Yeah, my friends who've really gotten into anime tell me similar things. I have the weirdest disconnect with comics and anime -- I love them both (I mean, I love them!) but not in a fannish way. Like, I can't see reading fic or vidding or writing... I have no idea why. Though if they ever made an animated version of The Authority (or Dark Knight or Watchmen) I could see vidding... for some reason I seem to only connect on a fannish level with live action characters. I can't figure out why, it makes no sense to me. So I'm envious of the people who get that out of the anime and manga world, becuase it seems to be a really happening place right now.