Otaku

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Otaku (Japanese: おたく, オタク, or ヲタク) is a Japanese consumer subculture of people with interests and hobbies that lie at the juncture of science and fantasy, especially media, productions, and pastimes such as anime, manga, video games, virtual reality, and cosplay. It began forming in the 1960s, took on its name within the subculture in the 1970s, and was popularized by a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in Manga Burikko. Otaku subculture is a central theme of various anime, manga, documentaries, and academic research. The subculture took shape in the '60s with the release of the manga series Astro Boy and by the '70s led fans of anime such as Space Battleship Yamato to create their own manga, called doujinshi, which they began sharing at conventions such as Comic Market, addressing one another by the formal term otaku (you or your home). In the '80s, social changes promoted otaku traits even in Japanese schools, including juku, but increasingly left otaku resigned to being stereotyped as social...

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