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Omega Original Zero said:
Truly epic way to see things, I think the same like you Believe it!
Why the fuck are you even here...?
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To be fair, Narutards are technically otaku since they're obsessed with Naruto. It just doesn't make them very respectable in the otaku heirarchy.
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Atma said:
I find it hilarious you can't tell when someone agrees with you
It's all for the sake of fun Atma
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tB said:
Why the fuck are you even here...?
To have fun......?
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Omega Original Zero said:
It's all for the sake of fun Atma
You keep telling yourself that
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Bastille said:
To be fair, Narutards are technically otaku since they're obsessed with Naruto. It just doesn't make them very respectable in the otaku heirarchy.Yep...
I was once asked to join their cosplay team, but
i had to have a Naruto cosplay.They totally lost my respect after that.
Ever since that i stole pictures they've taken with
their Naruto cosplays and made demotivators that clearly
humiliate them.Posted 6 years ago # -
Okay let's aport something for the topic, here's a random pic of an otaku I found. It's demotivation time!
Welcome to the NHK!
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Oh shit it's Danny Choo......lol
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Damn! They even have their own magazine! What the Hell!!!
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Any American magazine for Anime is garbage.
Majority of them are gone anyway.
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I don't know, does this counts as Otaku?
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Meido_Guy said:
that's the ultimate thing that any otaku/geek/nerd/whatever would dream to hear at least once in his life, would it really bother you to move house and become my new neighbor? XD
Okay I'll be right over :D
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Why does "otaku" carry specific connotations now, that it didn't always?
For one thing, if you're having a conversation in English, it's unlikely that the word is going to be used outside of reference of Japan, as that is its origin. If no reference to Japan is made there are other perfectly useful words such as "nerd" or "geek" or "obsessive" that are in most people's active vocabulary.
Thus it's usually only going to be referred to in terms of stuff produced by Japan, which is going to be manga and anime, for example. Of course, the anime and manga that are household names outside of Japan are somewhat limited as the site has made note of on multiple occasions.
I assume that this is what the OP was trying to ask?
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......Lets see, I'm an Otaku, I love anime & Manga, I'm also a lolicon, and routinely fap to doujin....
I'm not overwieght, and have a small social life, it's small, but it does exist.
I'm only 18, also.
Ooooh, and I just bought my first figure, although I never buy anime, because usualy it's airing in Japan, or Funnymation has licenced it, and I would never buy anything from those clowns.
I do buy my manga though, unless I can't, because the amount of manga licenced is much smaller than the amount of anime licenced....Well, shonen anime, anyway.Posted 6 years ago # -
Well....my evolution to otaku has been a bit slow in the process:
1. I watched some Dragonball and read Doreamon manga when I was in primary school, but then it was no different compared to cartoons and western comics to me.
2. I first truly followed an anime series when Bleach was released in 2004. Since then I have watched many others online or bought. I never knew about the other facets of the otaku subculture like cosplay and figmas though, just watched anime.
3. 2006: Cosplayed for a Halloween party, but since I was one of the hosts and I was kind of "forced" by my housemates to do so.
3. 2007: I went to a video games convention and saw my first cosplay (of video game characters).
4. I came on Sankaku Complex earlier this year, and learned so many new otaku terms: I had never heard of a dakimakura before! Also during this time, I went for my first (albeit really small) Japanese cosplay event.
5. I then joined the forums and interacted with people I didn't know IRL for the first time.
6. Next month, I am going for my first major anime convention.
I am pretty open about my hobbies. Most people IRL knows about my otaku inclinations. I don't really have high power levels though, being slow to this process: I don't own any figmas, dakimakuras or even an anime poster.
There! That's my whole otaku bio.
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u noob
Anyways, it started when I played Tales of Symphonia back 4/5 years ago. I went on the internet to look up tips, and saw a forum for that. I lurked there for a bit and followed a link to fanfiction.net. I read a few Tales of Symphonia fics. I then discovered Naruto and read some Naruto fics. I then heard of some other animes through fanfiction.net. I eventually stumbled through the internets and learned all sorts of stuff like what Touhou was. And then I came to Sankaku. It was slow going at first. I think it is only in the past year or two that I really became obsessed.
Don't know whether to consider myself an otaku. The thing is, I'm not especially interested in one particular thing. I don't even watch that much anime or read much manga. I'm only watching K-On at the moment, for example, and my watched anime list is short. I'm more addicted to the internet itself as opposed to something like anime or manga. Also, not a fujoshi. Yaoi is good, but it isn't the most important thing... Not even 1%. Nor am I very interested in cosplaying, though I would want to try it someday.
Even though it is only the past year or so where I have been at this stage... It seems that I started really young x_x
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I think for us foreigners, to some extent, being an Otaku means preferring Eastern morality templates over the conventional Western (which basically means "christian") morality template.
Sure, there are plenty of Anime that anyone can enjoy, but when you've eventually gotten your feet wet with the more serious philosophical ones (Ergo Proxy, Gantz, Kino's Journey, Boogiepop Phantom, Infinite Ryvius, all of Yoshitoshi ABe's works, just to name about 2% of the good philosophical anime out there) then you begin to enter a decidedly non-Western way of viewing the world, art, reality, fiction, the future, etc.
Hell, there are even semi-popular Shounen shows that are mind trips (D. Gray-man, KIBA).
Not to mention all the wildly unconventional "dark zones" which have sprung from anime over time (loli/guro/incest, /d/, Horihone Saizo -this man is his own category-, etc).
This nonconformist, frequently labeled "disturbed" media that has grown around the term "Otaku"... I guess in the end it's about seeking a broader creative high. Stimulation; intellectual, sexual, philosophical, all with fewer creative limits. Otaku media is the greatest social "limit breaker", you might say :P
So, in sum, I'd say that "Otaku" means "outsider" more than it does any of its other connotations. Whether one resides in Japan, or wherever, if we call ourselves "Otaku", it is synonymous with declaring ourselves "outsiders".
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tl;dr-->Otakudom is a cultural island for the misfits and the dreamers.Posted 6 years ago # -
the envoy said:
Well....my evolution to otaku has been a bit slow in the process:1. I watched some Dragonball and read Doreamon manga when I was in primary school, but then it was no different compared to cartoons and western comics to me.
2. I first truly followed an anime series when Bleach was released in 2004. Since then I have watched many others online or bought. I never knew about the other facets of the otaku subculture like cosplay and figmas though, just watched anime.
3. 2006: Cosplayed for a Halloween party, but since I was one of the hosts and I was kind of "forced" by my housemates to do so.
3. 2007: I went to a video games convention and saw my first cosplay (of video game characters).
4. I came on Sankaku Complex earlier this year, and learned so many new otaku terms: I had never heard of a dakimakura before! Also during this time, I went for my first (albeit really small) Japanese cosplay event.
5. I then joined the forums and interacted with people I didn't know IRL for the first time.
6. Next month, I am going for my first major anime convention.
I am pretty open about my hobbies. Most people IRL knows about my otaku inclinations. I don't really have high power levels though, being slow to this process: I don't own any figmas, dakimakuras or even an anime poster.
There! That's my whole otaku bio.
That's more in line with the western perception of what an otaku, ie just someone who is into anime. You are far from being what I would label as an otaku. You're still a fan of anime currently. If you watch anime constantly, I'd be a bit more inclined to label you as an otaku, but unless you do, you'd be hard-pressed to be called an otaku.
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Since we seem to be doing "how I turned into an Otaku" stories, here's mine.
I took the fantasy/scifi inlet (anyone else here do this?). I didn't even first hear the word anime until I was at least 19.
Started out as a kid reading mostly fantasy/scifi authors like Philip Pullman (best over all), Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link (the greatest story teller on Earth), Roger Zelazny, Orson Scott Card, Loyd Alexander, Brian Jacques, Gene Wolfe, etc... But was quickly disappointed how soon I ran out of high quality fantasy literature out there to accommodate my escapism needs. So much of it eventually became derivative and predictable.
I probably would have given up escapism eventually and become a normal human being, if not for college, when roommates introduced me to the infinite well-spring of animated scifi/fantasy stories called anime.
Or at least, it seemed to be infinite at the time :\ (5 years ago for me)
Never really liked the eternally 16 year-old main characters, or school settings, but it's better than cop shows and dramas on American TV. And it's definitely more creatively fulfilling.
What keeps me coming back to Japanese media over Western media, is the perception that anime/manga aren't afraid to tackle "disturbing" themes positively. As in, you don't automatically expect a character in an Anime who's shown an interest in lolicon to be portrayed as a sick completely immoral bastard. But on something like CSI? Yeah. There are probably even American laws (more realistically, morays) ensuring writers can't depict deviants of any nature as otherwise generally nice human beings.
Don't know if that fits into the Otaku archetype, but there's my concept of what being an Otaku means: To prefer Japanese themes over Western themes in our escapist media.
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LunarSD said:
There are probably even American laws (more realistically, morays) ensuring writers can't depict deviants of any nature as otherwise generally nice human beings.I believe there is or was a law in the US stating this had to happen in comic books.
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