Yet another survey of Japanese womenfolk reveals just how loathed the merest hint of anime-related interests are, with otaku-related paraphernalia featuring prominently in a list of the interiors most repulsive to womankind.
The list, based on surveys of the common Japanese female:
1. A room with a wall plastered with idol posters
“I understand their feelings, but this is just gross!”
2. A bunch of car or bike parts taking up loads of space
“Stuff you can trip over – at least leave it outside.”
3. Weight training junk of no interest to girls
“My jaw dropped when he asked me to do it with him…”
4. High end hifi gear unlikely to result in any music she’d want to hear
“I don’t want to hear him going on about how good the low frequency response is.”
5. Moe figures reminiscent of otaku
“Honestly, even a few of these really creep me out!”
6. Plastic models which will provoke his ire when you touch and break them
“When I got close to take a look at them he angrily told me ‘don’t touch!'”
7. A gloomy room with all the furniture in matching black
“There’s nothing wrong with black, but it is kind of ominous.”
8. Gaudy black light illumination
“Even now? It’s dark and you can’t see what you are doing.”
9. Tons of manga – a little might be OK, but not too much…
“Please, give me a break from bookshelves filled with nothing but manga.”
The group most devastated by some of these items is understandably upset, as usual:
“I only have one poster of an idol so I guess I am in the clear!”
“I thought these days nobody plasters their wall with idol posters any more, but then I remembered how popular AKB48 is…”
“I wish the girls who make these haughty rankings would take a look in the mirror…”
“‘Why do guys all waste their money on such stupid things?’ ‘Right, girls only spend all their cash on worthwhile things like branded bags and the latest season’s fashion, don’t they?'”
“People who refuse to tolerate interests different to their own are scum irrespective of gender.”
“Since they didn’t mention dakimakura I am choosing to believe they are OK.”
“My room is nothing but Fate-chan…”
“At least consoles are OK now?”
“My room is nothing but plastic models and manga…”
“The site which makes these rankings needs to realise it is just as creepy to all men.”
“How would a girl find her way into those types of room in the first place?”
Well I remember one of my friends who lives in the same apartment building was trying to fix me up with this girl. they worked together so we had a bit of a party to kind of get the two of us aquatinted.
she seemed alright she was somewhat cute but I felt she was kind of strange but we seemed to be getting along. So the party was winding down and my friend suggested that I take the girl upstairs and show her my apartment. I do take a lot of pride in the appearance of my place and like to keep it clean and tidy. so I am basically planing on giving her a little tour and when we go into the living room and she sees that it is pretty much filled with Tomb Raider/Lara Croft stuff (posters,statues, toys/collectibles) and she for some reason is in utter shock and highly offended!! I don’t quite know why? I mean the reaction was so strong and severe to that it was unbelievable I could have been living in total filth or had dead bodies hanging from the ceiling and her reaction would have not been as intense to my Lara Croft collection, she was actually flipping out and having some type of melt down..
I managed to pull her away from that to show her the rest of my place the kitchen, bedroom, office room but she can’t get over the sight in the living room and quickly wants to go back to the party downstairs so I take her back downstairs and then from there she quickly leaves. My friend doesn’t know what is going on and asks me what happened?? I said nothing I took her up to show her my place and she started having a melt down in the living room which my friend also couldn’t believe. So when they end up back at work the next day together she seems to be purposely avoiding my friend when before they use to talk and joke around now she is trying to keep her distance as much as possible this goes on for apparently a few days and then she quits and disappears and we never see or hear from her again I think she actually moved away.
“People who refuse to tolerate interests different to their own are scum irrespective of gender.”
I wonder why this person even read the article.
If I have interests, hobbies or things I like, there’s always the opposite. I’m sure they could tolerate these rooms as long as they weren’t their (boy-)friends’; saying such a thing sounds like not accepting the fact that people have things they don’t like.
I’m a girl but my room is filled with idols posters… well, I’m just plain weird xD
Maybe this is going by Japanese standards maybe? I have most of that and Women seem to like my room, plus i have dakimakura pillows!
These answers are all really vapid. These women might as well be saying that they don’t care about their man’s interests/hobbies/thoughts at all.