i have a lot of manga, like +300 plus that i have been collecting since i was a little kid. and i am not saying that being an otaku is good or bad, but do you guys think that i would be cosidered to be an otaku? i mean, i know i have a lot of manga, but most of the reason that i have so much is just the sense of collecting them. of course, it's not like i hate them or what not, i do enjoy reading them. but i am just not obsessed with them as the average "manga otaku" would be considred to be. what do you guys think?
How many figurines do you have? Have you ever kissed a girl?
It does not matter how many one has. If you have the money you can go buy 1000 Gashapon Figures and all i'd say is that he is a lamer.
Being an Otaku is more like being into it. You have to feel something when finding Manga or character related goods like figures. Also, as Otaku is more of a "bad word", you should not have too much real life, non-otaku friends etc. to qualify as one.
No, i don't have any figurines. and yeah, i had kissed a girl before.
!? You're not obsessed with manga and u dare call urself an otaku 0.0;
I would say you have addiction, but you have ways to go to be burn-out otaku.
I am the original poster. What does it mean to be a burn-out otaku?
>>8
To fuck up your life because of your obsession, I guess.
I am fucked up...i spend half my days looking at porn at hentai then i spend the other half playing games or reading comics on the computer...ive got an incest fetish...i lie..i steal...i've never gone out with a girl before..i've never kissed..i am an ugly mother fucker....my life is a wreck and i think its time to end it....
>>10
bye
>>10
Come japan!
There are many many your friends.
is he dead or just half way there? -xp=
i don't know if i'm an otaku, but by the description above,
i'm hell far away from being one.
i think thats not the reason, an otaku is higher than just a manganime fan. he/she will think of theire fav. manganime all the time even fantasizing about his life as of the manganime.
anyway, if he's dead, my deepest condolance.
if he's alive, hey live up man, ther's always tomorrow to live.
live every day to the fullest & live for tomorrow's sake.
(got that from haruko ueki, ueki's mom)
if you survive a battle, your opponent isn't merciful it's just you are better to live than die there. just remember to return the favor to him/her for letting you live.
( got that from kenpachi of zarashi of bleach)
>>7
I don't know how you could call it an addiction just for having over 300 manga collected over a long period. Nobody calls somebody addicted for having hundreds of books in their personal library. Dork maybe, but not addicted.
damn, i am not even close to a wanna-be-otaku. time to collect more art books. !!!!!!!!!
why is it everytime i look at this damned board someone is asking whether or no they are an Otaku?
and by the way... why can judge as to whether or no you are an Otaku? the person thats says you aren't are prolly jealous. and the person who says you are prolly are not as far as you are in the scheme of things.
so i say F it. does it matter whether or no you are or not/ just enjoy the shit and keep living unlike that dead dumbass number >>10
My own collection is growing at around 3-4 GN per week so I can't imagine 300+ taking very long to amass (two years at the current rate.) You say you've been doing this since you were a kid? Time to start working a bit harder. ;-)
your not obsessed with manga? then your not a hard core otaku yet, maybe a wanna-be-otaku. I've got over 5,000 books and I started since I was in the 4th grade. It doesn't take a year to get past 300+ books if your that dedicated.
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The possibility that U.S.A. falls into danger rises
how does North Korea tie in with this thread about some person wanting to know if the're an otaku? put this in the News section why don't you.
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HERE IS THE "OTAKU" TEST
1.do people often see you as a nerd?
2.have you never had a relationship?
if this is true you likely are a "otaku" . but I hate that word cuz im sick of people using it ats a social group. also when girls use it even tho it refers to men. I did call myself otaku when I discovered there was an anime fanbase outside my room. but I never use it now because the word has become fake
what the hell? um... i hate to burst your bubble not not all nerds are otaku's. they are just dumb ass nerds. and then there are nerds who become Otaku's because it makes them fit in somewhere.
and then there are people who have never had a relationship just because they are stupid fucks.
so non- none of those make any damned sense.
Otaku test is:
What thing are you obsessed with?
then that thing is the thing you are an otaku of. you know i'm gonna write a fucking post about this in my blog cuz i get sick of this shit.
here is a definition from various sources for you. believe it if you like or whatever then. and yeah i am an american otaku and I got two strikes... the third is that i cuss alot so i guess I'm fucked.
The word otaku is derived from the word house or family (宅, taku) the O is added being that it is honorific (as in Osake, or Osushi). The O is also honorific when referring to persons such as Ojisan (uncle)Obasan (mother).
In Japan, Otaku used to have a very negative meaning as it is referred to someone who stayed at home all the time and didn't have a life (no social life, no love life, etc). It was further stigmatized by the murderer and rapist Tsutomu Miyazaki, who turned out to be a loner obsessed with pornographic anime and manga (hentai which means deviant or pervert) and lived out his rape fantasies on young girls in the streets of Japan. The current form written in hiragana (おたく) or katakana (オタク), appeared in the 1980s; it appears to have been coined by the humorist and essayist Akio Nakamori (中森明夫, Nakamori Akio) in the 1983 series "An Investigation of Otaku" (おたくの研究, otaku no kenkyū), who observed that this form of address was unusually common among geeks and nerds. It entered general use in Japan around 1989.
in modern Japanese slang, an otaku refers to an extremely obsessive fan of soemthing. The most common use for the word refers to anime otaku (a fan of Japanese animation) and manga otaku (a fan of Japanese graphic novels). In Japan there are many other types of Otaku, such as pāsokon otaku (personal computer geeks), gēmu otaku (playing video games), and otaku that are extreme fans of idols, heavily promoted singing girls. Sometimes the term would be used for some hobbies of mechanical or technological area such as tetsudō otaku (metrophiles) or gunji otaku (military geeks), as well. The word Otaku can be applied to any hobby that someone has a detailed knowledge or obsession about. The word maniakku or mania (from English "maniac") is sometimes used to indicate someone whose interest is strong, but not obsessive or unhealthy: anime maniakku, gēmu mania, etcetra
Amongst Japan's otaku themselves, some, but not all, use the term to describe themselves and their friends in humor, accepting their position as obsessive fans (as some african americans in america call themselves ghetto, and some whites calls themselves rednecks, movies like "revenge of the nerds" that made nerd-dom a badge to be worn with pride) and some in Japan even use the term proudly, attempting to reclaim it from its negative connotations. In general colloquial usage however, most Japanese consider it undesirable to be described as an "otaku".
In the western part of the world the word "Otaku" has gained much notoriety. The word is a loanword from the Japanese language, but in the English/international sense it is used to refer specifically to a fan of anime and manga, though it could refer to any "geek," in general. The term serves as a label not unlike many american terms (b-boy, gamer, skater, jock, RPer, punk, stoner, geek, bookworms, etc.) However, use of the label can be a source of contention among older anime fans. As in Japan, unpleasant stereotypes about otaku prevail in worldwide fan communities, and some anime fans express concern about the reputations these more extreme fans (or not so extreme but yet they use the word as if they are causing yet another division in the word Otaku). Some Japanese call those outside of Japan that are obsessed with Japanese culture and Anime "Wapanese" (much like the american terms wigger, wannabe, poser etc.)
To indicate that one is talking about the Japanese definition rather than the English loanword, the spelling wotaku (ヲタク) is sometimes used. On Japanese forums such as www.2ch.net and [url] www.irc.2ch.net [/url], otaku (オタク) and wotaku (ヲタク) are used interchangeably, depending on the mood and personal style of the poster.
Otaku is increasingly being used outside of Japan to refer to an individual who is obsessed with technology, a pre-occupation stereotypically assigned to Japanese teens in the early 1980s.
SO WE ARE BEHIND THE CURVE YA'LL
You can be an otaku with almost anything, right? Not just anime/manga/games. It's just a stronger passion for a certain interest than the general fan. A groupie of a band could be considered an otaku. Soap opera junkies could be otaku.
yep tis true tis true. but here peoples don't tend to say 'oh yeah, i'm a food-otaku'
>23
>> you know i'm gonna write a fucking post about this in my blog cuz i get sick of this shit.
Oh shit son, the gloves are coming off!
>>26
True, that's more like a mania... foodmania.
can you be an otaku over a nation, then? I completely obsess over Russia.
Yes, I think you are an otaku. 300+ manga is a lot. :3
hmm... I think that's normal As long as you don't to obsessed.
If you just saw a Manga otaku from his collection, how about my friends whose have a library of manga, which also had 7 or maybe 8 160GB of HDD full of manga, doujen, and something like that ^^.
Count yourself as an otaku when you think that "manga is everything, nothing can stop my passion to read and keep collecting manga"
you're pretty much a "manga wota", yup
My collection just hit 200. At the present point in time my problem is that I obsessively buy each series in order. So I have to wait until the next volume is in stock, and then the volume after that sells out.
Thank goodness Death Note is finally over.
Mail is over too though, and I thought that had heaps more mileage even considering how cheesy it was. :-(
Being an Otaku or a Maniakku nowadays, for the most part, isn't necessarily as big of a thing as it used to be. It's really just liking something a lot, or pursuing a specific thing with a bit more passion than you'd stereotype as average.
I think it's better to be an Otaku or Maniakku of sorts nowadays. It makes your future easier to decide for yourself if you plan on going into that field, (whether it be technology, comic, cartooning, writing, etc,...), and it also makes it easier to have conversations with people of the same interests and such.
I always understood that an otaku related more or less to a "useless" field. Such as manga, anime, ramen or trains, which don't really contribute much to one's life, unless you stretch it quite a bit.
I mean you could make a profession, but they're quite rare. Cooking, sciences and so on, I always thought didn't really count as otaku material, because they can easily be transformed into jobs and are usefull skills.
>>36
That's a very legitimate way of thinking on it, considering the amount of people that don't make it a profession, and the amount that the word "otaku" refers to the specific genre of anime, manga, etc,...
It is a rarity to see someone actually continue on in the that type of field, much more-so than in Japan. But the general thinking that it is a useless field would really refer to most forms of entertainment today. And I'm not comparing well written story lines to manga or anime that are written solely on the basis of the fantasy of the author. I'm comparing a well written novel to something like Death Note and such. Something that holds meaning beyond it's story.
Unfortunately though, the majority of the use of the otaku do follow it in a more or less useless way.
I don't believe you are an otaku, because an otaku is literally defined as someone who is so obsessed with manga and anime that they lose hygiene and sleep, and even skip out on eating.
>>38 I thought an otaku was literaly defined as a nerd. Actually, wasn't the word otaku an archaic reference to a prestigious family or something along the lines, and then therews some anime in which a nerdy character referred to eveyone as 'otaku' and it became synonymous with the word 'nerd'? I'm pretty sure that's what happened... So any nerd can be otaku, right? And over here in english speaking countries, otaku just means anime/manga nerd, generally. They don't have to lose hygeine or sleep, right?
>>39
yeah. It's defined more as a nerd or geek.
It's just really more of labeling a person that is a geek about anime/manga/game genres.
The label Otaku comes literally from the Japanese word otaku which means home. So it's really just someone that would prefer to stay home and enjoy the Otaku genres of entertainment to going out and socializing.
109 Manga, 300Gb of anime saved up, 52 PS2 games, modded PSP, DS with R4 and thousands of burned Japanese games for psone but I only basicly play the fighters, rpgs and Super Robot Taisen for those, unhealthy obsession for Touhou (can beat it on lunatic) and stepmania and IDX...Am I an Otaku?
>>41
Got me beat.
Let's see what I got..
81 Manga, 77 Manga(approx. and on my PC), 18 episodes of anime on my PC, 5 volumes Newtype USA, 26 DVDs Anime + Animatrix, Wii and 5 games, PS2 and 29 games, PSP and 8 games, DS (1 game and a couple GBA games), about 20 PS1 games.
I would say most of the people that've spoken thus far on this topic are. Nothing wrong with it. (^_^)b
Yes we should take pride in what we are...after all we are only doing what we enjoy.
Just over 200 manga (in paper), 2-3 manga on hard disk (what can I say, I don't like reading on a computer screen), about 20 anime box sets, around 1.5TB of anime burned to DVD, a lot of which is going to go onto my new hard disk array soon so that it can be more accessible.
GameCube games around 15, DS games around 20. Wii games around 4 but that's THEIR fault, not mine.
I don't play many PC games since there are rarely Linux or Mac ports.
But I only have 3 eroge which means I am not an otaku.
If you played kanon then you are an otaku...Kanon is the baptism of an otaku
No you're most likely otaku. the term otaku doesn't revolve around just that one thing.
I know, I was making a funny. One of those eroge is in fact Kanon so I probably do actually qualify anyway.
>>47
lol I gotcha.
As to Kanon 45's got a point lol
4 Manga, nothing else.
My compture is mah lyfe.
Let's see...
If you're obsessed with just one series (ie; Naruto and Inuyasha, and no, I'm very sure you're not this kind), no, you are a lameass poser and more of a Star Trek Obsessive.
If you think the world revolves around Anime and Manga, then you're a total helpless obsessive.
If you like Japan and it's culture (well, one part, not everything) in general, then you are a weeaboo (no offense).
If you think the world revolves around Japan, then you are a Weeaboo Extremist.
You, me, and approximately 90% of 4ch are choice 3, thus meaning we are choice 3; sane, healthy human beings also capable of human life.
The world does revolve around Japan, that's why almost all giant monster attacks land on Tokyo and not on New York.
If you cried more watching Kanon or Air than you did when the Twin Towers fell...
Did anyone cry when the twin towers fell, except for people directly affected by it due to people they know being in the building at the time? I only remember going "wow. That's shiny."
>>53
No tears here. I was more freaked out than emotional distressed over it, myself.
>> 54
yeah same here pretty much. more of a shock than distress.
i guess if you love what you read and your having fun doing what you love then why should you be labeled about it...I love alot of series and I have so much manga and anime related things and its the fact that I love all of it that makes me human.
It really depends on you. You just don't become an otaku. You wake up one morning, and are just like "I'm an otaku." Something like that.
when i wake up in the morning, im like "wow.. im an otaku, im a wierdo." but that doesnt bther me too much, but believe me, where i live, being an otaku is really hard. now lets talk about u. if u rly love manga and watch anime 12/7, your an otaku, im not saying its bad.
I agree, if you love what you like and all then i guess you can call yourself an otaku.
if you can't explain why you like YKK, you're an otaku
And if you can explain it, you're an even bigger otaku.
Don't get it,... I like YKK, and I'm not an otaku. Why should you be an otaku if you like YKK, but can't explain it? Communication problems?
do you even KNOW japanese?
オタク (n) (col) geek; nerd; enthusiast
...lemme guess, you get the deffinition from hand maid may with the creepy neighbor locked away in his room and who only came out for the "cute little girl" and tried to give her all that stuff...
i think the most refferable thing about this word in your profile that even came UP is kamakazie girls...in which case, do you dress lolita? ((yes, boys can dress lolita, EGL has boy's clothing too)) have you read the book, manga AND seen the movie, better yet do you own them all? can you name at least 10 lolita fashion designers?
and there are PLENTY of otaku at that age, i myself was one, but i however have been watching anime since age 4 with a japanese animated version of the little mermaid...i believe what your reffering to are called adult swim junkies, which come in all ages im sorry to say, they people who go around having only ever seen wha'ts been on adult swim stating "omfg im suuuuuuuuuuuch an anime fan! i never miss a showing of anything on adult swim so i've seen flcl about 40 times cause adult swim is so great!(not) and repeated the same fucking 6 episodes 40 billion times!!!
for someone who's so set on learning japanese you already have a very poor grasp or the language and suggest you work on learning more about the culture as well..."otaku" snorts right...
724
i agree with the adult swim stuff ......but..
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō?
I dont think you could be considered an otaku unless your totally obsessed with collectibles and such.
although that is a lot of manga XD
300 isn't much. My collection is up to 300 now.
>>1
In Japan, it is not much for the name of "Otaku".
Otaku have over 1000 comics.
Do you have any figure or charactor doll?
If you don't have, you are just 'Favorate'.
but if you have, you stand on the gate of "OTAKU".
I think Otaku is not bad person. prefer to they are relative good and pure person. And they also kind.
please search the word of "OTAKU" at youtube.
you will find Akihabara's Otaku Person. I guess they seems strange. but they are not bad guys.
But I never close to Otaku.(LOL)
I'm saved. Since I really don't like figures or character dolls, I will never buy one, and thus will never be an otaku.
Although I have on numerous occasions wondered if 1:1 silicone dolls will ever get good enough to have a realistic Nagato Yuki sitting in a chair in my house, I doubt the sentiment is enough and I would actually need to buy it to get there.
>>69
I think you just love the charactor of Yuki-Nagato as real human.(If her existence is real, ofcource.)
She is surely cute but if you find nice girlfriend, you will
forget.
Otaku is the person who cannot love real girls or even has girlfriend, the priority is nearly equal charactor and real girlfriend.
In now step, you are not Otaku I think.
Don't worry.
Yuki is cute and reliable and probably does what she's told (I imagine a load of eromanga has already gone there) but I like to talk with my girls and she wouldn't be very good at conversation.
If we were debating over which SuzuHaru character is most worthy as a girlfriend, it would be Sasaki. Certainly Haruhi would be right out, because I wouldn't be fond of the universe being remade every time I pissed her off somehow. That's where Sasaki is a safe bet -- she could remake the universe, but she doesn't have the wild tendency to actually go off and do it. Yet because she still has all the same powers, this allows her to save me when necessary, so she may turn out to be as useful as Yuki.
I definitely have a tendency toward year-long infatuation with 2D characters, but every time so far it's been cured by a real person. Although every one of those times, the real person has been unavailable, breaking me out of obsessions was useful in itself and thus I write them into my history.
Be warned-finding a girlfriend does not make you stop liking anime and manga.
My girlfriend and I both watch anime together a lot and will discuss and swap manga, though our interests vary. I like the comedy where she prefers more serious things.
The simple fact that you are sking if you are an otaku is a sign you arent.
For the most part otaku like to pretend they arent.
I win you fail.
And I didnt even have to go in depth I let ole >>63 do the talking for me.
Heres a clue. quit sucking adult swims coperate teet, download a bittorrent client, do some friggin research, hell go into an irc channel or five, Realise that the only reason you do this is to aleve some boredom that results from your utterly mediocre life and understand the only reason you focus so much on anime and not other aspects of life is because you wanna remain ignorant of whats going on in the news. Then You will be good.
You can still enjoy anime AND have a life ya collective fucktards.
And to think, I used to be such a nice guy.
Merry christmas
please don't say ,more than 1000 manga books, 'coz I have those stuff. and also I have few anime dolls. I don't wanna called myself an Otaku. BTW, I'm a girl, and already collecting manga since i was in 3rd grade .
I think You're an otaku or not will be judge by others not yours self.
so ....
>>74
ob: Contact details please.
Don't consider yourself an otaku.
In reality otaku is a negative connotation. Personally, just be you and dont worry about what others label you as. Frankly, if you want advice from me, then take it as this:
You can have more than one intrest.
Look at me, I love anime. Yet, I am also in the army, enjoy skateboarding and surfing and have an avid intrest in meteorology.
So dont worry about what to call yourself and whether or not you are an otaku. Besides, Anime Junkie sounds alot better. It's like heroin only without the withdrawls.
Ok horrible joke.
Anywho, Bunnymee, that is actually epic in amount. I couldnt say i have 1000 manga. its more...300 or so in many boxes back in my home, plus 800 dollars in anime dvds 100 gigs filled on a dedicated computer plus an anime review blog/site in the works.
You know you're bad when you have a line on episodes that are being released down to the very day of release and watch it at that time -guiltily raises his hand-
Anywho, I hope you can use this bit of advice >>1
>>74 you are win. simple as that =D
> It's like heroin only without the withdrawls.
I call bullshit on this claim, as I just had a week with no opportunity to watch anime, and I felt really sick until I sat down and watched an entire series of something which wasn't even very good, just to get the fix.
=_= i think my sister is a asain otaku.
i love mangas and anime and even lolita clothing...
But her on the other hand never goes away from her computer never had a boyfriend [becuase shes so picky and only wants a hot asain boyfriend =-=] we both kind a know a little japanese[more like just what the characters mean ^-^""] and she never goes out even though she has a lot of friends she is loves korean music to a extrem knows all the dances to them too and she has asian withdraws when she goes a few hours without reading a manga watching a anime or watching her asian soaps[dramas] im really worried about her.
i need to get her out of her asain world D:
Help? :[
>>78
I don't see why you feel the need to force her out of something that she seems to enjoy.
Hmmmm.... I see why you'd be worried. I gots a younger sibling who I'd be worried about too if that was the case.
In response for >>79, I would have to disagree. being in relationships with friends is a very important experience in a person's life... yada yada yada.... but you get my point. I would guess you've tried talking to her?
If not, do so. if something is bothering me about my sib. that's what I do, even if it's akward.
ha i love manga's and naime's for so long i started in 3ed grad but i only have 63 or 61 because i layed of for a while but now im so into it again!! X3 i just love the way they make me feel exicited and pumped!!!! i call my self a manga otaku to and pround of it and u should be to! :]
Freedom of speech 101
am i considered an otaku?
i don't collect any manga but i read online all the time because i can't afford the manga. i'm a neet and freeta atm. i don't let others know really i read manga cuz it's a bit embarrasing b/c i obsess over it. instead of doing what i should be doing i escape in the manga world. i don't watch anime tho except for bleach b/c i feel anime is too slow.
I'd... say you're otaku. You seem like a big fan of manga. :)
While I'm at it, just thought I'd contribute my 2 cents to the whole 'otaku' discussion: Contrary to most perceptions of the meaning of the word (negative nuance), otaku is just like, you're a really huge fan of something. There's different kinds of otaku too. I guess the difference is the degree of your obsession - the way I see it, there's what I think of as typical otaku (whether just a big fan or obsessed), and there's 'super-obsessed-take-it-too-far-annoying otaku'... Anyway, from my understanding, and from what I hear from my (jp) friends, being otaku isn't a bad thing - though then again, it depends on what others think otaku is. Some peeps do think of it as a bad thing. I don't think it's bad, though. I may not have thousands of manga etc, but I do have quite a lot and consider myself an otaku.