Finding Otaku Friends In Real Life

Where I live, there are NO Otaku or Fujoshi. It's is truly a deserted land....a NO OTAKU'S LAND. Although............I DID find one person who was into anime and ACTUALLY WATCHED IT AND READ MANGA. Thank goodness......

Try www.meetup.com and see if there is an anime interest (or any other interest group) that you think would click with you. Or if you are very adventurous, you can start the group and there are likely people around your area that have been waiting for a group to start up.

Cons are a good start. If you're in college, a lot of schools have anime clubs already or take the bull by the horns and start one yourself if there isn't one. I don't necessarily recommend creeping the manga section at your local comic or bookstore, but I've definitely seen otaku there plenty of times. It's pretty tough to cold turkey approach someone out of the blue in a public place like that. Especially in this whole era of #metoo and some people not wanting to talk to rando people. Just be conscious of that when trying to chat up random strangers.