OK we here at 4-ch need to start a movement to rescue the word wotaku. there are far tommany people using it. we need to create some way to findout if the person is a true fan or a poser. I dont use the word myself but I think It should be a pride word. the problem Is there are many small fans who try to assosiate with us when there is no reasont to. It makes finding other hardcore anime fans difficult.

here is what I propose

1.you have been teased and socially ridiculed either now or in the past.

2. aprox 80% of your money goes to anime manga or video game related things (exeptions are possible)

3. you accept that anime porn is more interesting to you than real porn

4.if you create a list of things you think about anime/manga/jp games are at the top of the list

5. you spend most of your time in your room, on your computer or at a friends house with similar interests

I would NEVER call myself an otaku....I I just like Anime!
looks at list

1. yes
2. 70% goes to games manga and anime the other 20% goes to computers so I can D/L doujinshi, watch anime and keep them in my Hard drive, 10% goes to food and living so I can continue the above.
3. Yes, a big YES.
4. yes
5. yes, except for the friends, I don't understand the meaning of the word

Oh....crap

やあやあ元気?

One day, >>1 will grow up, and be horribly embarrassed when he finds this thread.

i promise not to flame yet.

yes i call myself an otaku and I guess you should rescue the word from em cuz I am a real asshole

my answers

1 - NO, I am a bully

2 -yes

3- i dunno. I like real porn for masturbating, and hentai just for laughs

4 -yes

5 - yes

shit. dun say I'm like you tho, I'll be PISSED OFF

I've only called myself otaku as self-depreciating and exaggerating humor. I'd be really embarrassed if someone actually thought I am otaku.

I think I'm getting worse, though. >_<

i call myself an otaku, but I agree... i'd fucking die if someone called me that. -__-

1. Well, never been bullied, but been in embarrassing situations where I was singled out due to shyness.
2. For my case you can say that 80% of my internet bandwidth goes to anime. I'm poor :/ and manga is the only thing I buy aside food and necessities.
3. yup, more interested.
4. yes
5. I have spent most of LIFE behind my computer.

I Certainly don't call myself an otaku and would not be happy to be called one. "Wapanese" would piss me off, and if in RL someone calls me weeaboo, i'll chop his/her head off. (yes, with no gender discrimination!)

There are also different branches of otaku which is sometimes important,
Those that I can call from top of head are:
Anime, manga, model freaks, doll collectors, Cosplayers, Datesim/Hgame, doujinshi, Dorama (rare) and fan artists

Christ, people. Are you seriously responding to some hopeless teenager's thread about how special he is?

>>9 Unfortunately for me, though, I've been called Wapanese and weeaboo many, many times. I probably am one...I certainly don't seem to be very normal. I'm not really one for cutting heads, though.

10<< FUCK YOU

did I ever say that I apply?

>>13
nope

i'm kinda an otaku cos i love anime and i'm really shy plus i use to get bullies at school, but i'm getting better so i dont think i'm THAT otaku lol

I convey a condolence about a case of this university heartily from Japan

>>16 thanks

>>5 one day we'll all grow up and be horribly embarrassed.
fixed

>>18 yea... being part of a stereotype usually is something you don't want others to know when you are matured.
I don't want to be labeled.

>>18

Some of us grew up a long time ago. This is the grown-up internet.

>>20

That's pretty funny considering DQN is only three links above this one. The internet is NOT serious business.

>>17
Is it your site?
I look for pleasure

>>21

DQN is nearly much the most mature board on the site, and I don't mean that as any kind of put-down. If you don't see that, you haven't read DQN properly.

>>22 thanks.. tho i know I'm not doing much to rescue the word Otaku tho I feel ashamed but at the same time someone needs to tell it like it is.

I got my inspiration from
http://masamania.com

>>23 DQN IS Serious business

lol

to partially quote Sasahara from Genshiken
"I started watching one episode, then I started watching more...before I know it everyone was calling me otaku..."

how many of you came this realization? and when?

yes let's take it back. like how i'm taking back the word "porchmonkey"

Honestly I had never heard the word "porchmonkey" before that movie. It could have been any random two words stuck together.

This all makes you wonder when Weird Al's going to do a song that makes fun of the Otaku subculture/cult

MANGA 2007 EXPOMANGA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtW2jqsrTUc&mode=related&search=

Honestly, I have no friends that like the same stuff as I do. Well, no good friends that I can talk to regularly in person. Yes, I have been made fun of for reading the stuff, but honestly, I'm having fun, who are they to judge what is "Fun" and what is not?

>>28
Definately. I was like, "Oh! Fullmetal Alchemist is starting. Hmmm, well, I'll just see what it's about."
I watched, got addicted, and bought the series, realized Borders was my best friend and proceeded to obsess over various manga I found there, realized that the internet was my REAL best friend and then ended up here =P

And I swear, if I hear ONE (Now you're all going to do it) more person say "I really liked that may-nga a lot!" I may punch them.

>>33 I don't know about you but I like mango.....

I don't necessarily agree that taking the word back would be a good solution or even possible for that matter. Bringing the culture into the mainstream destroyed alot of what it means to be an otaku. I mean, did any of you older than 16 believe way back when that good(well sorta)anime would be shown on tv every night and that everyday weekend children's shows would be flooded with it also. To a point the culture here has changed drastically and dedicated otaku should just sit back and be happy that they don't have to search so hard to find a certain series here or a figure there and so on.

>>34
I demand you pronounce it Mahn-Go =D

Not even fruits are safe from the uprising!

erm.

...It was weird today, one of my semi-friends (I don't hang out with him often, but I'll talk to him if he's there) asked about Fullmetal Alchemist (He'll watch anime, but he's more into american comics and stuffs).
...I proceeded to tell him that I had bawled my eyes out at the movie at AX 06, and my other friend was like O_O;;, because she's never seen me cry before (Okay, maybe once), much less in public, and she's my best friend that I've known for forever.
I'm horrifically unemotional IRL. =D

>>35 some people like to feel special and by making anime readily available to everyone they no longer feel special.

>>34 I don't know about you but I like manko.....

It's truth. I'm otaku person.

1.People tease me in my music, magazines, and video taste.

2.At least 90% of my check goes to upgrading my PC, and to buying CDs.

3....It's unfortunate, but yes.

4.Yes

5.Yes!

How about you just call yourself a geek?
Wotaku won't work because not all non Japanese are white.

>>40

That's not what "wotaku" means.

i love to call myself an "otaku"
>>1 is right..some people don't really get it!
but in germany otaku doesnt have a bad name... I'm from germany, i got many otaku friends!

In America, the word "Otaku" sometimes carries a bad reputation, but people around my area are just "OMGOMGOMG A JAPANEEESE WORD!! I MUST USE IT WITH NO REGARD TO THE MEANING!!"

>_>;;

"Nakagawa Shouko explained during an October 4, 2006 appearance on the TBS network's educational program "Kojin Jugyou" that "otaku" spelled in hiragana represented the first generation of Japan's obsessive-compulsive fans who adopted the term in the 1980s. "Otaku" spelled in katakana then represents the second generation of Japanese obsessive fans from the 1990s. And "wotaku" identifies the current third generation of otaku from the 2000s."

>>44
Shoko wrote in katakana "WO-TA-KU"
lemme find the videos... .... ... ... ...

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Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/shoko%2Bnakagawa/video/x1v5ms_otakuology-with-nakagawa-shoko-part

Part 2:
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/shoko%2Bnakagawa/video/x1v8o4_otakuology-with-nakagawa-shoko-part/1

Personally I'd rather call myself weeaboo, but I partly blame 4chan for that, making me use that word and turing me into one.
Also Otaku just makes me think of 14 year olds with Naruto headbands using Japanese words like sugar on their chocolate frosted breakfast.

>>46
Isn't that what fucking "weeaboo" is?
you've got it backwards

>>47
i agree. >>46 got it backwards, lool

Sugar is a japanese word now.

>>49
say what

46 here
>>47
Most of the people that call themselves otaku are the 14 year olds or the 40 year old fatties. I call myself weeaboo because it's a better word.
It's like a gay guy calling himself a fag instead of homosexual.

This whole thing is just as pointless as arguing about the proper definition of "anime." It doesn't matter what you call yourself. It doesn't matter if you call yourself anything at all. It's more important that you actually enjoy the hobby, instead of joining meaningless cliques and arguing about who's cooler like most of the other status-obessed superficial social animals of the world. We're all nerds with a nerdy hobby, and most of us are wasting time overcompensating by making fun of the nerdier ones -- a distinction totally lost on normal people, who see us all as basically the same. Nobody's impressed. Nobody even cares. We're all worrying about our own shit.

Use of the word weeaboo is intentionally self-deprecating, which is the point, I think.

white people already distorted the word otaku. In Japan otaku=anti-social misfits too embarassed face the world. Over there it's just pasty nerds who watches anime. No one gets insulted here when you use this world. In Japan people will kill themselve over it.

>>54
That's changed, your information is out of date. They changed the spelling and people are proud to label themselves as it, and the 'real' ones get pissed off at the otaku 'posers'. Education yourself with the videos kindly linked by >>45

Otaku are the only thing keeping the Japanese economy going.

Does playing Touhou 15 hours straight trying to beat it on lunatic count as being an otaku?

>>57
No, that means you're a casual gamer.

>>57
gemu-wota

>>60
Go to hell

IT MEANS ONE'S HONORABLE HOUSE

i'm a gunji-wota by the way, hear me roar

>>55

>They changed the spelling

O lawd, is dat sum ヲタク?

Otaku, weeaboo call your self what ever you want too, it doesn't change the fact that were nerds. It also doesn't change the fact that nobody (other than other otakus) will ever call us otakus.

Weeaboo pride!
Weeaboo power!

My house is not honourable. Does that make me a taku? No tako comments please.

They also changed the spelling of Evangelion for the movies. It used to be EBANGERION. Now it's WEBANGERIWON.

I think the modern Japanese just like using antiquated katakana.

Anyway, I got into this stuff in the 90's, but I'm only 19... I grew up using the word "otaku", so I'll stick with "otaku".