7 May 2008, 7:26 PM
It is funny as otakus in Japan are considered to be social outcasts yet the product that they buy (anime DVD's, manga, figurines etc) have become sort of a popular export to the rest of the world. Most, if not all, of them couldn't care less of what the society thinks about them.
In Genshiken 2 there was an episode that featured Americans in there attending the Comiket convention in which they're also called otakus. I guess you don't have to be necessarily Japanese to be called one, after all, it's just a Japanese definition of someone who's really into watching anime, reading manga or collecting various anime stuff. So it seems the Japanese are aware there are many western anime fans too.
On the glasses thing lol, I always wear it whenever I leave the house but hardly whenever I'm at home XD. Oh yeah, I bought the first volume of Genshiken today. I'm really curious to read the manga version after watching the anime series. It's also the first manga I've bought in about 5 years, the last was a couple of volumes of Love Hina.
In Genshiken 2 there was an episode that featured Americans in there attending the Comiket convention in which they're also called otakus. I guess you don't have to be necessarily Japanese to be called one, after all, it's just a Japanese definition of someone who's really into watching anime, reading manga or collecting various anime stuff. So it seems the Japanese are aware there are many western anime fans too.
On the glasses thing lol, I always wear it whenever I leave the house but hardly whenever I'm at home XD. Oh yeah, I bought the first volume of Genshiken today. I'm really curious to read the manga version after watching the anime series. It's also the first manga I've bought in about 5 years, the last was a couple of volumes of Love Hina.