[ SECRET POST #1870 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1870 ⌋


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt they're actually born and grown up in Japan and/or maybe the word's changed meaning a bit now b/c of the distance of time. Fanboy w/it's unwashed, obsessed, incredibly social awkward original meaning is pretty much the Western counterpart of otaku, which means someone so-obessed w/something that they don't bathe, rarely go out, hentai-lovers, and are socially damaged. It may now have more of geek meaning. I've been in and around anime culture since the 1990s and this is how I learned the meaning of otaku: Japanese fans couldn't believe Westerners were using this negative-loaded word to mean, well, knowledgeable about nerdy/geeky subjects. They were repulsed by this.

From wiki (mainly 'cause I'm lazy): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku

In Japan there has been some negativity towards otaku and otaku culture. Tsutomu Miyazaki became known as "The Otaku Murderer" in 1989. His bizarre murders fueled a moral panic against otaku.

In 2004, Kaoru Kobayashi kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered a seven-year-old first-grade student. Japanese journalist Akihiro Ōtani suspected that Kobayashi's crime was committed by a member of the figure moe zoku even before his arrest.[10]

Although Kobayashi was not an otaku, the degree of social hostility against otaku seemed to increase for a while, as suggested by increased targeting of otaku by law enforcement as possible suspects for sex crimes, and by calls from persons in local governments for stricter laws controlling the depiction of eroticism in materials which cater to some otaku (e.g. erotic manga and erotic videogames).[11] Nobuto Hosaka criticised a lot of the hype.[11]

[blackjackrocket.livejournal.com]

I'm not the anon but yes, we know those things. I remember in the 1980s when "geeks" were considered a danger to society because of the stigma on people who played Dungeons and Dragons. People who called themselves geeks were thought of with suspicion because of it. They were thought of as drugged cultists. And the negativity towards "otaku" seems very similar.

[relmneiko.livejournal.com]

...some Japanese young people still call themselves otaku. I've met them. They were born and raised in Japan and never left it. It's used much in a similar way to "nerd" in English. It can be an insult or you can take a sort of self-deprecating pride in it.