i'm actually really interested in reading this, and no oel stuff has caught my eye before. i love, say, genshiken and otaku no video and stuff, and i think any fan can connect to those sorts of behaviors on a very general level. but american anime fans (try as they might) are in a different subculture than japanese otaku. the details are all different. if we were really in the same market, with the same tastes, hellsing would have been a modest success and uc gundam would have sold millions. nobody's talking about OUR subculture, see, and (being an equally bizarre pile of wonderful crazy) it's worth talking about.