The Anime Reality

Nickname: Wolfheinrich
Age: 36
How many years have you been an otaku: Now that’s a tricky question, I was not aware of myself becoming an otaku when I was still very young, the series that pushed me over the edge was Golden Lightan, so that put it at roughly 26 years.
Nationality: Naturalized American Citizen (Chinese)
Outline of my collection: Mostly anime figurines, Gunpla, DVDs, CDs and most recently Dollfie Dream
How much your collection cost: About $20000 USD on my figurine collection, probably $25000 USD overall.
My Favorite Item: Dollfie Dream Dynamite Escalayer
Your website address: http://tcwenterprise.com/wordpress

Additional photos can be found in my flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfheinrichsworld/sets/72157621672045148/

I have been a lone wolf otaku for many years since none of my off-line friends are otaku by nature, I stumbled upon Dannychoo.com by total accident and I have been making quite a few friends since then. Ever since I have become a regular visitor here and I have learned how to communicate with other otaku through blogging, something I have never attempted before.

I enjoy my otaku life style very much and at the same time, I also want to work hard and be a contributing member of the society, I worked very hard to develop my career and I want to help prove that otaku can be a very productive member of the society.

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Hi figure friends, these are my pictures of my otacool room !
I’m a figure hunter and collect for some years, my biggest problem
is only (exept the money) space for more cuties, so I sell from time to
time a few items…
So and now my dates:

Nickname : you can call me Thomas the figure hunter

Age : oh no I must say it ? ok I’m a 44 years old otaku guy

How many years you have been an otaku : I collect for more than 20 years

Nationality : I’m from Germany

Outline of your collection : I have hundreds of pvc and coldcast figures/ also I love jpop music (my favourite is Kokia !!!)

How much your collection cost : I think it cost me more than 20.000 €

Anything else you want to say : I would send many greatings to all otakus from all over the world
and sorry for my selfportrait, I hate it…

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*All pics uploaded~* Deep in the sunny suburbs of Singapore, an Otaku lurks… and finally reveals his identity!!!

* Name: Actar aka Jeremy
* Age: 19
* Otaku for 2 years
* Nationality: Singaporean
* Collection contains: Mainly figures of girls and mecha with merchandise, posters and books on the side.
* Collection cost: Way too much for a student to constantly afford. (^.^)
* Favorite Item: Figma Konata Cosplay Version!
* Website: http://actar.wordpress.com and http://www.youtube.com/user/Actar576295
* “Love what you do, do what you love”.

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Name: Timothy Koh
Age: 25
Years you have been an Otaku: 5 years
Nationality: Australian
Collection outline: Japanese light novels, manga, anime magazines, Bishoujo figures, garage kits, model kits, PSP and PS3 video games.
Collection cost: Over 1,700,000 yen
Favorite item is: Ranka Lee prize figure
Web page:
Tim’s Blog:
http://timkoh.info (English)
http://timkoh.info/jp (Japanese)

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Name: Robert H. (Lightning Sabre)
Age: 29
How many years you have been an otaku: I’ve been a fan of anime since I was 4-5 years old. So more than 20 years, but have only been collecting for 10-11 years.
Nationality: Canadian, but originally from Indonesia
Outline of your collection: Hundreds, perhaps thousands of manga, over 200 figures, thousands of anime DVDs, multiple art books, more than 2 dozen anime shirts, hundreds of anime CDs and many other miscellaneous items, too many to mention…
How much your collection cost: Tens of thousands of dollars…
Your fave item: Chogokin Voltes V (my childhood item that I could not attain back then) and Alter’s 1/6 Saber ~Maid Ver.
Your website address: http://lightningsabre.blogspot.com
Anything else you want to say: As much as I like my otaku stuff, I wished I had more self-control than this. But now that it come this, it can’t be helped anymore, can it? ^^;

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You’ve all seen it, nothing special. This time I’m in one of the pictures. It’s a shame I was too lazy to shave that day. I just felt I needed to further meet the criteria by putting in all the required stuff and getting 10 pictures.

Name: Zac Bush
Age: 20
How many years you have been an otaku: 8
Nationality: Canada
Outline of your collection:
-I started collecting smaller and cheaper figures when I was in late middle school.
-Some of my first figures were Kotobukiya Play Arts of the Final Fantasy series.
-I used to buy things from a particular series, regardless of the maker.
-Most recently (the last 2 years) I’ve been collecting from both specific brands and series (such as Max Factory), with a focus on Vocaloid and Haruhi Suzumiya goods.
How much your collection cost: About $4000
Your fave item: Gothic Lolita Haruhi Suzumiya by Griffon
Your website address: http://zacbush.com

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Hello folks. Below are the necessary bullet point facts but before I want to say some words to the photos.
So why are my photos more special than any other photos you ask?? – Because they are authentic and real.
With the (obvious) exception of the katana on the bed (which is in fact a real one) everything is exactly as it is every day. No posing of figures in special ways, no piling up of all my manga and DVDs, this is the real room I live in.

And no this is not just an excuse for not cleaning it before the photo shooting ^_^ (hey it’s not that dirty anyway).

Please excuse the poor lighting of the pictures but this room has poor lighting conditions to begin with and I do not own an SLR just a compact digital camera with a normal crappy flash light.

On the walls you see my poster arrangement like I had it for the last “I can’t remember anymore how long” years so this is a premiere. Only for you (OK not only but you are the trigger for doing it), live and now I do a “before after” and rearrange my wallpapers collection. See the new version I call “maximum space exploitation” with the last two photos!!

* Nickname: El Bastardo
* Age: 27
* Have been an otaku since 1994 (over 15 years)
* Nationality: German
* Location of the room: Germany
* My collection consists of everything nerdy: Figures (including over 100 Gashapons), video games, anime, manga, artbooks and all the good stuff. Especially my figure collection can be seen at MyFigureCollection.net
* How much money it already drained out of my life I can’t say but that’s what life is for!!
* Favorite Item?? – I’m the type of guy that can’t just focus on one aspect (like MMORPG players can) but I’m proud of my Mononoke Hime hard cover Japanese first edition artbook
* You can find my latest thoughts at my personal shrine http://figurefan.blogspot.com/
* Why my room is a unique example: It’s maximum “otakuness” on limited space, figure love to the best and it just has the “fan factor”.
* Some people ask me “Hey when do you stop with these childish hobby of yours. Will you still do it when you are over 50??” – And I say “YES” ^_^ !!

If someone want to ask: Yes, the two non anime related posters on the wall you see is from the “X-Files”. I was a huge fan back in the days and I just loves Gillian Anderson. Not visible is the classic “I want to believe” poster from agent Mulder.

If the tiny possibility might happen that my exotic room is chosen to be shown to the world in the book I can make additional and/or better photos.
And also yes I know it’s not only packed it’s jammed. So many things in only 13m² is nuts. Subwoofer under the tables, seven loudspeakers cramped in every little nook but it’s effective and I like it that way.

Hope you like it too and if not that’s even better because that would proof I’m unique ^_- !!

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Name: Tony Gilmour
Age: 34
How many years Otaku: 9
Nationality: American
Outline of collection: Let’s see… about 30 dakimakuras, about 200 figures (alot of gashapon), tons of anime, games, magazines and manga.
How much collection cost: Not sure! Probably around fifteen or twenty grand.
Favorite Item: Hmm, well, if I could only save one item it would be my Alter ChuXChu vampire figure – Chua Churam.

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A fucking framed picture of Sephiroth.

Name (or nick name) = Jackie. AKA: Cupiicake, urfas, Mana, Nyan-chan, and MANY others. @w@
Age = 16.
How many years you have been an otaku = around 2. Aren’t you proud?
Nationality = Straight up German American! Yee!
Outline of your collection = 32 Manga, 7 Gashpon, 7 figures, 6 pokemon toys/figs, 7 Hello Kitty toys/figs, 13 Anime related posters, 2 Wallscrolls. about 10 clothing items, 1 anime pillow, 5 plushies, 1 art book, 12 games, 3 box set DVDs, 22 DVDs, 6 Anime related hats, MANY doodles/cutouts/scetches, and MANNYYYY Random trinkets lying around.
How much your collection cost = Oh geeze….I’d say over $4000. Hard to believe, eh?
Your fave item = I would actually say my Saki gashpon/Genshiken series. I love it WAY too much.
Your website address = I don’t really have one besides Myspace. so here: www.Myspace.com/hardcore_hamsterr
Anything else you want to say = A couple, actually.
*I’m lending out a lot of items right now. So, I didn’t count them/get them in the pics. I’m sorry.
**We’re sort of living Paycheck-to-paycheck, I’m sorry I don’t have much eyecandy here. T___T

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* Name (or nick name): Shaun (aka Syaoran)
* Age : 29
* How many years you have been an otaku: 18 years
* Nationality: United States of America
* Outline of your collection: 230+ Figures, 3 Popup Stands, 4 Dakimakura, 200+ Posters, 2 Towels, 20 Art books, Multiple years of Animage, Newtype and Megami Magazines, 400+ Anime DVDs, 140+ Doujinshi, 500+ Manga, 35 soundtrack CDs, hundreds of postcards and letter sets, 3 shirts, and many other items.
* How much your collection cost: Over $30,000 USD (aka Priceless)
* Your fave item: Rin Tohsaka Dollfie Dream
* Your website address: http://syaoran.jimdo.com
* Anything else you want to say: Member of the US Army. In addition to being an otaku I am a computer technician, gamer, and political scientist. I will be living in Japan in less than 20 months!

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