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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 name within the subculture in the 1970s, and was…

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Etymology

Usage

Subculture

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Otaku outside Japan

Works cited

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Otaku

Nodes135
Edges134
Triples168
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014815
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Otaku

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related to Works cited · 26
Otaku → An Insider's Guide, Androniki Christodoulou, Chin Music Press, Cool Japan, Duke University Press, Durham, Foreword, Frederik, Galbraith, Imagination, ISBN, Japan, JSTOR, Kodansha, NC, OCLC, Otaku Spaces, Patrick, Photographer, S2CID
related to External links · 25
Otaku → An, Archived July, Article, December, French, Geek Elite, German, I'm Alone, Introduction, Japan, Japanese, July, L'éthique, Maurice BenayounThe Politics, Meet, Michael Manfé, Not Lonely, Otakismus, Otaku Movement, September
related to Usage · 19
Otaku → According, American, Colette Bennett, English, Gunbuster, Idoru, In, It, Japanese, March, Non-Japanese, Otaku USA, Positive, The, Usenet, Video's, West, Widespread English, William Gibson's
related to Etymology · 18
Otaku → Do, Eiji, Gainax, Hikaru Ichijyo, In, It, Japan, Japanese, Lynn Minmay, Macross, Motoko Arai, One, Science, Social, The, Tottori Prefecture, Variety, Western Japanese
related to Media · 18
Otaku → American, Anime, Comic Party, Filipino, Gainax's, Genshiken, Japan, Media, NEETs, No More Heroes, Otaku Girl, Otaku Unite, Other, Travis Touchdown, Video, WataMote, Welcome, Works
related to Subculture · 13
Otaku → After, Comic Market, Even, Fan, Fan Rōdo, In, Japanese, Kaichirō Morikawa, Mobile Suit Gundam, Secondly, These, Those, Until
related to Subtypes · 10
Otaku → Akiba-kei, Akihabara's, Akihabara-style, He, Japanese, Miyadai, Reki-jo, Some, The, There
related to Places · 9
Otaku → Akihabara, Another, Ikebukuro, Nagoya, Nagoya City University, Otome Road, Students, The, Tokyo
related to Otaku outside Japan · 8
Otaku → American Gen-Zs, Based, Crunchyroll, Dentsu, Japanese, July, Kim Morrissy, Westerners
related to Classification · 5
Otaku → NRI, Of, The, The Nomura Research Institute, These

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anime japanese manga subculture term japan fans used type interests social video 2005 also people media research usage works fiction

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animeinstance ofand pastimes0.80text
mangainstance ofand pastimes0.80text
video gamesinstance ofand pastimes0.80text
virtual realityinstance ofand pastimes0.80text
and cosplayinstance ofand pastimes0.80text
Space Battleship Yamato to create their own mangainstance ofThe subculture took shape in the '60s with the release of the manga series Astro Boy and by the '70s led fans of anime0.80text
called doujinshiinstance ofThe subculture took shape in the '60s with the release of the manga series Astro Boy and by the '70s led fans of anime0.80text
which they began sharing at conventions such as Comic Marketinstance ofThe subculture took shape in the '60s with the release of the manga series Astro Boy and by the '70s led fans of anime0.80text
addressing one another by the formal term otakuinstance ofThe subculture took shape in the '60s with the release of the manga series Astro Boy and by the '70s led fans of anime0.80text
Mobile Suit Gundaminstance ofwith the release of hard science fiction works0.80text
Otakurelated to Anti-Otaku sentimentAnti-Otaku0.60section
Otakurelated to Anti-Otaku sentimentSome0.60section

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