The Anime Reality

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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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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* Name (or nick name): Stephen Lutter (JimmPantsu/Jimm2k)
* Age: 20
* Sex: Male
* How many years you have been an otaku: 2 years but 10 years in Anime and Manga
* Nationality: German
* Outline of your collection: Figures, Gunplas, Anime, Manga, Doujinshi, Games, Dakimakura
* How much your collection cost: I don’t have a clue^^”
* Your fave item: Fate Testarossa from Alter
* Your website address: www.pantsu.jp
* Anything else you want to say: I want to have a normal Room without Ramps! >_

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Lets see: Name (or nick name): kodama
Age: 48 How many years you have been an otaku: 18-20
Nationality: Canadian
Outline of your collection: Mostly anime, some Manga, recently Figures.
How much your collection cost: Couldn’t guess, mabe $10,000+ CDN for the Anime alone
Your fave item: Tsukasa Nambu figure
Your website address: Don’t have one.

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* Name: Hikaru Kazushime
* Age: 19
* How many years you have been an otaku: Grew up loving Tokusatsu and Super Sentai series, and have always loved figures, posters, books and games. Honestly, I believe I’ve been otaku for 19 years!!! Collecting current collection for about 6 years.
* Nationality: German/Native American/Norweigan
* Outline of your collection: Roughly 150-200 Figures, 200 Graphic Novels, 140 DVDs, 160 Video Games, 1 Laptop, 1 Computer, 1 Plasma Akai 42” TV, 8 Gaming Systems, 634 Posters, 10 Wall Scrolls, and 20+ Anime and Game Artbooks.
* How much your collection cost: About 10,000.00+ USD
* Your fave item: Fraulein Revoltech Yoko Movie Ver. (Fav at the moment)
* Your website address: www.runaroundkazu.blogspot.com
* Anything else you want to say: I love my hobbies, and to fellowship with others about similar interests. Being an otaku is my anti-drug!

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Anime rooms are one of the most common things we find, but this guy is just awful. His entire house is one big anime room full of swords, body pillows, wall scrolls, figures and even a titty mousepad. God damnit.