Why Anime SUCKS

At 17, Evangelion shifted him from World of Warcraft addiction into daily anime, Japanese study, and idealized fantasies about Japan. His first Japan trip disappointed him: an online girlfriend did not match expectations, they dated five or six weeks, then broke up. He stopped enjoying anime, blamed it for wasted study and travel, and assembled a coat rack with his wife.

Idealized Japan and anime fantasies collapse into a recurring gap between imagined romance, sexual motivation, and lived reality.