I can't wait until tnw moves to England and starts missing Japan. That should make for some fun threads.

The Outback thing was hilarious. Shit, I'm headed to Tokyo this weekend, and I CAN'T WAIT to go to some American restaurants (and Mexican, oh the Mexican food!) I'll even take Burger King and Subway; none of that shit is available out where I am. Laat time, we went to a Hard Rock Cafe in Yokohama and I went nuts ordering stuff.
What's happened on the internet and amongst animufags is that Japan has become something almost sacred. That's why I loved the fansub "documentary;" the guy rips on the people who won't translate words or phrases and use honorics. Who the fuck says "that...that cannot be, Rika-Sama!!" or "he is going to use the ahambaragamakusarifumi-kumi-fumi-yumi-shibumi attack, learned from the daimyo!!!" in English? I've always called Akihabara "nerd mecca" (And it doesn't even apply as much as it used to), but I didn't mean that literally. The people who masturbate all over any Japanese make me fucking sick. And yet, just about every foreigner I've ever met here (that isn't a tourist) isn't like this. It's just net nerds, apart from the territorial nerds you might come across that give you the "evil eye" because you have invaded "MY JAPAN."
Perhaps the biggest shocker to animufags I can think of is that in Japan, manga and anime are treated the same way as comics and cartoons (BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE) in your own country: stuff for kiddies or nerds.
but i'm a japafag ;_;
Sorry, but to be a real japafag, you must have lived or live in Japan.