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.
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.
Rather than making commentary on otaku culture by passively studying it through a cultural critic lens, Otaku Spaces meets the otaku right where they live.
Yandere love is true love. It’s unconditional love. It might not be rational, but then again, love isn’t rational. A yandere girl is crazy about you, but she’s also crazy about you. That’s the appeal.
Monster girl fans might recognize this as the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, which is partially responsible for launching the monster girl craze of the past few years
Combining the classic Macross trifecta of pop music, fighter jets, and a love triangle with the intensity that it did made Macross Plus an instant classic, and many fans today consider it the quintessential Macross.