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Old 2012-10-10, 16:07   Link #17
erneiz_hyde
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I've always thought that in Japan, a lot of them overlap each other. If the manga Genshiken had even some value of truth in it, then Mecha and Moe might've overlap much more than one might've thought. Steins:Gate even had Daru who's kinda like this. I'm more interested in why there is a view of distinct genre otakus.

My guess is that otaku in Japan doesn't really care that much about genre distinction and is actually able to enjoy stuffs from opposite ends of the spectrum evenly. They aren't "stupid" enough to not be able to enjoy the more "intellectual" things, but are also not "proud" enough to consider moe some "stupid shit".
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