Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

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Interesting...

anyways, what's Japans general consensus for anime, manga, and light novels? Would you be seen as an otaku fag if you had an interest in one of them or whatever?