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You call your dog Shinji.
You perform a cannon ball dive into a pool while yelling, "Spirit Bomb!"
Your house has an anime room.
You and your friends flash peace signs and take girlish poses when you are happy.
You get an anime tattoo... Even though you're scared of needles.
Your walls are covered in wall scrolls and posters from your favorite series.
If you use the term 'kawaii' for describing everything.
You try to convince your girlfriend that cat ears and a tail really looks good on them.
You can sing songs from your favorite shows in Japanese even though you don't speak Japanese.
You spent hours looking through your library for a copy of "The Universe of Four Gods".
You have legally changed your name to that of your favorite character.
You wear a necklace and fall down every time somebody says, "sit, boy!"
You insist on having an entrance that includes spotlights, music, and raining cherry blossoms (while you hold a rose if you're a guy).
Your only dream is to attend Tokyo U with a girl you haven't seen in fifteen years.
You play an instrument and you nickname it Inu Yasha.
For Valentine's Day you buy a stuffed dog and make up your own Japanese name for it.
If you get mad at your teacher and draw a picture of him/her as an anime demon cat.
You watch Iron Chef constantly to pick up great recipes.
You've bought a twenty dollar ring in the shape of a dragon to show off at school.
You always have your hair covering your left eye and always flipping it so you look like an anime character.
You think that falling flat on your back with your legs in the air is a normal reaction to big news.
You are worried because you don't have several desirable members of the opposite sex frantically trying to make you fall in love with them.
You shave a crescent moon onto your cat's head, dye the cat purple, then take it to school and insist it's Luna, your talking cat.
You go around town trying to eat donuts and act all crazy-like, all the while saying you're Vash the Stampede.
To resolve a conflict you insist on a duel.
The employees at Game Stop know you and tell you when you walk in if they've gotten a new shipment of anime DVD's.
You've gotten angry at someone, placed two fingers on your forehead, shouted the word "Makanekasopo!" ("special beam cannon" or "light of death" wink and then poked them in the eye.
You waist countless amounts of hair gel to get that "Goku look".
You map out points in Tokyo where the Dragon's of Earth might attack.
You believe it is possible for a person to be severely beaten in the head with a large hammer, stick, etc.... and still come out of it alive.
You have a moment of confusion whenever you go to school because there are no girls in those tiny little skirts that come with their school uniform.
You yell out "Baka hanyou Inu Yasha!" at your birthday party and everyone (except your parents) knows you're talking to your boyfriend.
You tell your parents you need to stay out past curfew to save the colonies.
Each time you see a stray animal you turn your hat sideways and throw one of those plastic Pokeballs Burger King was giving out in their kid's meals and yell, "POKEBALL, GO!"
You add "no da" (or "dattebayo" depending) to the end of all the statements you make.
The majority of your CDs are Japanese or the English version of a Japanese soundtrack or the English soundtrack of an anime that just decided that it would use English in its songs.
You misplace your manga and someone at school you don't even know gives it to you saying they knew it was yours.
You incorporate Japanese somehow into every class.
You use random Japanese words such as baka, kawaii, and hentai.
You try to read every book from right to left.
You take a break from watching anime to go to your computer (nicknamed Lord Conti) to download more anime (for previewing purposes only!), while visiting your favorite anime forum and listening to Japanese web radio.
You call your parents Oka-san and Otou-san.
You say ITADAKIMASU! before you eat your meals.
You think that locket your boyfriend gave you will turn you into a magical girl.
You'll risk grounding to get a good new fan-fic.
You constantly say "woop" after almost every sentence.
You insist on chopsticks for everyday use.
Your bookshelf is filled with anime boxed sets and no books. (Or is filled with manga like mine. ^^)
You stop listening to the radio because English makes no sense to you anymore and it's your first spoken language.
You call yourself an otaku.
All of your family portraits have been altered to the proper super large eye size.
Random battles seem to erupt wherever you go.
You take the time to write messages on your cigarettes, only to burn them right away.
Your dreams are animated.
You Naru punch all the guys at school and then wonder why they don't follow you around like Keitaro follows Naru.
You hold your eyes really wide all day trying to make them stay big.
Duct tape is really funny to you and most of your threats involve taping people to walls.
When you're washing dishes you yell, "SUPAH WAVE SMASHUH!" or any water attack.
You run out of space on your computer because the hard drive is taken up by hundreds of anime pics, mp3s, midis, and music videos.
You spend all night trying to figure out how many people you can get to go in with you on buying the complete collection of Sailor Moon episodes in Japanese.
You spend your whole spring break working on an anime webpage.
You expect to see a teardrop over someone's head when they get embarrassed.
You start to speak with an odd accent.
You can watch two anime shows in the same room at the same time and still have the TV off.
You know your favorite character's blood type.
Knowing Sailor Moon helps you on an Astronomy test.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to anime.

(Don't forget to leave a comment in this entry if you think of even more ways to tell if you're addicted to anime.)