To an extent, I've grown out of wearing shirts with Japanese sprawled across my chest. I still find myself dressing up in Japanese shirts for your sake, but I tend to hold myself back from buying new shirts. But...that's gone out the window with my recent obsession with Toradora! and all things tsundere.
If you happen to remember a kinetic typography of Suzumiya Haruhi's class introduction (it's after the jump if you don't), J-List got the artist to create a shirt for them based around three of the big tsundere girls: Taiga from Toradora!, Louis from Zero no Tsukaima and Shana from Shakugan no Shana.
Somehow...somehow I am going to make this shirt work. I've got an entire closet full of items that I can use to simultaneously highlight my love of those difficult girls and look damn sexy doing so. I may need a haircut and it wouldn't hurt to drop those ten extra pounds, but I will do it.
We've also got a poll for you down below: I'm curious, how many of you actually wear otaku-related clothing, and in what situations?
I own three "otaku" shirts: A nerv shirt, a yotsuba shirt and a grave of the fireflies shirt. I don't feel weird wearing them at school, just because it doesn't SCREAM that im a nerd.
I've a fine selection of Otaku shirts, but they have to be understated or counter-culture (ish). Around the house on the other hand it's pretty much all of the Eureka Seven shirts. Most of them I'd wear out if they were mediums instead of L or XL.
My work doesn't require a dress code of any kind so I usually wear something video game related. I've yet to purchase anything anime or manga related but as soon as I find a 20th Century Boys shirt it will be my pride and joy. The only time I don't wear anything video game/movie related is when it's cold and I wear a long sleeve shirt or they're dirty.
i dress in the typical metal/hardcore fashion, but if i ever found a place that sold anime shirts that didnt have the characters face all over it (naruto, death note, bleach, etc...)i would so wear it with pride.
I don't like wearing otaku/anime-related stuff out in public. I'm socially paranoid and weird-lookin' enough already, I don't need to be thinking about how many people are around me thinking "anime? Seriously? What a fucking loser" and then laughing at me deep down and stuff like that.
I would care less now since I wear button-up shirts over my t-shirts now, so I'd be perfectly willing to wear something anime-related nowadays. Or just around the house or around friends or around people I know are anime fans (I know very little). Wearing it out for everyone to see, I'd be wary about.
I'd wear something that doesn't scream "I'M AN OTAKU AND I WATCH ANIME ALL THE TIME", but nah. And I'd make an exception for something incredibly cool.
On a side note, I keep seeing some girl with a Lucky Star backpack on campus, which is sorta cool. And, something completely awesome-- on one rainy day, leaving school, I walked past some girl with the most awesome Doraemon umbrella. I smiled.
Its not an offical shirt. I got it from ebay. It looks much better in person.
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I got my first anime related t-shirt with the Kannagi DVD's. I wouldn't wear it in public or in school really because even the medium is too big on me and I would want to be able to work it into my ensemble haha. I wore it once at home when I was sick, does that count? I have a problem with anime t-shirts with characters on them because I find I just stare at my shirt in the mirror because it's like, OH HEY LOOK SHINY. Too distracting for myself haha.
I sometimes shudder to think of how much goobery stuff I would own had I the moneys. Unfortunately (fortunately?) I'm rockin' the whole wife-kids-bills trip, so I can afford NOTHING. However, someday I will be retired... OLD GEEK AT THE CON ALERT!!! BEWARE! BEWARE! I can just see me... 65, wrinkled, mischievous/perverted grin on my grizzled maw, hasslin' the cutie-pies... good times.
Dark, sadly white T-shirts are never popular enough for us, we've tried several times and nearly always they're not popular enough to keep printing. We pre-print all of these (not "just in time" or anything) so having a single color is generally what we have to go with. Do you like the tan of the Hachiko shirt? (http://jlist.com/s/dog1)
I regularly wear a t-shirt that says "Everything I know about life I learned from reading shoujo manga." (For those who don't know, it's a Megatokyo shirt.)
I don't really have any other clothing that expresses my otakuism, though if I did I would probably wear it as regularly as any of my other clothing.
The one you've mentioned is one of those shirts I would wear regularly.
...Y'know, I could probably just replace most of my t-shirts with otaku ones and it would work out.
Most of my t-shirts I got from special edition DVDs - Eureka Seven, IGPX, Gundam Seed Destiny (DON'T SAY IT), and the first Lucky Star one which I plan on burning sometime eventually. All but that last one I wear interspersed the rest of my shirts, though I also have two con shirts and some video game ones.
Every once in a while I see incredibly awesome ones I would buy in a heartbeat on HobbySearch if I could afford the out of country S&H on top of the crappy exchange rate, but alas.
This one however seems quite awesome. I'll probably get it too once my next paycheck comes in since I'm a big Kugimiya (and definitely Tsundere) fan. My only issue is I wish I knew what the kanji in the middle column of the front was since inevitably someone in my extended family will ask me what it all says.
I feel that poll was a little lop sided or just had a loaded question. "No, I dress like a "normal" and "respectable" person." makes it seem like if you pick it you wouldn't be normal or respected for reppin' the Otaku wares, but what if that is normal for you?
Most of what I wear is videogame/internet/band related (stuff like J!nx, or webcomics when it isn't "obvious"), but I do have one shirt that may be going a bit too far... A black shirt with a white silhouette of Gazette, with the name written in english characters and then with some smaller writing in japanese underneath.
Barring the fact that there happens to be a bit of japanese text on it, the shirt doesn't look at all out of place, but I think people still look at me funny. Oh well!
I have a couple Transformers shirts,does that count? I used to wear two different Trigun T-shirts,but they're pretty old now,so they're out of rotation. Oh and I have Godzilla and Space Invaders ones.
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