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This was an eye opener for me, although it had appeared earlier in an Anime/Manga thread. There seem to be many varieties of life styles or mind sets that can be classified as Otaku-ish. Are you an Otaku, and if so, exactly what kind of otaku are you ?
1. Otaku Incarnate: I shun social life. I extremely & positively identify with my inner world.
2. The Otaku Original: heavily & exclusively into manga/anime
3. The Otaku Soft-Core: heavily, but not exclusively into manga/anime
4. An Otaku Japan-Centered: evenly distributed interest, but all Japanese
5. An Otaku Asia-Centered: evenly distributed around several Asian cultures
6. An Otaku Escapist: evenly distributed around anything not my country.
7. An Otaku Cosmopolitan: indiscriminately distributed around the world
8. An Otaku Nationalistic: more oriented towards my own culture. (non-Japanese)
9. I am Otaku, but not by these standards. (Please post how you differ.)
10. I am not addicted or skewed at all; I lead a perfectly normal, tasteless life.
OneLang.com definition of What is Otaku ?
1. Scared I am Otaku
2. Otaku: Proud of it
The full text, The Japan Times(The Zeit Geist), April 6, 2004 Otaku Proud of It by Tony McNicol:
This was an eye opener for me, although it had appeared earlier in an Anime/Manga thread. There seem to be many varieties of life styles or mind sets that can be classified as Otaku-ish. Are you an Otaku, and if so, exactly what kind of otaku are you ?
1. Otaku Incarnate: I shun social life. I extremely & positively identify with my inner world.
2. The Otaku Original: heavily & exclusively into manga/anime
3. The Otaku Soft-Core: heavily, but not exclusively into manga/anime
4. An Otaku Japan-Centered: evenly distributed interest, but all Japanese
5. An Otaku Asia-Centered: evenly distributed around several Asian cultures
6. An Otaku Escapist: evenly distributed around anything not my country.
7. An Otaku Cosmopolitan: indiscriminately distributed around the world
8. An Otaku Nationalistic: more oriented towards my own culture. (non-Japanese)
9. I am Otaku, but not by these standards. (Please post how you differ.)
10. I am not addicted or skewed at all; I lead a perfectly normal, tasteless life.
OneLang.com definition of What is Otaku ?
Earlier discussions on being Otaku:In modern Japanese slang, therefore, an otaku is an obsessive fan of any one particular theme, topic, or hobby.
Perhaps the most common uses are anime otaku (who sometimes enjoys many days of excessive anime watching with no rest) and manga otaku (a fan of Japanese comic books).
Japanese culture has many other varieties, such as pasokon otaku (personal computer geeks), gēmu otaku (playing video games), and otaku that are extreme fans of idols, heavily promoted singing girls.
While these are the most common uses of otaku, the word can be applied to literally anything. Thus, one could have music otaku, martial arts otaku, cooking otaku, train otaku (metrophiles) et cetera.
1. Scared I am Otaku
2. Otaku: Proud of it
The full text, The Japan Times(The Zeit Geist), April 6, 2004 Otaku Proud of It by Tony McNicol:
Around 60 percent of the shop's customers are 25- to 35-year-old men. Many are the kind of people, as Nakayasu puts it, who "try to cut out living, clothing and food costs (and) devote the maximum energy, time and money to their hobbies." "As a result, their life doesn't look that rich, but actually they have a huge collection of stuff that normal people wouldn't understand."
Not that most otaku had any particular desire to be understood by society, believes Azuma Hiroyuki, a social critic and writer on otaku culture. "Otaku is widely regarded as a kind of detachment from politics, from social activity. It's very different from real Japanese politics and society."
"This kind of detachment was more and more supported by youth from the 70s. I think it was because of their failure to engage in politics in the late 60s." In other parts of the world, post-1960s disillusionment turned young people toward politicized movements like punk. In Japan, many young people retreated far into a dream-world of sickly cute and violent sexually-explicit manga and anime.
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