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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 consumer subculture of people with interests and hobbies that lie at the juncture of science and fantasy, especially media, productions, and pastimes such as anime, manga, video games, virtual reality, and cosplay. It began forming in the 1960s, took on its ...

Otaku is a word we have been watching for a few years now. The term illustrates some of the difficulties in adding recent and specialized items of vocabulary to a dictionary, as it has shifted meaning and register over the last few decades to such an extent that establishing a precise definition is problematic.

Otaku culture is a craze which began in Japan but has since spread all across the globe! In English, the Japanese word otaku is often translated as ‘geek’. Specifically, it’s usually used to mean someone obsessed with anime or manga. But in Japanese, as we’ll learn, the meaning is a little more nuanced than that! In Japan, being an otaku is a lot more normalised. To those of us in the ...

Otaku are passionate fans of anime, manga, and video games who build communities around their interests.

What are otaku? A segment of manga in Japan has formed an image-based association with otaku and has been positioned within “ otaku culture.” The word otaku, similar to the word “nerd” in English, refers to a type of person who is unpopular with the opposite sex in school and who is typified by the image of being completely absorbed in a specific subculture, such as anime or video ...