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When you can't pry yourself away from rewatching your favorite series to try something new:
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When you realize how effortless it would be for you to do your thesis on a 400-episode shounen character arc:
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When you try to make plans outside of anime, but your schedule won't allow for it:
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When your bishounen thirst has no chill:
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When you're in too deep to be anything but honest about your interests:
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When anime morphs into your one tried and true procrastination tool:
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When even under great duress, you prioritize your otaku habits over all else:
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When you realize that true friends don't judge lock screens or desktop backgrounds:
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When you know you will never stop at just one episode, but try to do it anyway:
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When you pine more for the release of OVAs than you do for other humans:
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When your friends and family are on the edge of staging interventions:
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When you've watched a series so many times that you don't even need to turn on the subs:
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When you stay up until three in the morning scouring the internet for your animated beloved:
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When you've got falling into a series obsession down to a science:
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When your obsessions begins to seep into your look:
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When people have endured your nonsense long enough to learn to speak your language:
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And when you're somehow in denial about your addiction, even though all evidence says otherwise: