Haruhi Suzumiya. It honestly wasn't too terrible, but you could see the hot-glue through the ribbon, plus it was fraying all over the place.

Also, when I got into Hetalia with a friend of mine, we did that thing where you nickname people after countries, except no one else cared to get into the anime, so we kind of forced it on others. A lot of people either didn't get it or didn't want to be whatever country we named them. Really annoying, now that I look back on it.

Both of those happened in 10th grade. Everything else I did wasn't as bad, in terms of what others saw/knew.

>>6904495
This is me pretty much. Mostly since I still like wearing my cat hat in winter still. And the general public seems to like it so eh.

I used to wear a Trigun trenchcoat in middle/high school. Also cat-ear hats along with the usual bad mall goth style. Oh, and the ubiquitous Leaf Village headband either on my head or around my neck.

Thankfully, my clothes were the worst of it. I didn't have many weeaboo friends and I've always been an introvert, so I wasn't obnoxiously loud or overly touchy-feely, thank FSM.

>>6904495
Most people in the thread are probably the same, but too edgy to actually admit it. Nothing wrong with having geeky interests as long as your power level is well controlled.

I guess this is probably as good a thread as any to ask. Would it be possible for somebody who isn't a total weeb to cosplay say, Sakura/Hinata/Naruto/ to a con? By that I mean, will I get mocked/ridiculed/judged? And would I encounter any sane Naruto fan? I really don't even watch the series anymore, but I've always had a dream of cosplaying one of my favorite characters of it, and I may as well do it eventually. What would you guys think if you saw a well-executed and nicely-made Naruto character cosplay? I have second thoughts, but I really want to do it.

>>6904495
Mm, I consider a weaboo to be if you're terrible at hiding your power levels. Of course we all still like anime and shit, we're just not as obnoxious about it as we used to be.

>>6905677
I think the fandom's toned down a bit... but didn't it get riled back up again....

I don't know. A lot of people still appreciate Naruto. As long as you're not a weeb about it, no one will give you crap. And you can just walk away from the weird ones that try to latch onto you.

>>6905677
Same. There are some characters I really want to cosplay, but at the time same time, I dislike the fandom... I'm sure there are some saner Naruto fans though, and no one would shit on you for wearing the cosplay (it's more the general Naruto speshul snowflake weeb attitude that everyone stays away from).

>>6905677
Eh wanna cosplay this fan design of hinata next year.

Don't really care what other's think, you shouldn't ether if you know how to present yourself. So go for it.

I blocked out most of my weeb days. But there are some noteable things that come to mind. Like spending an entire school day saying nothing but the word "oro". Thank god I wasn't called on. And then there was the matter of getting expelled over what the administration thought was a Gundam Wing inspired hit list....

>>6905739
> "oro"
Yes. This. I still say "eto" sometimes, from habit.

>>6904496
>I am kind of proud of myself for seeing Dir en Grey as my first concert when I was twelve. One of my fondest memories to this day.

Same, except I was 14. Would have seen them at 12 but I got ditched.

>mfw they're never coming back thanks to sun-krad

>>6905743

oops, dropped my face

>This

Actually wasn't -that- long ago. I've been to... Three ish cons before taking this? On my DA I just set it to closet cosplay, but holy fuck I was terrible. I was really into werewolves and a bit into vampires before the whole Twilight craze came around. During the whole year while I was 12 the only thing on my mind was werewolves and like I did some pretty fucking stupid and crazy shit back then for all of that. Glad I grew out of that...

>>6906034
Is that he thing from MarbleHornets?

>>6906034
Is that the thing from MarbleHornets?

>>6906059
Actually, yeah. Lol.

>>6906034
For the idea, GLORIOUS. But where are my Suttonchops?

I wasn't a weeb, I was a scary yaoi/hentai creeper. My friends and I created an entire world of fictional characters that were fucking/raping each other, got a few half decent artists to draw pinups of our characters, and then put them on our school folders.

We cosplayed from Enzai.

I just... it was so bad.

I mean yeah I still have a huge stack of yaoi/hentai games/manga/anime but I keep it in a fucking set of boxes under my bed, not taped on my goddamn school folders.

>>6905579

Ahahaha that's glorious. I read the first seven or eight volumes of that goddamn series before I realized I STILL had no fucking clue what was happening and I gave up in disgust.

>>6906101
Damnit.. Forgot pic.

>>6906078
I was actually trying to do a genderbend Totheark, but just... Just no. Really glad I never wore this off to a con.

>>6903781
oh my fucking god that naruto run

>>6906104
You're cute.

Also, nice lucky bamboo plant.

>>6906101
but but it's not confirmed that Masky IS totheark...or really who the fuck totheark is. Yeah, it is quite....Just no.

>>6904897
I wanted to bang SLA. God I was a dumb kid.

>>6906167
Masky is a nick name for Totheark, silly goose. In the later episodes it reveals that Tim is Totheark. There's a theory though that there's a shit ton of Tothearks though and that Tim was just one of 'em.
>Oh god my weaboo is showing make it stop, make it stop

Wore a naruto headband to Ikea and did idiotic things once, which is like one of many things I wish everyone forgets forever. Including me, I'm trying to not talk or mention any of it ever.

I was so fucking goddamn awkward yet I never ever got any hate. I'm so embarrassed about my past now, even though it was pretty tame compared to most people... I guess it helped that I was skinny and I took care of myself and my hygiene - and that most of my friends also were awkward nerds.

Oh god I was disgusting

Groped people at cons, demanded my friends call me "(my name)-sama", etc etc. I had some serious anger issues too and I would hit and push and kick people too (I didn't know exactly what a tsundere was but I was still trying to emulate it). That died off freshman year of high school, though. Every day I am forever grateful I didn't have a shitload of anime merch then because I would have worn it to school every day.

>mfw when i have that merch now

>>6906291
>Groped people at cons
Guys, girls, or both?

>>6906338
Girls, usually. I thought it was all good fun and I thought it was hilarious to see who at the meetup was crossplaying but looking back on it I sort of want to kill 12 year old me

>>6906291

Good thing thank god. I fucking hate angry weebs. I know one who broke a mutual friend's ankle by kicking it repeatedly.

As for me:
>giant as fuck weeb
>worshipped FMA for three years. I don't regret it, but I do regret all the alchemy shit I pasted all over that made me look like a 2edgy4u satanist
>would 'learn' Japanese and repeat phrases ad nauseum to show off
>showed off my sexually explicit violent manga (notably X and Angel Sanctuary) to everyone. Again, 2edgy4u
>dressed in baggy jeans and anime tees
>got together with a loud weeb group that almost destroyed my high school reputation, teachers included
>repeatedly got into trouble after school for generally acting like retards and running after each other in the library where we held anime club

I can't remember much more at the moment, but maybe later when I'm not so sleepy.

>>6905504
>teacher seriously critiquing insane fetish porn in public
He sounds awesome.

Holy fuck, I was one of those people holding a 'Free Glomps!' sign around... I remember my first con I was literally keeping count and I was around 50ish. I remember I fucking tackled this one black guy and he fell to the ground and I felt so bad afterwards and just....


>Why

>>6905677
It has to look really good, though.

oh...my middle school weeaboo days were so bad i've blocked most of it out..
i still like manga and jpop idol groups/dance groups but i dont really discuss it with anyone so my power level is pretty hidden.
BUT MY FAMILY REFUSES TO FUCKING FORGET.
>20 yrs old, haven't mentioned weeaboo things in 6 years
>living with aunt and looking at stores in a mall with my cousin
>aunt walks by
>"ohhh i know [anon] would LOVE that store
>expecting forever21/h&m
>"sanraku japan"
>shes so proud for seeing that and pointing it out
>"u-umm....thats a food court store..."
i love that she was suggesting a store i might like.
but please family members....forget my weeaboo phase like i try to..

>>6903813

> Wearing Orochimaru's earrings

I'm still guilty of that. They look good when I have my hair pulled up. It's a subtle nod to the fandom, I think, but still tasteful.

I don't think I ever had a bad phase other than when I first got into anime club...soooo much squeeing in that room...I have no regrets though. My cosplay group mostly came from that club.

Let's think here... Two things come to mind.

1.
>I spent quite a bit of money on manga, but only one series.

2.
>I tried to be more 'expressive' based on what I read or saw in books and anime movies. I didn't make (^_^) type faces, but my reaction to different situations basically.

But ever since I graduated from High School (2007) I dropped all my anime habits for some reason.

>>6905113
what was it a cosplay of?

>tfw never had a weeb phase
>have horror stories of having attended high school's anime club

Do you guys wanna hear?

>>6906792
Of fucking course.


Go on.

>>6906792

My weeb phase wasn't bad because the weeby anime club president hated my guts and honestly I started to dislike some anime a little bit just because I knew that bitch liked them. As petty as it is. She really didn't like me and she didn't make my time in that club enjoyable.
To this day I still refuse to watch Fruits Basket because it reminds me of her, and I didn't watch my first Studio Ghibli movie until a few years ago. Hated Naruto too, but maybe that was good since it kept me away from the headband craze.

Some weeby things I did though:
>ran like Rikku from FFX-2 in gym class
>bought pork fried rice from the Chinese restaurant in town and brought it to the anime club potluck claiming I somehow made it myself
>traced anime characters my freshman year from DA and Elfwood (like everyone else) and claimed my uber awesome drawing skillz
>wore anime hoodies to school
>made some weeby friends and we'd all yell obscenities in the hallways and glomp and grope each other

>>6904658
>first day of highschool
>see girl wearing this for picture day
>she turns out to be friend of a friend
>say hi nervously
>later she turns out to be a bitch
>shiggidy diggidy

it never occured to me to trace anime for some reason
so i spent years honing my art skills until i could almost perfectly replicate characters like princess ai
until one day i moved on and started doing non-anime original art because fuck my weeaboo phase
feelsgoodman

Ok so I was never really super into anime back when I was 12-14, I was more invested in video games. However, I had a lot of weeb friends and I picked up their mannerisms.
So
>be 13
>be absolutely obsessed with Silent Hill
>make a shitty plushie of the dog from the dog ending, carry it around in my backpack to school every day
>have an unhealthy fixation on Pyramid Head and Henry
>draw shitty anime-esque softcore porn of them all the time
>draw said softcore porn in English class
>write self-insert fic of me and Henry
>sleep with a copy of Silent Hill 2, 3, and 4 under my pillow and my dog plushie every night
>have a giant dolphin plushie that i put shirts on and cuddle and pretend its Henry every night
>use xDDDDD in every sentence I type
>draw my friends as Silent Hill monsters
>draw the Halo of the Sun in red sharpie in bathroom stall

There's lots more but I'm having a hard time remembering it all.

Oh god where do I start

>I had a Naruto OC
>that I wrote insert fanfictions with
>Shopping at Hot Topic
>wearing a bell like Ichigo from Bleach
>ran like girls in animu, completely unironically
>called people baka
>wore cat ears to school and said nya after every sentence once
>watched yaoi constantly
>used the word "glomp" constantly
>called self an otaku
>only watched like 5 shows
>answering the phone with moshi moshi

I'm embarrassed just writing this. Weeb self why do you do this.

>>6907138
>Ichigo from Bleach
Did I really just do that.
Tokyo Mew Mew

>>6906792
>Discovered 4chan in freshman year, find /fit/ and start lifting halfway through the year
>Get involved in athletics, big player on sports teams, doing my squats, rippetoe would be proud
>Some guy on the rugby team with me watches a whole lot of anime, likes to talk about fist of the north star all the time and has this weird thing where he goes up to people and punches them, puts them in strangleholds from behind, etc

Fast forward 2 years, junior year
>In weight room, just finished doin' muh deadliftz
>weab from rugby team is in there, talking a whole lot of shit about how much he wants to lift, how strong he is, etc
>I decide to mention to him that I actually watch a whole lot of anime because why not
>His jaw drops, it is not common knowledge
>He exclaims that it's rare to find "athletic otakus"

I have never heard something so awkward in person before to this day. I cringed harder than I ever have that day.

I ended up going to the anime club a couple of times as well, to see if there was anyone my age that shared my interests with some level of sanity.

i've literally been interested in anime/manga/video games since i can remember, starting with pokemon when i was around 4 or 5, and sailor moon a bit later. so i guess i've been a weeb for the entirety of my life. that being said, it's really hard to remember anything particularly painful. i think i've done just about everything that anyone mentioned.
thankfully i never groped anyone/scarred anyone for life and i only did the whole "nyaa" phase for like 6 months when i was really into digi charat.

>>6907151
>Start going to anime club meetings over the course of a month
>Thursdays
>Besides the weird first of the north star dude, there were a few other people not worth mentioning, and in this particular story a tiny asian loli girl and a really short, really ugly white dude that dressed like a stereotypical hipster completely unironically.

Basically, what happened is that over the spawn of like two meetings the weird loli girl develops a crush on me while the short white kid grows more and more jealous. The third time I showed up, shit went down.

>White guy announces in front of the whole group that he wants to fight me for the loli girl whom I had no idea at that point had a crush on me
>Wants to fight for her love
>Nigga what the fuck are you smoking
>She insists that I fight for her
>I seriously consider doing it just for shits and giggles, but then remember how bad it would look; The five-foot nine, 180 lb athlete vs. the five foot three-ish twig of a human being
>Regardless of provocation, I'd end up looking like the aggressor in the situation
>Turn 360 degrees and walk away from the club

I'm pretty sure all of them are still fucking crazy; I know one of those guys is a brony because of the fanart/fics that he puts up on facebook. Shoulda come to this board back then, I would have read the horror stories here and know to stay the fuck away from the anime club.

I was way too shy to weeb out in public, but I did write a ton of awful self-insert fanfics on quizilla, that actually ended up getting kind of popular. Which freaked me out and I deleted everything...

>>6904772
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdiZzqB4V7c
this is...amazing. I love you

>>6903772
... I might have known you.

I never got to go through a weab phase, my one friend with similar interests moved away at the beginning of eighth grade and I lost most of my interest (It has picked up again after graduating high school).

Here's the situation I find myself in now:
>Going into second year university in a new city, still haven't really made any friends/done anything besides sit in my room.
>Don't really have any hobbies/social skills, am not particularly interesting, have no clue how to meet people.

Do I go to my university's anime club? I want to get involved/do something social and that seems like an easy way.

>>6907211
I did that and I actually don't regret it. Sure there are the token obnoxious weaboos, but I've met a few cool people and I've become a bit less socially retarded as a result.

>>6907211
I did it and my club is full of fun of people and haven't met any weebs. Though I think they tend to get weeded out after two meetings and end up going to the umbrella "nerd" club.

>what were some embarrassing things you wore/did?
I...was president of my school's anime club? I never had an ZOMG ANIME IS THE BEST EVAR stage where I was some tard. I acted stupid, yes, but most kids in the 10-13 age range all do. I do recall learning wapanese dances and using them for our finals in my dance classes at school. We were supposed to make up and choreograph our own dances, but I figured since I only had one friend in that class that knew about animu, the normalfags would be like amazed or some shit and not know that I just learned them from youtube tutorial videos. Looking at all the recordings of those, I highly regret ever doing that shit. If I could go back in time, I'd slap myself and actually make something up versus trying to seem ultra kawaii.

I think doing all those selca posts that the Japanese girls constantly did was perhaps my only embarrassment.

Was obsessed with Yami no Matsui in middle school and my dad had a coat like pic related and I wore it to school once. It was obviously too big.
>friends and I made our own "otaku" forum
>Making closplays and taking tons of pictures and videos
>Shitty yaoi roleplays on AIM
I was generally pretty tame, only standing out every so often, but I would let my power level out a bit more at cons.

I think this photo speaks for itself.

Generally convinced myself that Japan was the pinnacle of humanity, a testament to paragon ideals and the chance to become the gods we've been striving to be for since the dawn of mankind.

>>6906086
I quit when updates became sparse and nothing but filler chapters, I still keep finding random knock off merch and my shitty drawings all around my room

>>6906080
>Enzai cosplay
d-do you have photos? This sounds hilarious

>>6907889
sweet jesus did you wear this outside?

>>6907917
I wore it outside.

What makes a weeb, guys? What are the typical weeb attributes? Because I think I have some stories to share.

>>6907926
oh my god

I did typical shit on top of some really horrendous shit.

>Was obsessed with Naruto
>Wore the headbands to school
>Had tons of bishie husbands
>Yami Marik/Malik was mine 5ever and I got aggressive when anyone even mentioned liking him
>Wore fox ears and a tail to school with my best friend
>Would squeal over stupid stuff but only in private
>Would glomp people but only people I knew
>I had self insert character for every show I watched
>Spoke to people in broken Japanese
>Was totally a goff baby bat
>Wore my hair like Deidara's for the longest time and even bleached it
>Wrote terrible fanfiction with my best friend
>Roleplayed our fanfiction

The only thing I wasn't guilty of was being obsessed with Yaoi.

I fell for some one my Sister's friends who was Korean and wrote them a story with broken Korean inside and numerous references to anime and manga. It included a scene where Excel from Excel Saga fell in love with an OC, who was written suspiciously to have a personality like my own. The OC had a long edgy speech about how he couldn't feel love.

I think the weebiest things I've ever done was
> halfheartedly roleplay stupid KH bullshit on Neopets
>wear cat ears one day for spirit week
>wear the same fucking Fruits Basket shirt on a certain day of the week
>talk about Fist of the North Star, Power Rangers and Kamen Rider with other dudes at school
>Read and purchase every single Shonen Jump magazine from the first issue because it had the Yu-gi-oh comic in it
>openly claimed Vergil from Devil May Cry as my husbando in front of a crowd of complete strangers and explained why he is awesome due to some faggot who spiked the drinks because LOL UNDERAGE DRINKING

Pretty tame since it wasn't some completely fujoshit taste that I had thanks to growing up with male cousins and my brother.

I dunno if this shit coutns as being a weeab but...
Back throughout middle school and through my first two years of HIgh School, I would

>Bring manga to school, like almost every damn day
>Write horribly written and shitty fanfiction. Hell, I just typed in my old FF.net account on Google, crossing my finger and hoping there will be no results. Shhhhiiiiit
>Try to pretend I know Japanese, because of what I saw in anime and manga and video games
>Play nothing but anime music on my violin and piano (I still do, but just rarely and only at cons or if I'm fuckin' straight out bored.)
>Use anime as a reference in my reports.

So, can somebody make a time manchine for me so I can beat the living utter shit out of my past self?

I never had a weeb stage. Sailor Moon aired when I was in high-school, so I never realized that anime was japanese untill then and then I was already too "mature" to engage in weeabooism. In fact, I was an hipster, before the categorization existed like it does nowadays. Spent my days writing poetry and erotic fanfictions (of the anime back then, and of Power Rangers too), smoking and being overall depressed.

>>6907979
>erotic Power Rangers fanfiction
HAHAHA OH MY GOD THAT IS BRILLIANT

I...I got lucky. I didn't really get into anime until I was old enough to not be horrifically obnoxious about it.

I still post on online roleplaying boards, mostly because the playerbase have all become incredibly close friends over the years and we spend as much time vidyaing and just shooting the shit as anything else. And I still get MAD HYPE about upcoming cons and cosplay.

>>6907997
>the playerbast have all become completely close friends
>that feel

I spent 6 years on the internet with my bros until we all decided it would be better to disband. It was a weird experience.

>was an office TA in middle school
>wore cat ears
>gets called into the principals office
>"take those off, you could be in a gang"
>principal was kind of a dick in general but was in the right for getting me to not look like such an obvious weeb
>"WAT NO I'M 2EDGY4U"
>continued to be 2edgy4lyfe until the middle of high school sans the cat ears

>book reports on manga
>"no really I read that many real books! I LOVE READING!"
>book report on love hina 1-6
>6 BOOK REPORTS

>get to high school
>nartuo headbands all day erryday
>someone writes a letter to the school news paper about weebs "stealing their culture" (aka stealing their animu)
>writes a letter in reply
>"LOLWAT U LIVE IN MERICA LOLOLOL WE CAN LIEK ANIMU IF WE LIEK BAKA. STOP INSULTING MY WEEB FRIENDS."

>no gaiz hetalia teaches you history better than school.

I'm just glad I never got into yaoi tbh....

>>6903661
I feel your pain, I danced to it in the middle of a supermarket one time.

Nah. I kept my weeb power level a secret.

Meanwhile, my friends in highschool would cosplay as Naruto and Sasuke. Walked into the commons for lunch to see them making out and shooting a "cosplay-video"
I noped the fuck out of there. They really gave no fucks, even read yaoi in the middle of class and all that.

>>6903811
Found the picture. Enjoy.

>>6905741
I did this to the point that my history teacher told me to stop because I wasn't Japanese

I showed my family an episode of Lucky Star and explained to them what Hatsune Miku was saying it was "epic". Never again.

>>6904097
>Tokyo Babylon
Oh Jesus I'd forgotten about that. It completely destroyed my 12 year old yaoi fangirl mind when I first read it.

>"Awww, Seishirou and Subaru are so cute togeth-OH JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK"

>>6908305
It was great, holy shit. Because of Tokyo Babylon, I got into darker manga. And it was a fresh thing to see that everything didn't actually turn out okay.

>>6906479
I know your pain, man.

I've been out of the Sonic series for 5 years now and my mom still loudly points out things from it to me. My sister, too.
God, I hope they don't think I'm a furry.

>>6908305

God that manga along with X is still so epic and tragic in my mind. My heart still gets pangs 12 years later. Gahhhh so tragic.

I am forever in mourning about X never ever being released because of the earthquakes. Don't get me wrong - I understand and respect it, it's just too uncomfortable for most Japanese, but doesn't make me any happier I suppose.

Yeah, I'm still a yaoi weaboo.

>>6908343

>tfw you're 18 and your mother gets you a Sonic hat.

>Then takes pictures.

>Then posts them online.

>When you've first woken up.

>With no make-up on.


Kill me.

>be 13
>be weeaboo and a bit of a wolfaboo/dogaboo
>become obsessed with a shitty 80s anime about dogs called Ginga Nagareboshi Gin
>make shitty tails and ears an say I'm cosplaying gijinka version of the characters
>make shitty AMVs of it to power metal songs

>one time when I'm watching it my mom asks what cartoon it is
>snap at her "How dare you call it a cartoon! It is an anime with very serious and deep themes not found in western cartoons!"
>mom just laughs and walks away

I had the attitude of a weeb but I didn't watch anime at that point. Wore "2edgy4u" clothes and crayola makeup and typed in a "lolrandom" style.

>>6908501
I liked that show too, but just in a 'It's a cartoon' way.

>>6908457
Oh my fucking god, you poor thing...
I'm thankful they don't buy things for me, but goddamn if they did..

>>6906479
yes, same here haha.
i had my weeb stage from age 13-17 so it was a long one but thankfully i am more self aware now. but my parents still don't forget hahah.
we went to a family reunion and we had to write out answers for a family quiz beforehand, but my parents never told me this and filled mine out for me. at the reunion it was read to about 150 people "and the award for most creative entry in the "what i want to be when i grow up" category is... EMPEROR OF JAPAN!!"
i was 21 years old.
i won a samurai sword from the dollar store.

sometimes you just gotta laugh

>>6908571
My gram has this thing where she remembers me being really into Japan and goth and anime and mixes them together in her head to create this weird version of what I'd wear (my dressy stuff is all sort of mainstream-meets-otome, retro lacy stuff nowadays). This is paired with her need to hand make at least one item for everyone for Christmas. A while back she gave me a full outfit she put together which included a fairly passable though entirely wrong size attempt at a lolita skirt, a plain black turtleneck (not loli but useful?) and to top off this all black outfit, a bright red glittery 70s style block vest made of the same curly fun fur Elmo is made of. I still have no idea where or how she decided dead muppets = lolita but I'm guessing those goddamn raver legwarmers that show up on Ebay/Etsy are to blame.

violet-san and tora-chan were my bffies
violet wrote yaoi and tora was obsessed with sasuke

>>6908753
>I still have no idea where or how she decided dead muppets = lolita
This is the best thing I have ever seen.

>>6908767
Do people who can't draw really all draw in this same remedial traced gimp art? I know someone who draws exactly like this, but everything is traced and they are so proud of using gimp.

>>6908768
A year later she gave me the remnants of fabric for this vest, she apparently bought 4 yards when it only needed 1. I should have tried to make muppetloli happen.

>>6908770
It's always either that or unanatomical anime doodles on lined paper.

>>6908753
For reference it was this stuff but with glitter.

>>6906971
>ran like Rikku from FFX-2 in gym class

I used to do that silly Naruto-style running in gym class.
And if we were playing capture the flag, I'd try to be all ninja-like.
Looking back, I'm pretty glad that one douche called me out on it. Even if it was just to be mean, it sure helped me get out of my weeb phase.

>>6908767
Wait...did you draw this.....because I have this picture saved on my computer and my friends and me sometimes laugh at it because it reminds us of us back when we used to RP

>>6908291
>I showed my family an episode of Lucky Star
Which episode was it?

Oh man was my weaboo journey pretty strange:
>Be in 6th grade, get into anime and shit through Tokyo Mew Mew manga.
>kind of be autistic at social gatherings
>No one paying attention to me, so I'd just scream "Guy look I'm Roy Mustang!!!" and run around pretending to light things on fire
>fyi Roy Mustang was my husbando xDDD
>Meet not as autistic friends who like anime
>Try to hide power level all throughout highschool
>Everyone remember me being that stupid anime kid. Start giving me shit
>I grew some balls after middle school
>On 4 sports teams.
>Still made some kingdom hearts yaoi fancomic with friend despite being in high school
>Roxas was my husbando
>Nobody knew but her.

1/2

>>6909050
2/2

>Friend actually believes herself to be Riku >become full time normalfag, but my power level was too high.
>You know what who fucking cares?
>Do whatever I want. Be that normal kid who is friends with so many different groups of people by senior year instead of that freaky anime kid.
>Still drawing anime fanart in secret during class and I'm 17 years old.
>Realize how my academic life is going to shit because of personal issues. Teachers start giving me shit and treating me horribly.
>I loose any desire I had to succeed academically, despite my 4.2 GPA.
>Get kicked out of National Honors Society, get blacklisted from receiving any scholarships from school, teachers treat me like I'm the scum of the Earth and autistic, taking my class notebooks where I doodle animu and chibis on the side of the pages where I take notes, show my class my pictures.
>LOL YOU STILL LIKE ANIME
>Give up on life
>Only thing I'm good at is "drawing"
>1690 on SATs ;_;
>I'm just going to go to art school!!! XD
>Get my shit together and make a portfolio, wind up getting into one of the top art school in the country.
>Old friend who got me into anime through Tokyo Mew Mew approaches me for the first time in 3 years because she hears I'm going to art school.
>I'm going too!!! nyaa
>Ask to see her portfolio, generally excited since I was the only person in the entire school to apply to art school.
>"What's a portfolio?"
>Spend last year of high school being a general delinquent and kind of acting out in response to my shitty treatment by the teachers.
>Suddenly realize I'm one of THOSE KIDS, except instead of looking ghetto in detention, I'm sitting in the front of the room looking super kawaii with my urban outfitters bow headband things and reading old volumes of Prince of Tennis.
>Graduate school
>never go back
>Go to art school NO ANIME AND MANGA
>Ok.
>Get really into children's book illustration
>Appreciate all forms of illustrative art now.
What the fuck is my life

>>6909053
Anon, I just want to say that you're awesome and I'm genuinely happy for you. I think all of us have been in similar situations, but very few manage to pull themselves together the way you did. I'd attach an image or something, but I'm on a phone so polite sage for going off-topic.

>>6909096
T-thank you so much. That actually means a lot to me...
I realize that my story's not really a funny one as much as a self-depreciating one when I look back on it, but I really appreciate someone acknowledging what I went through

>>6909186
No problem bro (sis?), hopefully your story is an inspiration to rebuild for more people than just me.

>>6906725
It was an original gawthik hot topic Misa Amane outfit complete with a Party City wig.

I'm blushing and cringing while writing this whole thing, I can't believe my old self.

>be 8 or something
>Pokemon is a huge deal, everyone loves it and plays the games and it's great
>2 years later the hype train has ended and everyone has moved on to new things like hockey and Breaker High
>not me
>get super into anime and cats, spend absurd amounts of time on Neopets in the 'anime groups' section listening to MIDI renditions of the Fruits Basket (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWKygwC2IA))
>at my old school I have a lot of friends and so they're used to me being weird, times are good
>switch schools, I'm not just new I'm also the weird kid that can't stop talking about cats and anime
>"**** School Story Writing Contest! Win a Prize"
>I submit a horrible rip-off of Cardcaptors with a MC named Ikura, it was about gems or something and it was awful. I didn't win the contest.

Writing it out doesn't make it seem that bad actually, but there are little things I did which just...don't translate to text properly. Goddamn. I wish I knew that hiding my power level was the greatest skill I could learn.

>>6908508
I was the same way, lucky for everyone else I was too dumb to even think of lel randum XDD things to say. I was also an annoying scene piece of shit who still thought Shane Dawson was hilarious. Thank god we were too poor for Internet.

I sorta transitioned from an emofag into a weeaboo and both were equally horrible
>be emofag with vampirefreaks account
>I might be an honor student, but I am also a Satanist!!1
>see japanese dictionary in bookstore
>hmm, everything else is too mainstream and this looks like fun
>start learning japanese
>start watching naruto
>RPing Gaara on Runescape
>let that sink in
>was majorly depressed and didn't know it, everyone in school hated me because I was an ugly kid and hairy to boot
>people threw soda cans at me, hit me with iceballs and fence planks, made fun of me for everything I said
>parents were always just "well it's your fault for being antisocial and watching animu"
>try to shave one day, mom walks in and freaks out
>"BUT YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL JUST THE WAY YOU ARE"
>starts hiding razors from me, one day I find them and shave my eyebrows to look decent (actually did an excellent job, still same shape to this day), arms and legs
>next day in school, people still make fun of me
>"teeheehee it obviously affects her when we're making fun of her so she shaved"
>mfw
>get even deeper into animu
>discover yaoi fanfics
>start wishing I was a kawaii bishie and had a handsome nihonjin seme to protect me
>going to chinese markets and screaming "kuhwhaiiiiii" at every plastic trinket on the shelf
>discover gaia online and pretend I was a kawaii half-japanese bishie xDDD, had a horrible sig
>Boxxy was slowly becoming a hot topic so thankfully not many people cared
>Got called out by some two people who actually spoke japanese
>mfw I was still studying japanese and thought I knew everything
>they bust me and this other chick whose picture I still have to remind me of the grorious days
>backpedal mode, delete everything
>never entered the website again thanks to those angels in disguise
>actually start studying japanese for real
>move to other city just to attend high school with japanese as a first foreign language
The adventure continues (1/2)

>>6910928
(2/2)
>Slowly easing out of weeaboo phase
>Discovered women's clothing and makeup
>discovered flattering haircuts
>discovered that the reason why I was all into being a dude was because I was scared of others judging me
>sick of being asked if male or female
>but maybe I can be a kawaii nihonjin girl this time?
>Horrible snowflake hairyjookoo clothes from goodwill
>horrible attempts to make myself seem more asian with eyeliner
>nope, still a retard
>stopped watching animu, now all into dramas to help me with my Japanese skills
>tried to act like Yuffie all the time, unwillingly pissing people off
>never told a soul about my hardass weeb days, hiding power level
>first time in new high school, for the first time in my life gain friends
>get really good at japanese
>lrn2makeup
>discover gyaru and start dressing more or less normal
>get into best college in the country thanks to mad japanese skills
>become qt3.14
>meet cute guy
>find job
>get married
>move to grorious nippon
>mom tells me one of my biggest bullies was pregnant at 16, had a shotgun wedding and is now a single unemployed mom living with her parents and 4 sisters
>feels bad but also good
And that's about it. Sorry if it was too boring.

>>6910928
>>6910969
I had a fairly similar experience, but instead of mad Japanese skills I have mad drawing skills, however I became extremely depressed at one point and ended up missing some school.

how's life in Japan going?

>>6911000
high five, art buddy

>>6911000
quite ronery actually, no friends, just coworkers, and I can't be alone for one second because everyone's always sitting on top of my head all the damn time. I'll be going back home soon so it's okay. Good job on the art though, art in general is insanely competitive, I have no idea how you guys do it, mad respect

>>6911001
>>6911010
aw, that's not kawaii

t-thanks. I don't I would've gotten half as good without the freaky weeb friend I had in school to compete with.

My friends and I had an unofficial club in middle school, and we all had japanese names. Being one of the only two asians in the club, I was the twin sister of a girl who looked 7. We even had a roleplaying book that we passed around.
Thankfully in highschool, my boyfriend was having none of that shit and I grew out of most anime.

>>6903729
I used to have a bell. Everyone of my friends would play with it in high school.
Then I traded it for a book to the whore.

>>6904933
you deserve some hugs anon

>used to call my English (who ran the Japanese club /and/ taught for years in Japan) sensei
>shitty anime RP with -kun in them

ugh

>>6907881
>Yami no Matsuei in middle school.
My. Nigga.
>middle school was YnM, Gravitation, and RoyxEd fanfiction
I actually regret nothing and being a weaboo was some of the best times I had in my life. I'm over it now, but damn I'm so fucking embarrassed of everything and I won't let myself like anything to an obsessive level anymore.
Weeb things I still do:
>Use ano, etto, and oro when I'm thinking about shit out loud, privately.
>Do victory sign after playing a level in a video game like some Bayonetta DMC type shit
>Draw my crushes as chibi characters
>Still like to watch gay guys go at it and I watch yaoi occasionally.

>>6904909
are you the anon that played insanely fast dance music at a con rave?

>>6904909
>>6911329
>NOBODY CAN DANCE THAT FAST

>Bought a bunch of 'how to manga' and 'how to speak japanese' books
>Wrote fanfiction which was little more than self-inserts with "steamy" scenes of favorite characters
>Was part of a group of weebs who would stalk down to the local bookstore everyday, sit and read manga, and giggle over 'kawaii bishies' so loudly that we were interrupting paying customers. Felt bad about it, but the others insisted we were in the right, and peer pressure won the day.
>Confounded family by insisting that Japanese culture was superior to everything in the world

Christ, I could go on.

I look back at some of the crap I did and just cringe.

>>6911382
> vibrating neckbeards

>>6911382
>>6911663
shit, just when i thought i was safe from that neverending laughing fit

Oh man I was SO close to going full out weeb. My weebiness began to blossom in middle school. I wore these grey cat ears for all of 7th grade, but I insisted they were wolf ears because "wolves are so majestic and amazing~~~" I spent a ridiculous amount of money on this tail and arm warmers set from Etsy to be a wolf for Halloween. I became fascinated with hentai, loli, shota, yaoi, yuri, all that good stuff.

I was THIS close to becoming a retarded furry, edgy, bandwaggoning, yaoi fangirl. But then, as stupid as it sounds, I discovered /cgl/ and 4chan and realized what a dumb dumb I was being. So thanks guys.

>>6911731
OH and how could I forget I was a horrible meme spouter and /b/tard while I was a weeb. The embarrassment.

>be 15
>2000~2001, high school sophomore
>always a fat girl with little-to-no friends because of shyness, insecurity, and nerd
>fall into a group of girls who introduce me to yaoi and bishounen
>fall in love with Treize (from Gundam Wing), prints whatever pictures could be found online
>one of the girls gets a crush on me, oblivious me has no idea
>Girl begins to insist that anime worlds are actually real, but in a parallel dimension
>Girl claims to "channel" Treize from the otherside to speak to me.
>Oblivious, naive me gets into a quasi-relationship of sorts with girl, no idea what is really going on
>Most of the time spent just hanging out and kissing, with me feeling really awkward the entire time
>About a year passes with this shit, and I let it happen because I was starving (ha) for attention
>Still into anime but getting back into video games, meeting other friends, getting away from my abusive home situation, and girl starts getting jealous
>be 18
>Senior year now, and girl tells me that "we can cross into their universe" but that involves FUCKING KILLING OURSELVES
>By this point, I'm freaked out and slowly stop talking to her and hanging out as much
>She turns our group of friends against me, calling me "a traitor" (lolwat) and a demon
>Find other friends I neglected due to spending so much time with Girl, apologize, and enjoy the rest of my senior year

It was a fucking nightmare. I associate my weeb phase with some of the most awkward and disturbing points of my life, so it's hard to bring it up when people ask about it. It's been ten years, and while I'm still a fat girl into games, I've invested so much into myself since so I wouldn't be emotionally manipulated like that ever again. It's pretty fucked.

>>6911731
>tfw aquabats made you realize how retarded japan was

>>6906080
>Enzai

Oh god, first con, some chick my friend and I had just met came with us to our room cus we HAD to see this omg so awesome yaoi game. She then starts playing Enzai with no subtitles. My friend's only intro to yaoi was a few episodes of Loveless so she was pretty freaked out after that.

>>6904313
>I think I used the phrase "lets pretend that..." until I was like 12.

Awww fuck, me too. Now It's kinda cute when you mention it.

>>6912550
>Enzai

OMG who shares something like that with someone?

It's the first and only yaoi game I played just cause it was on /y/ and I thought I'd check it out. Those sex scenes....guy dresses the kid up as a Christmas tree and fucks him. Another scene where there's no sex but the guys gang up on one kid and mop him during cleaning time. Wut?

In middle school I use to have anime nicknames with a bunch of my friends. Wore goggles and Naruto headbands in my hair although I never really acted all that weabooy otherwise. I dropped all that shit completely by second year of high school thank god.
I can't say I was all that bad considering the some of the people I knew in high school and the people I saw in college. These people would run around like children, glomp each other, go KAWAII and BAKA-NEE and wear fucking fox tails(sometimes multiple) with with TRiPP pants or skirts in fucking college. God fucking damn.

>sr. picture is me in Neo's trenchcoat and cat ears.
>left dents in lockers from glomping people, even chipped a tooth.
>have a giant back tattoo fro an anime (don't regret, it still looks beautiful)
>tried to learn Japanese and used random words whenever
>was really fucking loud and excitable and offendable and all around fucking horrible and I regret that faze.

>>6903606
I was actually a pretty mild weaboo and I hid my power levels all the time because I was afraid people would judge me for liking anime (even though nobody ever did). Aside from high school where I would hang out with the weabs from my anime club but I would never join them on their stupid shit since I had a group of normalfags friends too.

I never had a weeaboo stage. I like anime, I read manga, I like cute things, but when I'm out in public I don't act like a complete asshat. I'm 23 years old, I'm edging up on my final year of college - I'm allowed to have different interests, and I do...I just do so in the privacy of my own home.

>>6913002
>those round clothing racks

They used to have them at Target and I'd hide from my mom in them. Good times.

>>6910728
> Shane Dawson
Oh my, I remember him.

>>6903781
i know some one who is an adult, who actually runs that way. in high school, him and another friend would always come to school wearing those naruto headbands and those black and red cloudy jackets. (idfk what to call them bc i never got into naruto.)

>best friend and I traced over yaoi and showed off our traced yaoi to each other in class
>she always wore a yellow ribbon like Haruhi
>I always wore interface headset hairclips like Asuka
>we gave each other Death Note nicknames
And then she dated some guy from the anime club that I had a crush on and we stopped being friends over that. Those were dark times.

I think I was weeb material as a teen but never quite got there.
>emotionally disturbed
>bad skin and hair
>shit anime drawing style
Yet somehow these factors failed to gel and I was just a weird loner. Probably because I was too socially awkward to have friends to egg me on or spew spaghetti at people.
>tfw you're even a failure at being a weeb

Oh goodie. These threads give me the good cringes.

I'm slightly proud of myself that all (if any) of my weebness was middle school and elementary school and that I was actually a decent social person in high school. But I'll share my stories.
I hid my power level well and would only bring it up with close friends and animu nerds, but the most weeb stuff I suppose I've done is:
>5th grade "How to draw Mango" (although everyone liked my drawings, assuming it was like comic book stuff, and actually got alot of respect from dudes[ and not to mention pretty much started my drawing career I still have to this day])
> was really into both Naruto and Tokyo Mew Mew, and drew from both series ALOT (but never bought any merch or headbands or bells,etc)
> Only anime-related thing I remember wearing to school was a Hot Topic L shirt
> The most recent thing I can think of was bringing friends who aren't into anime to anime conventions, but they claim to have still had an amazing time

Mainly alot of my weebness was online with youtube and AIM roleplaying with Naruto fans, and requesting Original character from Tokyo Mew Mew on random chat room sites.

You know, I fucking cringe whenever I think back to my weeb days and the things I did, but I wouldn't change them for the world. Though I was retarded as shit, at least I was having a lot of fun with my friends. Seriously, I'm hard pressed to think of anything else fun than those days.

Back in middle school, Ouran was really popular. This was before the dub, but I had turned on a lot of my weeb friends to it. We, of course, all decided that we needed to be the characters from the series. I was Tamaki, my best friend was Haruhi, and so on. When we were around each other we'd do EVERYTHING in character. We'd even do P.E. in character, not kidding.

I remember one day I brought in some instant coffee to the art room we'd have lunch in and everyone proceeded to wonder at it, in character. It sounds so fucking dumb, but it was so hilariously fun running around and pretending that we were so amazed by the stupid bottle of coffee. Sure we got some weird looks, but it was still a ton of fun...

Honestly, I sort of miss it. We were a respectable lot. We didn't glomp, or bite, or lick, or any of that other creepy stuff. We were pretty normal kids other than our stupid fantasy games we'd play. I wish I could go back to those times sometimes.

Now the feud between me and the "queen otaku" of the school... That's more reserved for the horrors thread.

>>6904313
You sound like a fun person to be friends with. Would weeb out with.

>>6911781
wut

My weeb phase was pretty short lived, but I was quite the enabler. I was friends with a few well behaved otaku-girls but I knew well enough to avoid the fujo- yoaishits in kitty ears, my liking yuri was akin to a sin. But even the most well behaved girls...
Boobies- she insisted we called her that, and boy did she earn it. She introduced herself to everyone by fondling. She dressed up every day like a kawaii desu gothloli, with matching joker eyeliner and brought her creepy clown dolls to school because they controlled her mind and couldn't be trusted at home.
H-chan the resident glomper in hot topic livery
A girl that looke just like potato and wore "elegant gothic" church clothes
The narutards- to many to name but they wore headbands every day and called themselves character-chan, threw paper kunai, played pretend during lunch
Then a group of sweet quiet girls who were all obsessed with yoai fan art
I made great friends with a group of j-rockers who were all sane and lovely but sure liked to RP kingdom hearts alot.
My friend Madame Red-chan drew alot of Itachix OC fanart and brought me along with her friends who preformed the time warp in a starbucks.
Good times man, good times. I keep hoping I run into them at a con.

>>6907889
But you're so cute! I remember this pic from your timeline.

>>6904495
I'm like you and most of my friends are too.
But I've never gotten any shit for it here, Switzerland's pretty chill with weeb. And trust me there were some cringe-worthy moments.

>>6904872
Quizilla...
Dem feels. I wonder if my account still works.
I used to spend days doing [7 M1NU735 1N H34V3N] type of weeby self insert quizzes...