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Old 2009-06-09, 16:15   Link #1136
noraemon
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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Because a topic of otaku seems to be talked about, I write recognition about otaku in Japan.
otaku is words to show the person who devotes itself to the hobby that a social cognitive degree is not high.
There are two kinds in otaku.
(1) "The expendability otaku" who spends income and the most of the off time for a hobby
(2) The "psychology-related otaku" "creative otaku" who wants to spread one's hobby around

Otaku is the words that have been used from 1980's in Japan. It was used for the single Japanese man who had a hobby (an anime and comics, an idol, a TV game, a computer) recognized for a hobby and the world of the child at that time.
However, in late years, as for the words called the otaku, coverage spreads out. It is not words only as for pointing with the person who regards an anime and comics as a hobby.
It is used by a person with a scientific hobby and a person with various hobbies.
The otaku becomes the words that are used for the woman.

However, I am disappointed, but the words of a negative image are not wrong.

I am sorry in clumsy English.
Please hear it if you want to know Japanese culture.
I answer in the range that I know.
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