Otaku

Finally finish my dreadful two weeks. Not only does work piled up so high in office, I also had to dwell deep into textbooks for my final exam. ^^ had my two papers this morning so I now I am as free as what. Tonnes of backlog of figure reviews. (still have one figure waiting [...]

Finally, after what seemed like six months of waiting, There Will Be Blood finally made it out to the boondocks that is the east coast, and it was worth it. Daniel Day-Lewis will clean up at the Oscars, and if he doesn’t, I will start my own strike against the Oscars right as the WGA [...]

    究竟怎樣才算是OTAKU呢？『OTAKING』岡田斗司夫曾列出過一些相關條件 ，但這條 件都不夠清楚，什麼是”對影像特別敏感 ”、 ”有著遠超 一般人的專業知識 ”呀？而且沒有也不見得就不是OTAKU，所以筆者打算設計一個問卷測試，來讓各位自我測試是不是OTAKU，方便日後再有人指你們是 OTAKU時可以苦笑（或者黑臉？）承認或死口否認。 　　以下是筆者設計出來測試各位的OTAKU度相性的問卷，包括消費、行為、技能三類，已盡可能將整個各種類型的條件列出，希望各位各位能夠以此問卷來測試一下自己的 ” 宅度 ” 。 　　以下的問題，答『是』得一分，『否』則無分，請誠實作客，別

    究竟怎樣才算是OTAKU呢？『OTAKING』岡田斗司夫曾列出過一些相關條件 ，但這條 件都不夠清楚，什麼是”對影像特別敏感 ”、 ”有著遠超 一般人的專業知識 ”呀？而且沒有也不見得就不是OTAKU，所以筆者打算設計一個問卷測試，來讓各位自我測試是不是OTAKU，方便日後再有人指你們是 OTAKU時可以苦笑（或者黑臉？）承認或死口否認。 　　以下是筆者設計出來測試各位的OTAKU度相性的問卷，包括消費、行為、技能三類，已盡可能將整個各種類型的條件列出，希望各位各位能夠以此問卷來測試一下自己的 ” 宅度 ” 。 　　以下的問題，答『是』得一分，『否』則無分，請誠實作客，別

The Otaku conquest of the world continues with our latest ally turning out to be a small island in the middle of the pacific ocean. Guam is an overseas territory of USA with a population of less that 180, 000 people. More than 120 of them came out to Guam’s first ever Otaku Fest and from the looks of it, they had fun. Some of the jubilant cosplayers showing off their costumes Winners of the costumer contest first place (middle), second place (left), third place (right) Read more at Pacific Daily News Who wants to join me in planning an Otaku Fest for Jamaica?

I was surfing about the blogosphere when I noticed a comment on a post about browsers mentioning a browser called Lolifox. I thought to myself; there is a browser that I don’t even know about? How is this possible! So I looked it up on Google and discovered it was a variant of Firefox with modifications to make it anime themed! When you install it you get several useful bookmarks in your bookmark list like AnimeSuki, but what I thought was the greatest part of it was the default start page. The start page has a search box that can search not only the popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo, but it can even search several anime-centric bit torrent sites such as AnimeSuki and Tokyo Toshokan! You can download it yourself at Lolifox! It’s my new default browser. ^_^

The modern age of Anime arrive in Japan in the 1960s, and over the course of the next decade or so boomed into the giant robot, space battle genre bender that we would soon recognize as the anime of today.Evolving over the next 30 years or so, it reached a peak where it could begin to overtake and become an integral part of other cultures, much like the Hollywood of the 1930s quickly grew to encompass the rest of the world and inform their pop culture. In the same manner, American pop culture becomes increasingly informed by the trends and cult response to anime.Anime first appeared in the US market in the 60s with shows like Kimba the White Lion and Astroboy. However, the national consciousness as to where these shows came from as well as the poor marketing of the shows made them forgettable and rather than a jumping in point, they act as a nostalgic reminder.When Speed Racer arrived, the beginnings of a true consciousness that Japan was creating something new and exciting began to se

When I first read this I thought this was some sick joke are a misunderstanding but it turns out to be true. A young woman in China reported to be in her 20’s smashed open not one but two ATM screens. An anime character appearing on the ATM screen to help customers transact their business was seen by the Chinese woman and she having the wishful thinking that the anime character was inside the machine smashed it open because she wanted to see the character that was inside the ATM. After smashing the first one and failing she went on to smash another one thinking she’d have better luck! Everyone is wondering which anime character was “inside” the machine and so am I. [ Via - Canned Dogs | Searchina ]

About 6 months back I took this video of an Otaku tearing it up at a breakdancing competition. I shot this video just in front of Toyohashi Eki (豊橋駅前）. The dance he does at the end is from Hare Hare Yukai, If you've seen the anime, you'll understand how hilarious that makes it :)

In the heart of downtown Vancouver, right on Granville St. you can find the Nerd Nirvana known as Golden Age Collectables. These guys carry more manga, anime, graphics novels and figures than you’d ever care to know existed. When I was in Vancouver on business recently I picked up a copy of NextWave here and blogged about how awesome it is. This place is jam-packed full of awesomeness of such magnitude as NextWave. They also had probably everything Neil Gaiman has ever written, including more obscure stuff like the edition of Sandman with art from Yoshitaka Amano. For those that don’t know; Mr. Amano was the concept artist for all the Final Fantasy games up until X. His brilliant artistry and unique style is well known in Otakudom. (more…)

Si podemos imaginar lo que un otaku/friki podría hacer con su cuarto, ¿podríamos imaginar lo que podría hacer con su auto? ¡No hace falta usar la imaginación! Aquí hay fotos que prueban a qué grado... Esto es solo el Resumen, para leer la entrada completa, entra a la web!

There are lots of fans of Japan in the world, we geeks don’t have hide in our basements or hide or “otakuness” to remain cool anymore. In fact, lately we have been in demand now many consider us “cool”. Whether you are an Otaku or not you have to tip your hat, helmet or any other cranial protection device you might be wearing to this “lil fellow”. An Otaku expression caught on camera has never looked cooler, check out the flag he is wearing. I don’t know much about this picture other than it was taken in Brazil in 2005; I found it through my stumbleupon toolbar. All rights belong to the source, which can be found here.

Eh creado un directorio, algo parecido a un buscador (si no es lo mismo xD) pueden agregar su/s sitio/s y antes de aparecer en el directorio son revisados por mi y si todo esta bien lo agrego a la categoría que yo crea correspondiente, no hay reglas con los sitios que se agregan la única seria que no se aceptan sitios con contenidos para adultos, pero aparte de eso cualquiera puede agregar su web o blog ^^también quería aprovechar si van a agregar su sitio si quieren poner un link hacia el directorio con esta url: http://directorio.mundo-otaku.org es opcional pero así me ayudan ya que tamos :P y los que no tengan web si también quieren ayudar recomendándolo no me ofendo xDLink: Directorio

I have already branded myself as one but learned so much more about the term from a short post on a new Japan related blog I recently discovered. A somewhat straight from the dictionary meaning of the word Otaku that I recently posted is explained as "a Japanese pejorative term used to refer to a variety of geek particularly one obsessed with computers, or anime and manga." What of the origins of the word, this post explains it quite nicely. ^_^ In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when anime and manga fans in Japan were meeting one another at domestic conventions, they began to recognize one another's faces, though they did not know each other by name. By way of greeting, they said, "ota-ku," roughly meaning "hey, you," though with the more formal, less casual intimations of the French second-person address, "vous." In American English, it might be more like, "Hello there, sir." In 1983, when Japan's economy was beginning its monumental rise, journalist Akio Nakamori wrote a seriali

Maid costume today One of the most popular outfits of Japanese Cosplay is the maid costume known as "maid fuku (fuku=clothes)". Cosplay, or rather, costume playing, dressing up in a variety of costumes in public or private, is a very popular pastime for many young people in Japan. There are [...][ read the article ]

Today I found this website in meneame, where Linux is very appreciated. Those are a series of very artistically wallpapers where we can see Linux distributions’ OS-Tan The artist has some more pieces of her work available at Deviantart. Ok, now you may be wondering what OS-Tan is. Perhaps something similar to habitaquo? Well, it’s a creation, but it has nothing to do with habitaquo. The OS-Tan are some manga girls (in case you want to find the boys you have to look for OS-kun) who personify the many operating systems (OS), each one having its own behaviour. It all started then the Japanese from Futaba Channel imagined WindowsME as a problematic and doubtful girl. From that time on many characters for all Windows versions, some other OSs and software have been created. There are comic books with all of them, and each aspect of the Operating System is represent within their behaviour. In Spanish there are few available, but some time ago I read some translated comic books at

Today I found this website in meneame, where Linux is very appreciated. Those are a series of very artistically wallpapers where we can see Linux distributions’ OS-Tan The artist has some more pieces of her work available at Deviantart. Ok, now you may be wondering what OS-Tan is. Perhaps something similar to habitaquo? Well, it’s a creation, but it has nothing to do with habitaquo. The OS-Tan are some manga girls (in case you want to find the boys you have to look for OS-kun) who personify the many operating systems (OS), each one having its own behaviour. It all started then the Japanese from Futaba Channel imagined WindowsME as a problematic and doubtful girl. From that time on many characters for all Windows versions, some other OSs and software have been created. There are comic books with all of them, and each aspect of the Operating System is represent within their behaviour. In Spanish there are few available, but some time ago I read some translated comic books at

Hoy me he encontrado con esta página en meneame, allí donde linux gusta y mucho, son una serie de Wallpapers con mucho arte donde podemos ver a las OS-Tan de las distribuciones Linux. La artista en cuestion tiene unas cuantas obras de arte más disponibles en Deviantart. Vale y ahora os estareis preguntando que son las OS-Tan ¿es otro invento como lo de habitaquo? Es un invento sí, pero no tiene nada que ver. Las OS-tan son chicas manga (si quereis ver chicos tendreis que buscar los OS-kun) que personifican a los diferentes sistemas operativos, cada una con su propia personalidad, todo empezo cuando los japos de Futaba Channel se imaginaron al WindowsME como una chica problematica he indecisa y desde entonces se han inventado personajes para todas las versiones de windows, otros OS he incluso software vario. se han creado comics con todas ellas y cada aspecto del sistema operitivo en cuestion queda reflejado en su forma de ser. En español no hay muchos recursos, aunque en su día

Hoy me he encontrado con esta página en meneame, allí donde linux gusta y mucho, son una serie de Wallpapers con mucho arte donde podemos ver a las OS-Tan de las distribuciones Linux. La artista en cuestion tiene unas cuantas obras de arte más disponibles en Deviantart. Vale y ahora os estareis preguntando que son las OS-Tan ¿es otro invento como lo de habitaquo? Es un invento sí, pero no tiene nada que ver. Las OS-tan son chicas manga (si quereis ver chicos tendreis que buscar los OS-kun) que personifican a los diferentes sistemas operativos, cada una con su propia personalidad, todo empezo cuando los japos de Futaba Channel se imaginaron al WindowsME como una chica problematica he indecisa y desde entonces se han inventado personajes para todas las versiones de windows, otros OS he incluso software vario. se han creado comics con todas ellas y cada aspecto del sistema operitivo en cuestion queda reflejado en su forma de ser. En español no hay muchos recursos, aunque en su día

[ September 1, 2007; 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] What happens when Japanese culture and Filipino culture collide? FIND OUT AT: Dream2Reality Production’s OTAKU FIESTA 2K7 “The FUSION of Japan’s Matsuuri and Philippine’s Pistahan” September 1, 2007 Kapitan Moy [J.P Rizal, Sta.Elena, Marikina City] (near Teatro Marikina, beside OTTO Shoes) The FUN starts at 2 P.M 80 pesos Fashion Show | Band Performances Art Exhibits | Fun Activities Cool Booths BAND PERFORMANCES BY: Neotaku [...]

Auch wenn mein erster Post für heute sich mehr mit Videospielen beschäftigen könnte (z.B. Arbeiten an Doom 4 haben begonnen - das wird aber sicherlich einer meiner Kollegen machen oder ich auch - wer weiß), dieser Pudding aus Japan hat es mir leider angetan. In der ganzen News könnt Ihr ...