I just wanted to talk about my beloved cousin. I’ll call him ‘K.’
Throughout his life, he’s been a total weeaboo. According to my cousins in California (where he used to live and moved to Virginia where I live), he always stayed on the computer playing games and watching anime. He didn’t have many friends either. When he moved, the same thing applied here. Because he knew I enjoyed anime and manga, the only person he pretty much talked to was me. He used to talk about all kinds of anime things. When I looked at his sketchbooks, they were full of character designs for mecha/fantasy/military anime/manga that he wanted to make…along with the occasionally “omghentaiinthebackofthesketchbook” type thing. He would argue with me about which Gundam was the best, how “moe” characters were, how much the anime I liked was overrated (don’t make me hate on your little Gundam Unicorn, K). He never went to conventions and such, but he would always talk about them. He wanted to become a Marine (or at least go into the military or whatever), simply because he was always watching futuristic military anime and playing video games like CoD and Halo. He was even in the same Japanese class as I was went I entered high school. He was in my school’s Anime Club, as well… Now that I realize it, Anime Club had only about 2% that weren’t total weaboos and had a touch of reality in their lives. No wonder I stopped going and joined Japanese Club instead.
But we don’t talk anymore. He used to live with my dad, but he got kicked out twice. Long story short, he didn’t take out the trash after 8-9 hours, my dad got angry and made a first move, then K totally beat him up and ran away. Did I mention that my dad’s still recovering from a stroke two years ago, has diabetes, and high blood pressure? Then, he moved into my dad’s friend’s place…and got kicked out a few weeks ago. Guess why. He did nothing at all around the house and smelled so bad.
When he used to live at my dad’s, he used to be fine. He did work, he did some chores, etc. After he got his xbox, computer, AND the internet, everything took a turn for the worst. He stayed up until morning, either playing video games or watching anime. He rambled on even more about his ideas for an anime and his characters, fumbling and walking back and forth in the same place while doing so. He had more online friends and spoke broken Japanese to them. Speaking of Japanese, his sleeping habits were so bad, he forgot to go to the final exam for Japanese class and my sensei even had to call him.
But here comes the worse part: he didn’t shower. He wouldn’t shower for days, weeks, and maybe even months. He ate lots of fast food all the time, left it in his room for months, and the place would start stinking up. He didn’t even get out of his chair to go to the bathroom. According to my dad (I don’t live with him), he would urinate in waterbottles or any type of bottle that held liquids or drinks in it. And he would keep them there, just like the leftover food he ate. He said he wanted to go to become a Marine, but because he didn’t take a shower a lot, his eczema (it’s a skin condition) got worse and they didn’t accept him. There were even sores on various parts of his body. I’ve never met smelly hambeasts. But if K matches the description, then yes. Yes, I have met one.
My dad’s friend kicked him out because she was tired of his laziness and his “disgusting habits.” He got a job at 7-11 and lived in a different house and still didn’t learn from his mistakes. Where is he now? With my dad’s friend’s friend (let’s call her ‘L’)…who is currently spoiling him more than his mother would. His mom still lives with my dad (brother and sister), but she drives him places because he can’t drive yet. But anyway, according to my dad’s gossip, L doesn’t have a husband anymore and willingly took K into her home. She washed him, gave him food, gave him shelter, internet, etc. Apparently, everyone thinks she’s out to take his virginity. I’m kind of scared for him…kind of.
I met with my cousins in California this summer and my sister and I told them about K. They didn’t think he would become this bad. Honestly, I don’t know what to think of K. Aside from being such a weeaboo, he really isn’t a normal kid. You would think he would be fine at 20 years old. He’s probably like this because of his lonely childhood without a father and an abusive mother. When he left California, everyone who was there to encourage him (yes, all my dad’s brothers and sisters and their families live in California) wasn’t there anymore.
But we really can’t stop him or change him. I mean, I’ve tried. Talking to him about doing something with his life and to get out of his “anime fantasy world” was difficult and is difficult, now that I hate him for what he did to my dad and what he’s doing with his life.
But here’s my advice for everyone reading this right now: Please get out of your weeaboo phase before you lose your sense of reality like my cousin has. A fantasy world will only get you so far.
I watch and read lots of anime/manga. I adore cosplayers but have never cosplayed myself. I’m the one people go to when they haven’t watched anime in a long time and need something to watch. I sit on the computer all day on Facebook, Youtube, watching anime, or playing video games. I’m basically an anime fanatic. However, I had/have enough sense to do the things I need to do in real life in order to get somewhere in real life.
I took a program for art during elementary school and middle school. I went to a magnet school to challenge myself and get a good education. I made it into an art academy and I’m trying to get over my procrastination issues in order to have more time to work on art. I’m also taking a food class to learn the basics of cooking so I can cook when I’m older. I’m part of a Filipino club, marching band, and an art club. I’m a high school student who loves anime as much as you do and I’m doing things.
I sat down with K one time and discussed his future. He had a dream. He had something he wanted to achieve, but he lived in the 2-D world to the point where I couldn’t reach him. You know what? A long time ago, he was chosen to be an exchange student in Japan, but his fucking mom didn’t want him to go. So he didn’t. That was probably his one chance to make a change.
Sorry if this isn’t a “bad story” like it was supposed to be, but I just wanted to make people (especially weeaboos who read your blog) aware of what may become of them.
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Anonymous2014-04-06 7:50
I’m one of the co-presidents of my college’s anime/science fiction/d&d/general geekery club. I tend to manage the anime part and the other president manages the roleplaying. Once a week we have a meeting specifically for watching anime, and there’s always this one group of people (all girls) who come without fail. They’re all - you guessed it - weeaboos. They often show up in bad cosplays and/or cat ears and tails, squeal about yaoi, insult other members’ opinions about the anime we watch, and just generally disrupt the meetings with their immaturity.
There are many stories I could tell, but I’ll just tell the most recent. Last week one of them brought a bunch of yaoi hentai with them on a harddrive and didn’t ask me if we could watch it but just started downloading it onto the computer when I was talking with my friends before we started. (We watch in a classroom that we have permission to use, and use the projector and screen.)
So I had to delete it from the computer while they all stood around me whining about how all the anime we watched was boring. For the record, we vote each week on a show to watch and there’s usually about a dozen to 15 people who show up besides these girls. They always suggest either yaoi titles, or Hetalia, or anything with “kawaii bishounens” or whatever the term is. So naturally they’re outnumbered every time in voting by the other people who want nothing to do with them.
Anyway, after I managed to (I hope) wipe the hentai from the classroom’s computer, one of the girls said something like the following - “I bet if it had been some disgusting yuri thing you’d have wanted to watch it. You’re just a hypocrite who hates kawaii guys because you’re homo.”
As a matter of fact, I don’t either like or watch yuri either, and they know this because they’ve said the exact same thing before. As for the homo thing, they sometimes refer to me, my girlfriend, and another girl who’s gay as “those homos” who ruin the club with their hate and discrimination. Even though it’s the club members themselves who decide together on the anime we watch and I have little to do with it besides counting the votes and setting up the show. They also frequently harassed a guy who’s gay and tried to get him to join them in their yaoi obsession. I heard one of them once say that he looked like he’d be an uke. He recently stopped coming to meetings because of them.
I’m wondering why, since they clearly don’t like the club, do they even bother to keep coming. No one’s stopping them from watching porn in their private dorm rooms. But at a club meeting that anyone is welcome to come to, and in a public classroom, doing that is not okay and is in fact in the guidelines about bringing suggestions for anime to watch.
With the exception of those 3 or 4 weeaboos, it’s a pretty chill and fun club. I’m just astounded at the immaturity these 20 year old college students display.