Otaku? Lär dig vad ordet betyder först.

6 augusti 2014 kl. 12:24

Jag har tjatat om detta på facebook, och kommer tjata här med~
Otaku är och kommer alltid vara en förolämpning och de som kallar sej "otaku"
är weeaboos som inte förstår vad otaku står för.

Här är en wall of text, hittad på Facebook,
alla som anser sig vara Otakus, ni borde verkligen läsa detta.
Lär er vad ordet betyder INNAN ni börjar använda det.

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It's been a long time since I made a long post concerning these topics.
Hi. I'm Japanese. Otaku is an insult here in Japan. We have no 'otaku' clubs, just because of the fact that the word is an insult and noone would admit that they are one because of discrimination and prejudice they would receive. We have anime and manga appreciation, but no one goes as far as to appreciate otaku.

Here in our country, we also have our own sets of insult words. Otaku is one of them. Along with yariman being whore and busu being bitch, Otaku is freak. I do not know if any of the self-proclaimed 'otaku' know what the word means. If they do, they truly underestimate the word 'obsession' as it was put into the de&s;cription. People with obsessive disorders are placed in the mental hospital, not amongst crowds. This is the main reason otaku shut themselves away. To avoid prejudice, discrimination, blatant sermon, and facing reality which they have hid so far from.

I once had a friend. I never really knew he was an otaku.

He was class valedictorian. One day, he didn't come to school. Then the day after that and the days that followed. He went to school less than five times a month and he would always look so frail. He was expelled the next month, caught trying to murder one of our teachers. Three months after that, he died with evidences of severe malnourishment, abnormal fatigue, lack of sleep and rest, psychological trauma, and complete shutdown of everything pertaining to reality. He didn't eat nor did he sleep. The worst thing about all of this is that he died comitting suicide, claiming he couldn't stand reality anymore, that noone care about him when we were all there for him waiting, that there are no 3D girls who could understand his needs. He wrote all of that in a letter.

He wasn't a hikikomori. He was just an otaku. He didn't withdraw from reality. He gave up on it. Otaku are mainly the ones to give up on reality while hikikomori stand on probation inside their houses. The suicidal rates between both tend to lean to otaku. Both are known for their obsessions, especially manga cartoons and anime.

"Otaku" is the formal word for "you" in Japanese - it's thought that the term came about from the tendency of socially awkward manga fans to use over-formal language. However, because of it's blatant use, people became more and more familiar with that meaning. In press coverage, both otaku and hikikomori have been linked with serious sex and murder crimes. While the hikikomori withdraw to their bedrooms with triggers such as poor grades or a broken heart in which withdrawal itself can become a source of trauma, otaku choose to stay at home because of their obsessive tendencies, not social forces.

Otaku means someone with an obsessive disorder for a reason. Some otaku are willing to sell their innards to buy action figures of their favorite anime. Have you ever considered you weren't really the otaku you think you were? It never meant anime fan and never will. Get your de&s;criptions straight. It could pertain to anything. Stop using it as a damn badge for proclaiming your love to animated characters and the shows they move in. It just proves how dumb you are. You should stay the anime fan that you are.

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Om ni vill visa att ni är stolta över att ni kollar på anime och läser manga,
använd akiba-kei eller anime-/manga-fan

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