Product Description

Everything you ever wanted to know about being (not becoming) an anime character, now available in this book! Eating until your stomach outweighs the rest of you. Answers to age old questions like "Why do spaceships burn... in space?" Holding down a job when you also have to save the city. And surviving a date! Learn all this and more! Every clich'e in anime is catalogued and explained from how to date a demon to telling if you are in a hentai anime. No anime fan should be without this book!

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Product Details

Publisher	CreateSpace
ISBN	1441451803
Number Of Pages	148
Format	Paperback
Author	Clayton Overstreet
EAN	9781441451804
Label	CreateSpace
Studio	CreateSpace
Title	How To Be An Anime Character
Publication Date	2009-01-13
Manufacturer	CreateSpace

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Customer Reviews

All I needed to know to be awesome!

Review by M. Vernetti, 2010-04-14

Four people prior to me have whined, and cried, and moaned "This book didn't make me into an anime character!" If you would please read the book's description, it says, and I quote EXACTLY: "Everything you ever wanted to know about being (NOT BECOMING) an anime character..." Bakas aside, this book is really quite nice. >^.^< After just reading a few pages, I was both entertained, and looking to improve my game. It's funny in spots and has the rules of Anime nicely put in words even a blonde can understand.
**Fullmetal Alchemist Fangirl**

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A Waste of Money

Review by Given Morris "Ryo Misaki", 2009-10-05

This book was a complete and total waste of money. I bought this book expecting to truly become an anime character, but I did not become an anime at all! Did my katana skills improve? No! Did I lose 150lbs and grow straight black hair? No! Save your money for Miracle Whip, because this is not worth it at all!

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This Book Sucks!!!!!!!!

Review by Ann E. May, 2009-10-05

I am FURIOUS at this book. AND ESPECIALLY ITS WRITER. I mean I just want to be an anime in real life just like everyone else and imagine my glee and joy when amazon suggested this book to me. I ordered right away with overnight shipping and dreamed dreams of my anime reality finally becoming well, a reality. But then disaster struck. I was heartbroken. I read the book again and again and again. I couldn't believe my eyes. There was nothing in it that helped me realize my dream. I couldn't stand it. I got out my katana and sliced the book in two in a vain effort to restore some of my lost honor and then burned the two halves to get rid of all evidence of it. I think the writer should be horribly ashamed for this. This isn't helpful at all. I just want to live the anime reality out. Is that really too much to ask? I swear though. If I find you in real life Clayton Overstreet, I will fight you. I need to restore my lost honor. It's the only way I will be back on the path to becoming an anime. You destroyed my dreams Clayton. I hate you Clayton. I hate you.

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Worst book I've ever read... PLEASE READ

Review by C Katrenak, 2009-10-05

As a long time fan of anime, I figured I would give Mr. Overstreet's book a read. It starts off okay- a few general statements about the otaku culture, some sushi recipes, anime make-up tutorials. But around page 20 or so, things go sour. Overstreet's tone darkens, and the overall mood becomes depressing. I don't mean sad, I mean downright OVERBEARING. This book put me in a dark mood for a 9-month period, during which I was fired from my job, my waifu left me, and my dog, Ein, died because I was too lethargic to even feed him. I became very ill, refused to eat anything and sometimes laid on my couch for days on end. If it wasn't for the divine inspiration I received through experiencing Ronald D. Moore's re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, I would probably be dead right now thanks to Clayton Overstreet. Sometimes when I try to go sleep at night... I close my eyes, and I see those dark red anime eyes that embellish the spine-chilling cover of this dreadful book which ruined my life.

PROS:
Good binding
Quality paper
Sufficient use of Comic Sans font

CONS:
Some diagrams hard to read
Does not fit on bookshelf
Oh dear god what have I done Theresa i'm so sorry

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Rename this book to "Clayton Overstreet: A Man Without Honor"

Review by Brandon Acumen, 2009-10-05

This book is absolutely terrible. I followed every step and found myself no closer to achieving my dream of becoming a true anime character. I am a genius, an athlete, an artist, a writer, a gamer, a fighter and first and foremost, I am a competitor. Notice anything missing from that list? That's right, I'm still not an anime character. Clayton, I think you should remove this book from Amazon for blatant false advertisement. Perhaps you would be better suited to continuing your online fanfics.

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