Japanese Otaku

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Japanese Otaku

• Eric Lin

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Overview

• Definition of Otaku
• History
• Terminology
• Activities
• Mecca
• BBS
• References

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Definition of Otaku

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• 1. your house your home
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• Is this Mr. Browns residence?
• 2. you
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• 3. a fanatic a (motor-cycle) maniac
• ?????? a comic fanatic
• ????????? a video-game addict.

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Definition of Otaku

• Broad sense
• Expert with something
• Unsociable
• Unstylish
• More specific
• Maniac of Japanese anime, manga, or video games.

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Categories of Otaku

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• ????(Occult)
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Otaku in English

• nerd
• an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept
  person especially one slavishly devoted to
  intellectual or academic pursuits
• computer nerds
• e.g.
• He dresses like a nerd.
• She was such a nerd that she spent Saturday
  nights at the library.
• geek
• a person often of an intellectual bent who is
  disliked
• an enthusiast or expert especially in a
  technological field or activity
• computer geek
• e.g.
• He was a real geek in high school.
• He was quickly stereotyped as another computer
  geek.

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Otaku in English

• dork
• mania, maniac
• fan, fanatic
• weenie, wonk
• Japanophile
• Otaku

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Origin of Otaku

• The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
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• 1982
• Introduction to Otaku
• ??????, 1996
• by ?????
• Why some people become Otaku?
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History of Otaku

• The Otaku Murderer
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• 19881989
• The Little Girl Serial Killer
• Anime-Otaku, Tokusatsu-Otaku
• 5763 video tapes
• Bring disgrace on Otaku
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History of Otaku

• Niigata Girl Confinement Incident
• ????????, 2000
• Fusako Sano(????)
• 9 years and 2 months
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• ???1??????, 2004

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Otaku in Taiwan

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• Even broader sense than Otaku
• Any unattractive characteristics
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• adj.
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Terminology

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Terminology

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Terminology

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• VOCALOID
• Singing synthesizer
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• Hatsune Miku

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Terminology - BBS

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Terminology - BL

• Yaoi(???)
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• GL

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Terminology - BL
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Terminology - Characters

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Activities of Otaku - Japan

• Comic Market
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• The worlds largest self-published comic book
  fair
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• Held twice a year, in Tokyo Big Sight
• C1
• 1975
• 32 circles, 700 guests
• C82
• 2012/8/108/12
• 35000 circles, 550000 guests
• Creators 71 female, 29 male
• Guests 57 female, 43 male

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Activities of Otaku - Taiwan

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• Fancy Frontier
• FF20(2012/7/287/29)
• Petit Fancy
• PF16(2012/5/55/6)
• Held twice a year, in NTU Sports Center
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• Comic World Taiwan
• CWT-31(2012/8/118/12)Taipei
• CWT-T7Taichung
• CWT-K10Kaohsiung
• CWT?PARTY-19Taipei City Mall

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Mecca of Otaku

• Akihabara (???)

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Mecca of Otaku

• Otome Road (Ikebukuro)
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• Top 3 electric town in Japan
• Akihabara (Tokyo)
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• Nipponbashi (Osaka)
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• Osu (Nagoya)
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• Nakano Broadway
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• Otaku Building (?????)

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2ch

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• Largest textboard in Japan
• Anonymous BBS
• 2.5m posts everyday (2007)
• AA (Ascii Art)
• AA Characters
• Emoticon
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ptt

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• telnet//ptt.cc
• Largest BBS in Taiwan
• 150000 users online (peak)
• 20000 boards, 40000 articles / day

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ptt

• Subculture
• Internet slang
• Cyber slang
• Martian language
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• Thanks for your attention!