- Jan Scott Frazier: The direct um, translation of the term Otaku is it's a a very polite term of the word 'You'.
- Self - Adult Voice Over Actress: I like the Anime fans a lot better then the mainstream Adult fans because uh, the Anime fans tend to be a bit geekier. Which appeals to be because I'm a hardcore computer geek myself.
- Helen McCarthy: We all have that experience seeing Anime on TV as kids in the 60's and 70's, um, we've all seen the fans both in our age group and younger, and we all decided we need to put this energy together and so spontaneously, it just seemed to have happened, that groups who had the opportunity to do that had the time, perhaps also because this is an issue with a lot of fans didn't have family commitments that stopped just doing it; just started fandom just happened.