Everybody here knows that I love anime [probably the most of anyone on this board], so it's not like I have a whole lot of room to talk here, BUT there's a difference between watching and liking anime, and going full bore into transforming your life into some grotesque anime-inspired half-existence where you run out to toy stores to pick up the latest figures, have body pillows with female characters, celebrate the birthdays of fictional characters, and become obsessed with this bizarre notion of sexual purity of said fictional characters. That's the place where some of the MLP crowd have gone to. It's basically a rejection of reality and a desire to live in a fantasy world full of characters that will never hurt or betray them and will always remain pure and "untouched."