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| Radish 800th Post
 
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|  "Re(4):spam: internet guide for otaku boys"
, posted Sat 25 Jan 10:47:
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What's otaku mean?
*sweatdrop*
It's basically the japanese term for an anime/manga geek, I think.
From what I hear, it's a slang derivative from house (honorific o-taku): i.e. someone who is so obsessed over something that he or she never leave his or her house. I could be wrong there, but it's an explanation I've heard on several occasions.
It doesn't have to be anime related. It can be pretty much anything, like models, videogames, Dungeons and Dragons, vampires, etc.
Apparently it’s incredibly derogatory, so I could never figure out why people who call themselves one willfully.
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| Satoshi_Miwa 1857th Post
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| "Re(5):spam: internet guide for otaku boys" , posted Sat 25 Jan 12:53
quote:
What's otaku mean?
*sweatdrop*
It's basically the japanese term for an anime/manga geek, I think.
From what I hear, it's a slang derivative from house (honorific o-taku): i.e. someone who is so obsessed over something that he or she never leave his or her house. I could be wrong there, but it's an explanation I've heard on several occasions.
It doesn't have to be anime related. It can be pretty much anything, like models, videogames, Dungeons and Dragons, vampires, etc.
Apparently it’s incredibly derogatory, so I could never figure out why people who call themselves one willfully.
It became popularized as a title thanks to Gainax's wonderfully silly (and very accurate) anime/fake-documentary Otaku no Video. And the NA anime fans sorta of lept on it from there, not really knowing about the negative side effects of the word.
That's why we tend to use it a heck of a lot more openly then people in Japan would...
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| Mosquiton 653th Post
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| "Re(5):spam: internet guide for otaku boys" , posted Sat 25 Jan 13:59
quote:
What's otaku mean?
*sweatdrop*
It's basically the japanese term for an anime/manga geek, I think.
From what I hear, it's a slang derivative from house (honorific o-taku): i.e. someone who is so obsessed over something that he or she never leave his or her house. I could be wrong there, but it's an explanation I've heard on several occasions.
It doesn't have to be anime related. It can be pretty much anything, like models, videogames, Dungeons and Dragons, vampires, etc.
Apparently it’s incredibly derogatory, so I could never figure out why people who call themselves one willfully.
I think that's about right. As for why people would call themselves one, well, we're not in Japan and the connotation is different here.
I don't think it's always a completely totally negative term, but not something normal Japanese people would aspire to be... something like Trekkies I guess, although their negative association comes from being SO INCREDIBLY DORKY!
Anyway, words take on new connotations all the time. There's definitely no international standard. Japanese people have found plenty of interesting connotations for English words, after all.
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