How many people took Japanese classes in high school/college or taught themselves Japanese because of anime?
I took a year of Japanese courses in college because of my interest in anime before I dropped it because I couldnt fit it into my schedule for the following year. But before I took the class, I had picked up a few words, phrases, and sentence structure stuff from having watched enough anime, such as the differences between 'watashi', 'boku', and 'ore', the numbers up to 10,000,000, and just a random vocabulary of attack names and such (like Rasengan = Spiral Ball, Zangetsu = Cutting Moon, Onigiri = Rice Ball or Demon Cut)
