[MissMisa]

I don't think I have a distorted view at all. I've been on here long enough and read enough to have a fairly good idea. A lot of people here are living in a Japan and have posted about their experiances, which I think is probably the most accurate picture that can be painted - actual experiance. I never once believed anime or manga was extremely popular there, it is more popular than here, but like you'd be seen as a geek for liking that stuff here, you'd be seen as an 'otaku' there. I never believed it was so popular, the same with the fashions, because of how unpopular they are here. I could never imagine that it would be different anywhere else. Turns out, it's pretty much right. There are some things I don't like about Japan, and some things I probably won't like when I visit. All in all I think I'm looking at it pretty realistically because that's how I look at most areas of life.