they didn't see the classics but know every name of the cast of the remake!
here, in france we have 3 kinds of "otaku" :
- the classic one : he know ALL (like the number of color used for any of the frame of an episode) of OLD anime (like Lupin, Candy, Tsubasa) and look at the new stuff with a "what a pity!" in his face
- the baka one : he "loves" anime, it's anime, it's japanese, so it's cool...even if it's poorly animated, badly voiced,etc...he knows ALL the anime ...all since 2000
- the hidden one, like myself, who try to find in the old and the new anime some hidden treasure! he found the anime with classic like Akira or BGC but try to make HIS choice of what he want to see. I call him the hidden one because you won't see him in a convention, sometimes in shop, but rarely...he prefers the Net
on my collection, i have classic like Akira, BGC, Ghibli's, KOR, Harlock, Cobra, Patlabor's, some old (but not classic) like Perfect Blue, GITS, and some new like Fruits Basket, Gravitation.
I like stuff like PingPong Club and Jungle Leo.