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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:04 pm

Calling all otakus world wide!
I am here to promote the second annual international otaku day, a holiday for the otaku in you.
We ask that you join us in the event on the offical facebook page
This day will simply be dedicated to anime, manga, video games or however you choose to spend it.
Please help us spread the word about this epic event and invite your friends.
This event would be best enjoyed with friends who would appreciate it as well.
Thanks for taking the time for reading this post.

take care and have a great day!

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:13 pm

An otaku is a person who is so obsessed with something that it dominates his life to an extreme degree. In Japan, being otaku gets you hatred unless that obsession can be used in a productive way. For that reason, no Japanese person would openly call himself or herself that.

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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:49 pm

Well considering I'm a staff volunteer for a springtime Anime convention and going on my third year it seems that I've got some sort of otaku celebration to do each month at least. But I will definitely try to be ready for that come next year!

Rei- American's negativity towards the term Nerd, Trekkie, or Fanboy/girl, Groupie, etc. is just as equally the size as the negativity in Japan for otaku. So do not go saying that no Japanese person will not openly claim to be an otaku because that would be like saying that no American would openly claim to being a Klingon when we see otherwise on the streets and growing every year. If the former Prime Minister of Japan: Taro Aso has openly claimed that he is an otaku, then I am quite sure that there are a few native born and god knows how many American-Japanese people that are open otakus out there. Yes there is haters out there for that kind of culture, but what kind of hate ISN'T there for ANY culture?! So please do not bring down this promotional thread with this. Take it elsewhere.

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:36 pm

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Well considering I'm a staff volunteer for a springtime Anime convention and going on my third year it seems that I've got some sort of otaku celebration to do each month at least. But I will definitely try to be ready for that come next year!

Rei- American's negativity towards the term Nerd, Trekkie, or Fanboy/girl, Groupie, etc. is just as equally the size as the negativity in Japan for otaku. So do not go saying that no Japanese person will not openly claim to be an otaku because that would be like saying that no American would openly claim to being a Klingon when we see otherwise on the streets and growing every year. If the former Prime Minister of Japan: Taro Aso has openly claimed that he is an otaku, then I am quite sure that there are a few native born and god knows how many American-Japanese people that are open otakus out there. Yes there is haters out there for that kind of culture, but what kind of hate ISN'T there for ANY culture?! So please do not bring down this promotional thread with this. Take it elsewhere.

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I just... when people call themselves otaku I usually think... "If only they really knew what they called themselves" and feel compelled to tell them what the word means in Japan and how being otaku and unproductive gets you treated like an outcast there. Didn't really mean to bring down the thread with that information though.

In Japanese, though, otaku refers to being unproductively obsessed with anything... even trains or astronomy. But I don't want to view the word differently than how Japan does so I also consider it a very negative word.

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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:32 am

Liada is right about it more so being the equivalent of someone calling themselves a "trekkie" or something like that. Sure, people think someone like that is a loser, but it's not something we're not already familiar with in various American terms {like nerd and geek}.

Also, every time I see you crash in and try to define what otaku really means, it often sounds like you're actually thinking of hikikomori. Hikikomori are sometimes otakus, but being an otaku doesn't make you a hikikomori. Hikikomori are the ones that actually cannot function.

Otakus go out, get jobs, have friends... everything that would be considered "normal". They might talk all the time about their obsession and that might turn people who don't care about what they're into away and thus have less friends because of it, but they can still function. Hikikomori stay locked up in their homes and do all that they can to ensure they don't have to leave for anything.

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:00 am

*gasps and grips to her chest like she's gonna have heart failure* Omg! TES said I was RIGHT about something I said!?!? User Image

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If that's how you feel Rei then by all means don't let me stop you from feeling that. But when I read that first post of yours it basically tells me "How dare you bring this filth here, being an otaku is bad." which is like telling a gay man not to be gay or to tell a dancer that they should go chop off their feet that they had the audacity to wanting to pursue that.

As TES said. I know tons of otakus who have actual jobs, have groups of friends and actually GET OUT and ABOUT in the world. Being an otaku is a badge of pride or honor for some people, because it helps bring it out in people and some great personalities that I have had the privilege of getting to know in person when they find out, "Hey this person likes this stuff too. I have a comrade or a mutual peer." And its also because of this that we end up with some of the best voice actors or producers or writers etc BECAUSE ITS STARTS WITH THE FANDOM.

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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:05 pm

Hmm... I only saw myself as telling someone what otaku really means and how the word is perceived in Japan. And the words otaku and hikkikomori do cross over, taking on aspects of each other, a lot.

But my apologies. I didn't mean to wreck the thread. sad

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