Acquired Taste: (
Style) These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind.
Comedy: (
Genre) Self-explanatory - a title that primarily makes you laugh.
Otaku Theme: (
Story/Location) Titles in which one or more principal characters are rabid fans of anime or are employed in the anime/manga/video game industries. In other words, shows which would appeal to otaku since they give a glimpse of people like themselves and/or the industries that fascinate them.
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| G |
Genshiken
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Rent |
Kanji Sasahara is a first year college student. He watches a lot of Anime and reads Manga. He was thinking of joining the Manga club when another student Makoto Kohsaka strikes up a conversation with them about joining. Kanji is embarassed and leaves. Later he visits the Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture (Aka a bunch of Otaku's). While alone in the club room, he looks up the skirt of a Haruka doll (KGNE), and is caught red handed flipping through their porn collection. He is so mortified, but finds out it was a form of Hazing and the other guys were just waiting nearby for the president to catch him in the 'act'!. "Now that we know we're the same kind" Genshiken member Madarame says, "how about you join us?"
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| T |
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The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture
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Rent |
See Genshiken
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