I don't like anime and don't get dates. Well, to be fair, I do like some, like Record of Lodoss War, or Hellsing, but I like classic western cartoon series and comics much better than manga anime. Anime, Manga and JRPGs seem to be good rolemodels for males who seem to be unable to express their feelings or put up with women in general. Allthough I have to say that the cliché is true for one of my best friends. He is nowhere near anything on the spectrum, he is just a small, beardy oddball phycisist who is totally into anything Japan, and he is even more inept at dealing with women than I am. His social ineptness in basically limited to that, but I think his... geekyness when it comes to Japan is not a huge turn on for most women. Not even for the women he used to go to college with. I know some of them, and boy, even though they are nerdy as hell, they seem to be... not that much attracted to his faible.