Recently in my COM class I've been assigned a paper to do on a subculture. Couldn't help but start thinking about anime as a subculture. So I thought I'd get a little dialogue going and see if this could generate an interesting discussion (and maybe give me a few qoutes to borrow for my paper).

What defines anime as a subculture? Where does anime draw it's appeal from? How does one participate within the anime subculture and most importantly how has the anime culture come to influence mainstream culture. These are a few of the questions that I can come up with off the top of my head but there are many others. I hope that this will be the start of a nice intelligent discussion and I can't wait to see what you guys have to say. So do a little bit of self-reflection and think about what you have to say. Also please take this somewhat seriously and put some thought into your posts.