You know you've been watching too much Saitoh Hajime when...

created by Mibu no Ookami

 

You get an Aku Soku Zan tattoo.

You force friends and family to watch Saitou’s fights until they, too, acknowledge his supremeness.

You’ve dyed your hair black, and discovered that glue works much better then gel to get those four, perfect, hanging pieces in the front.

You get amber contact lenses.

You’ve been caught practicing your gatotsu stance when you thought no one was looking.

In fact, you like it so much when people annoy you, you will attempt to gatotsu them with whatever’s hand - like a frying pan, your hairbrush, or the remote control.

You practice his sneering in the mirror.

You’ve taken to lurking around places, leaning in the shadows with a lit cigarette.

As a matter of fact, you’re really pissed of at the Smoking Man from the X-files trying to rip off Saitou’s lurking/smoking tendencies.

Your automatic response to any remarks on your obsessed behavior is "Ahou".

You wait for people to offer you sake, then decline just to use Hajime’s kick ass line!

When out eating, even when you want eel, you only order soba.

You’ve tried wearing platform shoes hoping to be as tall as he is.

People are worried because you’ve started to turn your room into an exact replica of his office.

You use any opportunity to point out Saitou could kick anyone’s ass. 

After stating this, you get into lengthy arguments defending your position. "I don’t care if they have nuclear weapons or not, Saitou could still kick their ass!"

You spend your free time collecting items necessary to complete your ultimate Shinsengumi Saitou Hajime / Fujita Gorou costume.

You make one of these freaking lists.

You begin memorizing Saitou’s lines so you can use them to scare your friends.

You dream of meeting Tokio at a convention so you can kick her ass for never updating Mibu no Ookami.

You feel obligated to incorporate the teachings of the Shinsengumi into your life.

You have a pair of white uniform gloves in a case and swear they are his.

You have the dentist grind/manipulate your teeth so you can have those fangs of his.

You just about pass out when he does his battle cry.

You start an on-line petition to change "Rurouni Kenshin" to "moto-Shinsengumi-sanbantai-kumichou Saitou Hajime".

You look for any excuse to say Aku Soku Zan.

You make a Saitou-ish website

You take up smoking, even though it’s bad for you, because he makes it look so good.

Anyone who dares point out that Saitou is only an anime character gets a 20 minute lecture (minimum) on the fact that he was a real guy.

You become fascinated with wolves.

You dream up merchandise that should be made, and write letters to companies suggesting they make them. "Saitou sneakers are a great idea. I’d buy at least fifteen pairs!"

You scour the internet searching for anything remotely Saitou-ish. A site on soba?! Me loves it!

You watch his fight scenes over and over again so you can play commentator to your friends...once they’ve earned the right to see your tapes, that is.

You annoyed everyone by insisting Saitou survived the Shishio explosion, much like you spent 17+ years insisting there was no way in hell Boba Fett would let that smegging Sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon finish him off.

You’ve had dreams about him, and blush when thinking about them.

You get caught scribbling / carving aku soku zan all over everything and anything.

You start wearing white gloves and an old police uniform everyday hoping people will catch on and start referring to you as Saitou-sama.

You join the Shinsengumi Kagetai

You draw little pictures of him in compromising positions.

Then you show someone the pictures and call him "Kawaii" affectionately much to the dismay of sane people nearby.

You’ve watched episodes 28-31 over 50 times...this week alone!

You’ve taken a shine to Chou ever since he started hanging out with Hajime.

You spend time looking for men to dress and mold into Saitou-sama so you can have one of your very own.

You’ve named all his sneers, and when people tell you "That’s lame!" you hit them with sneer #31.

You’ve taken to cheering or howling whenever he comes on screen.

You can talk about just his teeth for at least 5 hours.

You pay homage to Saitou-sama daily in a shrine in the locked section of your basement. You know, the room with all the candles, an altar holding a katana he might have looked at once, and his theme music playing? We’ve seen you going in there wearing a shinto shrine maiden outfit.

Add ten points to the insanity level if you’re a guy in that outfit in your basement.

You get into fights on the mailing list over who loves him more, and get really pissed when Tokio actually posts, saying she wins hands down, and anyone who disagrees will find themselves off the list.

You have something to add to this list.

You visit this site daily eventhough you know Tokio doesn't update it regularly.

You draw saito-sama's kanji everywhere you go...much to the school janitor's dismay

Download everything possible from all Saitoh websites.

Stay up til 2 in the morning reading the list and checking out the website.

Pull your groin muscle trying to do the Gatosu.

You made your own Aku, Zoku, Zan T-shirts and wore them to conventions

You've cosplayed as Saitoh/Fujita Goro and refuse to ever cosplay again as anyone else.

You no longer light cig's with a lighter. You use those boxed matches because they look cooler.

You haven't had a hair cut in 4 months but your gel usage skyrocketed.

You have ever gatosou'ed a moving vehicle (ie: a Public Transprotation Bus...)

You regularly gatosou your friends because you feel they've insulted you or Saitoh in some way...

You know and regularly practice all of Saitoh's techniques...

You have ever used the gatosou stance while driving at 40+ mph...

Your brother jumps out from around the corner doing a fake attack with twin Wakizashi, and you do gatotsu with a mop.

Two days later, your brother does it again with Tofans, and you KOed him with a Boken, using gatotsu, and watch episode 28-31 24 hours a day :)

You start crying out when he takes off his police shirt

When you begin to write Saito's fanfics...

When you look your parents smoking just to see if they smoke as cool as Saito does

When you sees the film "Tora Tora" and remenber Saito because of the blue japanese uniforms with white gloves

You cosplayed as Saitou once....and have yet to stop, despite the fact that the convention was four months ago.

You buy a pack of smokes and let them burn just to see if you can make the ashes look as good as he makes it look

When you have dreams of getting drunk and going around killing "bad" politicians...

You cosplayed as Saitou once...and have yet to stop, despite the fact that the convention was four months ago.

When begin to rain, and you say to your friend: "It´s gonna rain". And you begin to look for a police with katana.

You pick a fight with any long, red-haired guys you meet.

You lecture your friends for hours on how Saitou escaped the explosion at Shishio's fortress.

You had your little brother dress and act like Sano so that you can treat him like an Ahou.

You giggle and blush everytime some one mentions his name

You practice saying ahou so you can say it just like Saitoh sama.

You spend you're entire lunch break finding RK websites that have character polls and loading them up with as many Saitou votes as possible. In doing so, you forget to eat your lunch...

You've named your best bowling ball Aku Soku Zan, and your second best Gatotsu.

You've also convinced your teammates that the proper response to a strike is not incoherent screaming, but a coldly-growled "Aku... Soku... Zan."

You stay up late at night and look at people intensely so that your eyes would be molded into saitou's dark and sexy squint