When i was younger all i used to watch shounen but now idk if its because i grew up now i only watch shoujo... also my family says im not a otaku because i only watch niche things instead of the mainstream lol boys what do you think a real otaku is?

I got into anime by watching a little bit of everything (except for well-known series like One Piece or Naruto), and that's still the case.
Now I watch more older anime (from the '70s to the '90s)
However, my guilty pleasure is romance anime www
I think I've seen pretty much everything (except the really bad ones)

When it comes to manga, I read them occasionally
Unfortunately most of the ones I want to read aren't available in French (or even English in some cases).
And the only type of media I don't mind reading in English are visual novels, because I have no choice www

>>2 for me was a love for godzilla/anpanman at 5!! and i like to pretend im the heroine www

battle harems then yuri for me, but I don't watch anime any more. I mostly read comedy and horror manga now.

Grew up with 4kids pokemon and yugioh, secretly enjoyed haruhi in middle/highschool then watched mostly "psychological horror" denpa-coded shit. I dont watch much of anything now, but considering reading some old PC98 VNs and maybe whatever VNs have been ported to PS Vita. Will take Recommendations!

It's called Japanimation, thank you

>>5 everything i mostly watch is from the early heisei era as in doremi, precure, kaitou jenne ect when i was 9 i got into yaoi... never was into yuri or harems >>4

a real otaku is obsessive to an extent
being casually into mainstream anime isn't very otaku
while being heavily into into old-school shoujo is

that being said, being obsessive about mainstream anime would also be quite otaku
there has to be some amount of deep passion

>>8i dont watch mainstream much but alot of old shoujo 70s-2010s i watch alot niche things on anikai