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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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