Loli Haruhi Figma

Well, it takes a certain kind of 'soul' to appreciate these kind of things....

I don't understand girls.

People have been collecting "dolls" for centuries. How is that so hard to comprehend? They tend to call something like that a hobby. Radical idea, I know.

It's a lil bit like women and their obsessions on handbags, higheels, cosmetics, jewelries, breast implants, and Twilight..

Umm, not really i guess; collecting figures is a lot more fun.

princess not otaku @_@

I own several Figmas and it's NOT creepy. The reasons are:

-They're some of the best representations of anime charas in actual form. Not all Figmas are great, but great figmas are amazing(like Luck Star and Golgo 13 and Ga Rei Zero ones are stunning)

-The posability for those figurines rival that of GI Joes

-The props they have, the stand they have, the custom stages = much more playable than dolls or, hell almost all 'action figures' out there.

I consider myself a manly man and I strut around the house playing with Figmas and posing them. I have no shame in doing so. I'm a proud Figma fan.

its looks really nice if you have the right space for it. just like gundam figures, you can imitate scenes from the show. i think thats the main appeal.

objectively speaking these are used for poses and for stop motion animation (if they have a lot of time)

Everything looks better in long hair AND of course in loli form.

I think Haruhi look better with sadist eyes

Now if they would release a Ryouko Asakura Figma figure...I wouldn't mind the price...

There actually have been doll makers and collectors in the west since 19th century at least, long before "otakus" and their Japanese anime-based counterparts kicked in.

Actually, you can't say that. There would be many more grannies etc interested in collecting the classical dolls.

My mom, for example, is still proud of her childhood dolls collection and often says she'd love to buy those expensive French and Czech models from specialized shops if she had extra money and space in shelves for them.

Give us any examples, unless you're 100+ yo and have seen them all.

Being creepy can sometimes be awesome tbh.

Which is creepier? A 30 year old guy collecting figures of scantily clad girls, or figures of brightly coloured, spandex clad muscled men?

Think about that...

She's older than 12, so no.

i dont understand how you consider this community filthy, dirty and disgusting just because they collect dolls from their favorite anime. truly if you have such a big problem, then why are you here?

that sounds more like a stereotype rather than an actual meaning. just like how a person uses the term geek or nerd insult someone. though the word itself is not necessarily a bad thing....to many

I think a part of the misunderstanding here is the use of the word Otaku inside versus outside of Japan. While within Japan, Otaku has seen use as a derogatory term, it finds a much friendlier and lighthearted base of use outside Japan. I enjoy joking about being an Otaku, despite being a college attending, nineteen-year-old male with a reasonably slim physique and, thanks to puberty finishing it's cycle, no acne.

There is a difference also between the "stereotype" of the Anime Otaku - the overweight, disgusting, fat slob who fawns over hundreds of figures while moaning "Nene is my waifu!" - and the real form of Otaku that is much more widespread. "Otaku" itself doesn't even specify Anime, and from what I understand can come to mean anyone obsessed with something, hence "Gun Otaku", "Game Otaku", "Food Otaku", etc. With every interest, there will always be a wide spectrum of fans - some will be at the obsessive scale, and some will be at the small interest scale, and many will fall between to varying degrees.

Going back to what I originally said, an issue here is the culture clash - within Japan, "Otaku" is seen as a derogatory word. We choose outside Japan to take it in a less black-and-white manner - that one can be a fan of something to any degree and jokingly be called an Otaku of that something. Perhaps in Japan it might be beneficial if those outside the "Otaku" base took more of a look at the wide spectrum of fans as opposed to a narrow minded, tight-assed, biased, irrational, moronic, and thoroughly bigoted view of them.

Welcome to the worldwide breed of Otaku, your majesty - you've joined the "Anti-Otaku Otaku" branch. =)