Otaku?

[kyo45]

This is just three intresting question I just like to ask for everyone just for fun.

How does one become an Otaku?
How hard is a hardcore Otaku?
How old were you when you became an Otaku?

To me the first one how does one become an otaku is that they have to know Godzilla. Then he or she have to get their hands on an anime that match the things they like in movies like action, comdey, love, horror ect. When they find what they like they should go check out the manga can't be an otaku if you don't know what manga is. From their on they should get into some anime video games something like resident evil or Final Fantasy (hentai games highly recommended). After all is said and done the final stage is that they should go to a anime festival when they get though it alive then now they Otaku. If they choose to see what on the other of anime there they will find the wonderful world of HENTAI.

This is only my thoughts of people who want to be otaku they don't have to go though this they could chooses other ways. This is how i became an otaku back then i was only about 12 years old my first anime was Vampire hunter D.

Hard core otaku to me is someone who live in his parent basment and he's got modles and all of thoses long anime series like ranma 1/2 or Gundam up on his shealf. I find that hardcore

[loser_302]

My personal views.

1. When a person manages to get interested in Japanese produced (or originated) stuff. Does not limit to anime or manga. Could even include things like J-dramas/movies and light novels. I guess one can put J-music inside to since the otaku would just be interested in the singer anyway.

2. Hardcore happens when the otaku craves the presence of the thing that he was interested in. Can range from the "must catch anime episodes or will convulse" attitude to the "must own everything/anything about the anime" obsessive behaviour. Note here that one can replace 'anime' in the above statement with other J-related stuff.

3. 12. Flame of Recca rocked my world. Was the first anime with English subtitles that I had ever encountered. The rest were in Chinese (gundam wing/etc.) and my Chinese sucked. =P

[xGunner1]

Lmao if you see me in real life, the last thing you will think of me is an otaku

[titan]

actually I dont really like the term "otaku" , its got alittle bit of a "wanna-be" feeling, it can be insulting as well, like being called a nerd

i think u can be defined as a otaku when u are interested in jap, specifically anime and games

whats hardcore? those who dont really understand jap language and goes around saying " you are baka" or " minna lets go", meaning even they cant totally speak jap, they just want to be as close as possible even if it an embarrassment

[loser_302]

In a sense the term "otaku" is insulting.. If I'm not wrong the word was originally meant as "outsider"?

But then following that, I guess the popularity of anime and manga in Japan and later the world has "softened" the term quite a bit so it sort of resembles nerd and geek in a sense..

However, the same can also be said for hentai and ecchi.. Again, if I'm not wrong, in Japan hentai was a word that started off as more of an insult than a genre.. Ecchi was mainly used to describe pr0n there..

In the rest of the world now, seems like hentai has become the standard for Jap pr0n and while ecchi has become the "softer" or "lighter" version of sorts..

Just my observations and thinking process going amok here.. Apologize if I hit any incorrect points.. Only human after all.. =P