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I Otaku ; Identifying as a J-culture enthusiast
by Colette Bennett
[ When I first started watching anime, I had never heard of the word otaku. However, in 1983 Japanese author Akio Nakamori wrote a little series called "An Investigation of Otaku" in loli manga mag Manga Burikko, and the word caught on as a Japanese slang word referring to a person with an obsessive interest, specifically in manga, anime or videogames. Sound familiar?
One thing a lot of American Japanophiles may not know, however, is that otaku is often considered a disparaging term by the Japanese. ]
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"Uh-Oh.... Thousands of Iranian Women Training to Become Ninjas"
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( part of a world wide movement ? ) - 4 months ago
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Otaku revolution ! ! !
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pjacobs51:
. . .how do you say " G U I L L O T I N E ! " in Japanese ???
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I'm PRETTY sure this is Otaku - - -
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THIS,....IS Otaku !
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definitely Otaku
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THIS is an "American" Otaku, as described by the artist, . . . .but is IT "Otaku". ?!?
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Wikipedia talks about Otaku -
ETYMOLOGY >
Otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another's house or family (お宅, otaku), which is also used as an honorific second-person pronoun. The modern slang form, which is distinguished from the older usage by being written only in hiragana (おたく) or katakana (オタク or, less frequently, ヲタク), or rarely in rōmaji, appeared in the 1980s. In the anime Macross, first aired in 1982, the term was used by Lynn Minmay as an honorific term.[1][2] It appears to have been coined by the humorist and essayist Akio Nakamori in his 1983 series An Investigation of "Otaku" (『おたく』の研究 "Otaku" no Kenkyū?), printed in the lolicon magazine Manga Burikko. Animators like Haruhiko Mikimoto and Shōji Kawamori used the term among themselves as an honorific second-person pronoun since the late 1970s.[2]
Another source for the term comes from the works of science fiction author Motoko Arai. In his book Wrong about Japan, Peter Carey interviews the novelist, artist and Gundam chronicler Yuka Minakawa. She reveals that Arai used the word in her novels as a second-person pronoun, and the readers adopted the term for themselves-continued
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http://blog.cleartranquil.com/2008/05/my-room-is-otaku-museum.html - 4 months ago
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. . . .but Kaiju ARE Otaku for sure !
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ULTRAMEN are Otaku ! HUZZAH !
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Gundam are Otaku -
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all SORTS of weirdness is OTAKU -
( . . . . don't ask ME to explain ! ) - 4 months ago
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Very aesthetic.
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