Important! (It is to me) I really appreciate that my stamp is so popular, but honestly, would it kill you to take a look at the rest of my gallery as well?
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Also, I would love it if you'd actually read the description before you mindlessly add this to your stamp collection. Apparently, a lot of people seem to miss the point with this, and if you do, let me explain it to you:

I really can't stand when there's biased jerks out there who label me a "weeaboo" or "wapanese" because I like some japanese things such as cartoons, comics and videogames. There's a difference between liking something and obsessing over it, and in my case, it's the former.

Sure, I like Final Fantasy, but I like Tomb Raider, also. Sure, I like Death Note, both the anime and manga, but I also like Disney cartoons and Marvel comics. Sure, I'd love to cosplay sometime, but I haven't done that yet, because there's only one or two characters I actually think I could pass as. And sure, it would actually be pretty neat to visit Japan one day, but no more neat than visiting Australia or Hawaii. Pocky is pretty good, but it's not the best snack in the world; personally, I prefer wasabi peas or Craisins. I also love Sushi, but not because it's japanese, but because I enjoy seafood, plain and simple. I also couldn't care less about learning japanese, because I don't plan on ever living there; I'd rather learn spanish or french.

But that's just me. I'm sure there's a lot of people like me, and a lot of people who take these things to the extreme. Much like overeating leads to obesity, while on the other hand, if you eat responsibly, you can stay slim and healthy. The same applies to everything else, even "interests".


The term “Wapanese” is actually derived from the mixing of “white” and “Japanese” but due to the fact that Wapanese are no longer all white, we have adopted the new meaning of “wannabe Japanese”.

Wapanese can be classified by two or more of the following traits:

1. Are obsessed to a mentally unstable level with anything connected with Japan. Wapanese will believe and proclaim that every facet of Japanese culture is superior to all others, particularly American. Whether it is junk food like Pocky, animation, film, economy, work ethic, respect for this and that, Japan will be better in every way. They will continue to believe this to the point that they smother themselves with everything Japanese in order to bury their own origins.

2. Will try to learn Japanese simply from watching anime. They will learn only a small number of Japanese words and sprinkle them within English sentences, using what is called Japanglish. They are under the false pretense that they know a vast amount of the Japanese language by adding words such as “kawaii” or “baka” into their sentences (cute and fool respectively).

3. Has a superficial, rather unhealthy obsession with shallow, saccharine and intellectually insulting animation shows (referred to commonly as “anime” ), made originally for young Japanese children.

4. Have also unhealthy obsessions with supposedly handsome anime characters that resemble chopsticks painted with faces. They do such in a toxic level that other people who see that they worship some bony fool drawn on paper would vomit to death.

5. Operates under the flawed belief that the American culture is exceptionally inferior to that of Japan’s, even though 99.99% of Wapanese have never had any firsthand experience with their preferred culture (aka, they have never been to Japan itself).

6. Often owns a sword (Katana or other Japanese weapon of course) and claim they have studied the Samurai and Ninja and know how to expertly use their blade. Aside from being wrong, they forget that Ninjas and Samurai probably were in a lot better physical shape than them. Also they believe that merely by watching Naruto, they can become Ninja.

7. Don't realize that the Japanese would find them equally as sad, if not more so, than the Americans do. They are often looked down upon for slaughtering the language and culture.

8. Will proudly refer to themselves as "Otaku". They seem to miss the fact that in Japan being an Otaku means you are a sheltered and pathetic person obsessed with trivial pursuits, and that they need help. I actually don't think the Wapanese could have chosen a more fitting name for themselves.

9. Extreme cases may traipse around whilst wearing a “costume” that makes them resemble their favorite anime characters (this practice is referred to as cosplay; cross-dressing and raging homosexuality is not an uncommon component of cosplay.

10. Enjoy eating Pocky, ramen, and other Asian junk food while shunning all non-Asian foods as they are quite obviously inferior.

11. Love to harp how much better Japanese music is than American music, despite the fact that they listen to J-pop/rock, which has the same amount of substance as American pop, meaning none.

12. Try to dress harajuku/lolita by applying mountains of makeup and mixing up clothes which makes them look like they are in drag or a wannabe emo.

Derived from the news article Symptoms of Wapanese by =Nekoori


Ah, anyway, this is my first animated stamp. Hope it turned out alright.

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