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.
The vandalism at RainFurrest doesn’t represent the whole of the furry community. Nonetheless, a relative few malcontents do have the power to ruin everyone else’s fun.
Cosplay is a performance in service to a character. It’s what happens when you love a character so much, you want to become them, at least for three days at a convention.
It’s inspiring whenever geeks, nerds, and otaku go out of their way to look out for other geeks, nerds, and otaku, and Operation Hammond is that at scale.
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.
Capable of controlling the light, A.C., and other household appliances, as well as functioning as an alarm clock and a weathergirl, Vinclu Inc.’s Gatebox is Amazon’s Alexa with an otaku spin.
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
In the anime fandom, moe (often spelled moé) has been a hot-button for the last decade or more. Some love it, some hate it, but many don’t even know what it is.
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.