15 Celebrities We Weren't Expecting to be Anime Fans

Picture, if you will, an anime convention. The smell of overpriced popcorn, greasy convention hot dogs, and body odor (among other bodily betrayals) wafts in the air. You’re gathered together with fellow otaku to visit vendors selling Japanese snacks, seeing great cosplay costumes, and just generally geeking out. As you put down some cash to get a Roronoa Zoro figurine, you see him.

It couldn’t be, but it is. It’s that one guy! From that one thing!

Yes, celebrities are indeed just like us (at least when it comes to anime). As more and more anime shows get attempts at mainstream adaptations and as a generation of Americans adults emerges that grew up watching Dragon Ball Z, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, and several other English dubs that aired on American TV, there are more and more celebrities that are into the same weaboo stuff you’re into. Here are a few of them.