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Otaku (Japanese: おたく, オタク, or ヲタク) is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, such as anime, manga, video games, computers or other highly enthusiastic hobbies.
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otaku: おたく お宅, 御宅 formal, polite both A polite way of saying "your house", also used as a pronoun to address a person with slight sense of distance. Otaku/otakki/ota turned into a slang term referring to a type of geek/obsessive hobbyist, as they often addressed each other as otaku. omae: おまえ お前 very informal both
Chiizu gyudon (Japanese: チーズ牛丼, Hepburn: Chīzu gyūdon, lit. ' Cheese beef bowl ' ) , or simply Chigyu ( Japanese : チー牛 , Hepburn : Chī gyū ) is a Japanese internet slang term used to refer to so-called " otaku ", and "uncool", "introverted" and "gloomy" people.
Moe (萌え, Japanese pronunciation: ⓘ), sometimes romanized as moé, is a Japanese word that refers to feelings of strong affection mainly towards characters in anime, manga, video games, and other media directed at the otaku market. Moe, however, has also gained usage to refer to feelings of affection towards any subject.
The English word "animation" is written in Japanese katakana as アニメーション (animēshon) and as アニメ (anime, pronounced ⓘ) in its shortened form. [13] Some sources claim that the term is derived from the French term for animation dessin animé ("cartoon", literally 'animated drawing'), [ 14 ] but others believe this to be a ...
Otaku is a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests, including anime or manga. In its original context, the term otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another's house or family ( お宅 , otaku ), which is also used as an honorific second-person pronoun.
Many of these early otaku dakimakura covers were released through Cospa, a character goods and apparel store which as of 2018 continues to release official dakimakura covers. [ 2 ] Although dakimakura are sometimes called "Dutch wife", the original definition of this phrase is closer to the chikufujin , or "bamboo wife".