WEEABOO VS OTAKU

WEEABOO VS OTAKU

but Maya what's a Weeaboo

WEEABOO

Someone who is obsessed with the Japanese culture and attempts to act as if they were Japanese, even though they’re far from it.

very, very far from it.

Original term: Wapanese

(Wannabe Japanese)

4chan moderators devised a creative intervention using the word-filter, replacing every instance of Wapanese with “Weeaboo"

Thinks anime is the best thing ever and will put down other visual media; mostly western animation

Will see Japan as some holy land

Often use Japanese words like "kawaii" to sound cool

Most of the time; annoying.

TSUTOMU MIYAZAKI

Killed and mutilated 4 little girls(4-7 years old) between 1988-1989

Sexually molested their corpses and ate portions of third and fourth victims

Sent letters to the victim's family about detailed, gruesome things he did to the victim

"Erika. Cold. Cough. Throat. Rest. Death."

"Mari. Cremated. Bones. Investigate. Prove."

A guy marrying a fictional character are you kidding me

Studio

Ghibli

Literally means your house

A different meaning emerged

in the early 1980s

Akio Nakamori published a series of articles titled "Otaku no Kenkyu"

Perry Bible Fellowship #62 by Nicholas Gurewitch

816 are you still paying attention

well you better be ( •̀^•́)

OTAKU PANIC

by Sharon Kinsella

References

TRUE STORY BRO

Anegasaki Nene

Sal9000

"people in the industry don't spend time watching real people"

1. Azuma, H (2009). Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals.

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

2. Poitras, G (2001). Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know. California, CA: Stone Bridge Press.

3. Kelts, R (2006). Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

4. Eng, L. (2001, September 1). The Politics of “Otaku”. Retrieved from Lawmune’s Netspace website http://www.cjas.org/~leng/otaku-p.htm

5. Yoda, T, & Harootunian, H (2006). Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present. United States, US: Duke University Press.

Hayao Miyazaki

hush son I'll get to that

(((PAY ATTENTION)))

YOU MIGHT GAIN MORE THAN KNOWLEDGE (•̀ᴗ•́)