Maybe I'm wrong, but it's occured to me that the culture in Japan towards anime is the same as the culture in America. Except perhaps the American culture is wilder. Groups of "geeks" are usually the people who are into it. Trying to make prove or disprove that it is more than just an activity for us social outcasts is to try to make us feel better about our current miserable dispositions.

It's not bad, being a geek.