[Asakura]

I dunno, I grew up on Anime and Manga too, but wasn't the least bit interested in Japan until about 5 years ago (I'm 17) when I had a really good friend that tought me alot of stuff about th real Japan. At that point, I kinda learned to seperate fact from fiction.

If you want my honest opinion. The real Japan, not the fantasy world of Anime is truely interesting.

I can't claim to know what Japan is like, simply becouse I have never been there. But in all honesty, Japan isn't the "be all, end all" of my life. In fact I'm really leaning tward learning Korean instead of Japanese at this point (mostly becouse Japanese is a detriment to english teaching in Japan, they don't want your english being influenced.)

I think, as long as you know that you don't know, and that you don't hide it. You can find out the truth, and be truely knowlageable.