[[Image:OtakuComiket.jpg|thumb|Otaku at [[Comiket]]]]
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Otaku is a term used in [[Japan]] to talk about people with obsessive interests. While it is usually though to mean only [[Anime|anime]] addicts, it can also refer to all sorts of otaku. Some examples being train otaku, car otaku or robot otaku. Examples of many of these types can be found in [[Densha Otoko]]. Lots of otaku post on [[2ch]] or [[Futaba Channel]]. Lots of otaku visit [[Akihabara]].
[[Image:Hyperselfpleasure.png|thumb|Otaku are innovative thinkers]]
===Usage of the word "Otaku" by English-speaking fans===

While the word was never particularly complimentary, [[Japan]] in the late eighties went through a phase of "Otaku panic" caused by a particularly murdersome anime-obssesed  [[lolicon]], causing many Japanese to assume that all otaku were [[/b/tard|cannibalistic paedophile child-murderers]].  Strangely enough, this period of the term being lower than mud was just around the time when [[anime]] was really beginning to take off [[YuGiOh|in America]]; consequently the somewhat amusing phenomenon of [[weeaboo|western anime fans]] declaring themselves "the biggest Otaku in Shitkicker, Illinois" developed.  Even stranger however, is that as awareness of this fact was slowly spreading through the western fandom, the word "Otaku" was undergoing something of a rehabilitation back in Japan as a result of the aforementioned "Densha Otoko" phenomenon.  [[The More You Know]]. Also, your mom's a fag.

===Notable Otaku===
* [[Moot]]
* [[Anonymous]]
* [[Konata Izumi]]

===Gallery===
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==Links==
*[https://warosu.org/jp/thread/19376807 Otaku bibliography] compiled by /jp/


[[Category: Japan]] [[Category: Wapanese]]