While my drafts were becoming more and more complicated, I decided to crank it down some and go with a little more simplistic approach:
The key indicates what sort of "province" every color represents, or the degree of obsession of a fan within their particular fandom. As you can see, the train tracks that travel amongst many of the "provinces" of the island has become "derailed" at some point after entering the "Otaku" territory. This indicates the difficulty that some people have to "pull away" from their particular anime obsession, and how bleak it can be to fall into this type of state.
To underline my point further I did an alternate elevation map of the island of Fandom to further indicate the "peak's" and "absolute lows" that an obsession with anime can elicit. Notice how there is a ring of grossly high elevation (mountains) that ring around the sub-sealevel pit that marks the "Otaku" territory. These mountains are representative of what people who aren't associated with that type of fandom "see" when they look on people with an Otaku complex; something insurmountable and grossly overblown, something that seems wholly inaccessible. In short, it becomes unthinkable that someone could fall into such a state of absolute addiction.
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