How Do You Know If Someone Is An Otaku?

Posted by zenical on 29/06/10

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I found this a somewhat interesting read – over five hundred individuals in Japan were polled by the Mobile Marketing Data Labo, providing these insights into how folks can spot otaku.

  1. They are using otaku slang, net jargon or 2ch cant
  2. They just happen to have anime/manga/game goods about them
  3. They respond to otaku type keywords and issues
  4. They become very intense when the conversation turns to anime/manga/games, and only then
  5. The tunes they hum are all anime related
  6. They know excessive amounts about a given anime/manga/game
  7. You can somehow just tell intuitively that they are an otaku
  8. They talk unconcernedly about anime, manga and games all the time as if it were normal
  9. They start talking about a seiyuu
  10. They are carrying a bag from an otaku shop like Animate or Tora no Ana

Out of the 10 points above, do you commit any of them?

It’s somewhat interesting that these are the ways that you spot an otaku. To me indulging in the anime world is like a hobby for me, something I enjoy. Just like how a normal guy would enjoy watching soccer, we call them a soccer freak. But for people like us who enjoy watching anime, we’re called an otaku the moment they hear the word “anime”. I don’t see how talking about a seiyuu makes me an otaku, it simply means that I love the VA a lot to want to talk about her :D.

Well looking at the 10 points above, I only remember doing #2, #5(sometimes), #6, #8, #9

#8 is a little exaggerated though.

Source: MMD研究所 via Sankaku Complex NSFW via Kotaku

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I like anime, music and seiyuu. Fan of fripSide, Kalafina, Sachika Misawa, Nana Mizuki, SCANDAL, StylipS, Yui Horie, YUI and yuikaori.

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