You Too Can Be Otaku
09/30/2005 @ 3:00 am
The word otaku doesn’t have quite the same meaning among anime fans in America as it does in Japan, though even in Japan, with the success of shows like Densha Otoko, anti-otaku sentiment is changing.
Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo shows Westerners where to go and what to buy in Tokyo in order to fulfill the dream of being a real otaku.
With this book, you too can be a geek, Japanese style.
Thanks for posting this, lifted my day.
Believe it or not, cool otaku do exist – I’m living proof!
Thanks for the heads up Marie, sounds like something worth checking.
September 30th, 2005 at 9:54 amMarie, cool post. Thanks for heads up.
September 30th, 2005 at 11:54 amOne thing of note: Westerners should be capitalized in print, we don’t write asians or christians or the orient. It’s Asians, Christians, the Orient. White people and black people are lowercased, yes, and geeks never capitalized. Right on that one. But please change “westerners” to Westerners. You ”Westerners” often make this mistake.
And shouldn’t that be ”oitaku”?
September 30th, 2005 at 11:54 amIt’s definitely “otaku” and not “oitaku.” I suppose I can put “Westerners” in caps! I’m always forgetting if “South” should be capitalized or if “Winter” should be. Usually I guess incorrectly, I guess! And yes, there definitely are cool otaku.
September 30th, 2005 at 2:09 pm…and the title of the book says “Neo Tokyo”, not just Tokyo.
October 2nd, 2005 at 7:19 pm“cool otaku” is an oxymoron.:twisted:
October 5th, 2005 at 9:39 amDensha is just a hoax story, it’s impossible a Right lady will marry an otaku. It’s just a hoax story. It’s a LEGEND that supposed to fullfil all otakuS out there. Believe it, otaku are sucks until the end of the world. People out there. Don’t let your son being otaku or married with otaku. It’s just a pain in the ass. Akiba-chan SUCKSs, the female otaku only deserve to be a slut in porno movie. and a male one…deserve to be killed.
October 13th, 2005 at 7:56 amWell I never!!
October 13th, 2005 at 10:13 amHow rude.. Not entirely inaccurate but rude nontheless ^_^
March 29th, 2006 at 8:18 pm