RUNNER-UP:

Dear Akadot,

Am I "the World's Biggest Otaku?" Or, am I at least the biggest otaku responding to your site?

* I only watch subs.
* I now only buy DVDs.
* I'm writing this to you at 3:40 in the morning.
* I belong to twelve anime related mailing lists (though only nine are active), which I will admit to using machine assistance to read (I only read threads involving posters I believe have a clue).
* I frequent three anime related news sites.
* I am a fan of the Japanese language. That is, I have made no serious effort to learn the language, but I do take time to learn about it.
* I've been known to browse Japanese web sites via machine translation.
* I run an opinion site (http://anime.mikomi.org/).
* I manually went through all the tracks on the Tenchi OAV DVD set and labeled each one (http://turner.mikomi.org/tenchi/ova_dvd.txt), just so that I could conclusively label the "hidden" tracks (there was only one).
* I went through the Tenchi OAV DVD and captured and knitted together almost all of the pan shots in it (http://turner.mikomi.org/tenchi/pans1-1.html).
* I wrote an "Otaku Code" encoder/decoder CGI (http://turner.mikomi.org/otakode.cgi).
* I translated an AIC questionnaire without being able to read Japanese. (http://turner.mikomi.org/ques2cooked.html)
* I host Aldrich Bautista's Tenchi Muyo Fanfiction Archive (http://www.tmffa.com/) and Mark Clifton's washu.org and sakuya.org.
* I made myself a local/private copy of "Reiko-chan's Japanese for Anime Lovers" (http://reikos.dragonfire.net/jal/jal-home.htm) just in case it ever went down.
* I have an almost complete archive of the FFML on my machine that I intend to index and make public real soon now (It's about 1.1 gigs.).
* I have about 140 anime DVDs and probably as many VHS tapes.
* I bought a second DVD player just to be able to play region two discs.
* I own a Ryo-ohki plush. But then, who doesn't?
* I have a modest cel collection.
* I've bought fan-art.
* I have several wall scrolls. At any given time one hangs at home and one hangs at work.
* I have a small collection of art books (about seven).
* I have a small collection of domestic manga (about seven).
* My music collection mostly consists of anime sound track CDs.
* Way too much of my food comes from www.japanesesnacks.com. (It's because of this that my co-workers are now very wary about accepting food from me, always asking questions like: "What is it made of? Is it fish flavored?"
* I own a copy of O'Reilly's "Blowfish" book, CJKV Information Processing (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cjkvinfo/), a.k.a. how to use Asian languages on computers.
* Since I'm also a Perl programmer, I have to consider Jeffrey Friedl a god. He created the web edict (Japanese<=>English dictionary) interface at http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/dict, and also wrote the O'Reilly regular expressions book (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/).

Andy Turner