Otakuness?

Hobo2323 · Post by **Hobo2323** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:36 pm

Just wondering, when is someone an otaku I mean is there an exact piont in time (experiance)?
Just wondering.

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:40 pm

When you become a house.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:46 pm

I offer you the joys of urban dictionary. Though you realize Otaku isn't really a 'good' label in Japan...it's actually more of an insult.

otaku

Otaku is the honorific word of Taku (home).

Otaku is extremely negative in meaning as it is used to refer to someone who stays at home all the time and doesn't have a life (no social life, no love life, etc)

Usually an otaku person has nothing better to do with their life so they pass the time by watching anime, playing videogames, surfing the internet (otaku is also used to refer to a nerd/hacker/programmer).

In the Western culture, people confuse otaku to be something positive like "Guru". If you think about it, it's not really good to be called a guru if it means you are a total loser who can't socialize with other people except through the Internet.

Other Japanese words which have been confused by Westerners also include but not limited to: Anime, Manga, etc

otaku no jinsei ha yabai na! (it sucks to live the life of an otaku!)

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:02 am

When Japanese girls can look at you and the fallowing conversation happens:

‹Which one do you think is the Otaku?› Minako asked Sakamae, in a quiet voice.

‹Eh, otaku?› Rina tilted her head, never having heard the term applied to Americans.

‹You know, the otaku, there's always one, who thinks all we do is watch animation and eat ramen while learning about giant robots.› Answered Minako.

‹Probably that one.› Sakamae point down to the group. ‹The twitchy one, in the ‘Rei Ayanami’ t-shirt.›

‹Should we tell him that Sailor Moon doesn’t live here?› Suggested Minako with a wicked, sarcastic grin.

‹And ruin his hopes and dreams? Minako, deary, could we be so cruel?›

Hobo2323 · Post by **Hobo2323** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:06 am

*clicks sto[watch* Fast...too fast.

It is good (or scary?) to know that people are logged on..still.

BTW: it is 9:05 in WA.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:19 am

Moonlight Soldier wrote:
Otaku is extremely negative in meaning as it is used to refer to someone who stays at home all the time and doesn't have a life (no social life, no love life, etc)

Usually an otaku person has nothing better to do with their life so they pass the time by watching anime, playing videogames, surfing the internet (otaku is also used to refer to a nerd/hacker/programmer).

-_- i'm an otaku

Pwolf

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:56 am

You are an otaku when your life revolves around anime. When the most important thing in your life is anime. When you find yourself immersed in anime related activities (like making amvs) and prefer it to doing something like being social. When you think about anime in some form or another all throughout the day. When it has gotten to the point that it is a disease. And yet you love the disease, and hope to never be cured.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:09 am

IMHO, this thread should be entitled "Otakudom?".

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:21 am

Scintilla wrote:IMHO, this thread should be entitled "Otakudom?".

But then we'd need an "Otakusub" thread.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:24 am

Geez Doki, how many people do you think are ACTUALLY going to get that reference?