Are you an Otaku?

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Is anime one of your "hobbies"? Do you dream about animes, mangas and cosplay? Do you think that anime cafes should be in every town, in every city and mini versions in every home? Do you spend more than 2 hours a day on playing video games?

If your answer to the question above was mostly yes then your definitely an Otaku. But first, what is an Otaku?

"Otaku (おたく / オタク) (oh-tah-kooh) is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly animemanga, or video games."
In modern Japanese slang, the term otaku refers to a fan of any particular theme, topic, or hobby. Common uses are anime otaku (a fan of anime), cosplay otaku and manga otaku (a fan of Japanese comic books),pasokon otaku (personal computer geeks), gēmu otaku (playing video games), and wota (pronounced 'ota', previously referred to as "idol otaku") that are extreme fans of idols, heavily promoted singing girls. There are also tetsudō otaku or denshamania (railfans) or gunji otaku (military geeks).
While these are the most common uses, the word can be applied to anything (music otaku, martial arts otaku, cooking otaku, etc).

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