Yesterday I went to a talk by the "Otaking" himself-- Toshio Okada, co-founder of the Gainax animation company. The talk was in Japanese (which I did not expect), with some student translators. There was lots of laughing over jokes which went over my head. My poor little Japanese I mind could only pick up words like "omosiroi" (interesting), "tyotto" (a little bit), and "zya nai" (a negation phrase).


But I am inspired now. Gainax was founded by "otaku"s---obsessed fans who started off doing it just for fun. Maybe I can start up an animation studio too ^^!