Amazee Dayzee wrote:Its been 8 years since I've heard the term and I still don't know it, so what the heck is an otaku?
This. Anyone who watches anime, reads manga, plays a lot of video games or dating sims, collects bishounen or bishojou figures, or basically has any obsessive or n33t-like tendencies. (Excluding weeaboos. Best not to use that term.)Sleet wrote:Basically a Japanese nerd. A slightly more broad term than an anime fan.
30 years ago it meant any sociopathic violent criminal, but that was mainly due to a newscaster's misuse of the term. In his defense, it wasn't really even considered a word at that point, much like, say, "pwn" at that point in English cultures.
In case you were wondering, no, I don't collect the figures.