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The Akihabara neighborhood of Tokyo, a popular gathering site for otaku. Otaku (Japanese: おたく, オタク, or ヲタク) is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in Manga Burikko.
In the original Japanese context, an otaku is someone who has an obsessive interest in something, commonly anime or manga. The term is mostly equivalent to "geek" or "nerd", but in a more derogatory manner than used in the West. The word entered English as a loanword from the Japanese language.
Anime enthusiasts have produced fan fiction and fan art, including computer wallpapers, and anime music videos (AMVs). [214] Many fans visit sites depicted in anime, games, manga and other forms of otaku culture. This behavior is known as "Anime pilgrimage". [215]
In the anime Macross, first aired in 1982, the term was used by Lynn Minmay as an honorific term. [1] [2] It appears to have been coined by the humorist and essayist Akio Nakamori in his 1983 series An Investigation of "Otaku" (『おたく』の研究, "Otaku" no Kenkyū), printed in the Lolicon magazine Manga Burikko.
Streamline Pictures (U.S., Canada; stopped producing new anime releases in 1996. The Streamline brand name officially went defunct in 2002.) Synch-Point (U.S., a subsidiary of Broccoli, defunct when parent company Broccoli International USA shut down their operations in 2007)
Otaku no Video (おたくのビデオ, Otaku no Bideo, lit."Otakus' Video") is a 1991 Japanese original video animation (OVA) produced by Gainax. [1] The anime spoofs the life and culture of otaku, individuals with obsessive interests in media, particularly anime and manga, as well as the history of Gainax and its creators. [2]
In Japan, an itasha (痛車, literally "painful" or "cringeworthy" [1] [2] + "car") is a car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo games or eroge). The decorations usually involve paint schemes and stickers.