Here, the highschool cliques or various interests groups are pretty mellow or accepting toward each other. There’s hardly any bullying between factions. The only times anything bad happens is if a shoe is stepped on purposely, so to speak. So, while it wasn’t really encouraged, it was ok to be into the many obsessions that various Otakus (We weren’t labeled as that from our peers, but there is no other word to use. The words nerd/freaks/geeks wasn’t used at all... the only reason why we know about it is due to the highschool kids we seen on T.v. Who we all thought, as a whole island community, were dumb and lame, and needed to chill.) It was a proper place for our kind to proser.
As mentioned, we were both Otakus with a very wide veriaty of experiences. Our philosophies concerning the trade were pretty similar: Taste as many different flavors as you can. While some of our kind chose a specific obsession, stuck with it and mastered it (like different gamers, fanfiction writers, manga readers, anime watchers, forum gurus), the two of us did all of that and more, just in small increments.