WHATS AN OTAKU?
• AMV Acronym for “Anime Music Video.” It is a video where a background track is selected (a theme for the song) and edited scenes from a particular anime are strung together to make for a unique viewing experience. Action focused AMVs usually contain rock or heavy metal songs as their focus while carefully selecting their scenes. Usually tend to be fast paced. Character themed AMVs are usually either serious or humorous in nature where the song chosen is very much like a theme song for that character. Gaara from the anime Naruto has a demon living inside of him that literally watches everything he does. This song does well to describe him as a character, and thus makes a good character AMV. Humorous AMVs usually don’t use music but rather careful editing of the video to make it appear as if the characters are speaking a routine from a comedy club. Serious or drama themed AMVs are the final category. These are the AMVs that try to convey the plot of a story or a relationship between ch
(1) Original meaning: Your house (company, organiztion, etc), used as a polite form of the second person => you (2) Meaning in early-late 1980’s: An extreme fan of anime/manga/sf who lacks communications with other people and usually untidy => nerd, fanboy [Otakus used “otaku” for “you” instead of more common “anata” “anta” and that’ what gave them the title of Otaku-Zoku (otaku-race)] (3) Current Usage: Anyone obssesed or overly interested with any subject
Let’s see what Wikipedia has to say about it: “In modern Japanese slang, the term otaku refers to an overtly obsessive fan of any one particular theme, topic, or hobby. Common uses are anime otaku (one who sometimes enjoys many days of excessive anime watching with no rest) and manga otaku (a fan of Japanese graphic novels), pasokon otaku (personal computer geeks), gēmu otaku (playing video games), and wota (before referred as “idol otaku”) that are extreme fans of idols, heavily promoted singing girls.” Following the popular otaku japanese forums 4chan and nikonikodouga, probably the modern anime and game otaku is now: • Controlling their favourite idol girl in the arcade game Idolmaster (and get this: when it was released on the Xbox 360, The Idolmaster has been credited with making Japan’s ratio of Xbox Live sign-ups to the number consoles sold the highest in the world!) • Dancing to the sequence of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi and Lucky Star • Watching psycho-moe animes like H
