He may very well be the biggest, highest-level otaku in the Genshiken, but he’s also somehow the most stylish, most sociable, and most conventionally attractive.
When you’re flying around DCS World in the Weebjet 5000, you don’t get to take yourself seriously, no matter how much money you spent on your flight sim setup.
Obviously, otaku pursuits can be life-encompassing endeavours. The 17 Sustainable Otaku Goals serve to help otaku integrate their passion into a healthy lifestyle, thus avoiding burnout and conflicts both inside and outside the subculture.
For what’s portrayed by so many as a wish-fulfillment genre for lonely men, harem anime protagonists seem to have a penchant for choosing some pretty hostile women.
They build an identity around how antisocial they are, making themselves feel superior and absolving themselves of responsibility for being unable to make friends or form and maintain relationships.
Fictional characters can make good role models, as their existence is as a set of boiled-down concepts, making them free from the many intricate shortcomings of being human.
While it’s okay to value one type of animation over another (Modern cartoons don’t do much for me anymore compared to anime, for example), the distinction between the two must be objective if it’s to mean anything.
To understand fanservice and truly answer the question of what makes fanservice work, it’s necessary to break things down to a structural level and work from there.
Many cosplays can benefit from the accurate design, detail, and customizability airsoft guns can provide, but there are important things to consider before using one as a prop.
Leaving the fun, welcoming environment of a convention for the harsh, unforgiving real world can be a downer, and Post-Con Depression can hit pretty hard.
Hotels are a big deal when it comes to conventions. How you deal with the hotel situation has the potential to ruin your con experience or make it that much better.
Managing your money well is an absolute imperative to having a good con experience. Failure to plan ahead and think before spending can bring about disastrous results.