[Banzai]

Your Japanese class must be full of otaku's. Maybe where you live is aswell. Maybe just a bunch of anime fans. If someone like a coach would be saying something about you liking anime just because your going to Japan must mean that he knows or has a kid who has interests in Japan and anime. Just what I think. Personally, I do like anime and I seem to run into it in Japan more often than I expect. Of course that ain't the reason. I'm really amused by the life style in Japan. Their culture and festivals. The random happy faces you would see in like many instruction manuals. I myself don't get any weird reactions about people telling me I like anime just because I was in Japan. So I don't know, there was maybe a bunch of popular kids were you lived and they liked anime so others carried on that fandom.