Otaku


Otaku (御宅) is a Japanese word used to refer to people with obsessive hobbies. In Japan is used in general, you can be a "photography otaku", a "travel otaku", a "manga otaku" or "whatever otaku". In other countries the term has a more specific meaning, and refers to people who loves "anime", "manga", "jpop" and Japanese culture in general. In this category you can find otaku culture related experiences I'm having in Japan.

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Melonpan

Por kirai el 14 de April de 2009 en Food, History, Otaku

Melonpan pan is one of my favorite Japanese sweets. Melopan are sweet bread with the shape of half melon, the texture inside is like bread and on the surface it is crispy.

Originally melopan did not have melon flavor, the name came just from the shape and the wrinkled surface that reminds that of a melon. [...]

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Expanding our merchandising business lines

Por kirai el 01 de April de 2009 en Otaku

Last year Danny and me, after lots of thought we decided to move from the old Internet business and start licensing our mascot character Mirai-chan creating an eroge videogame. It was a great decision, Miracle Mirai sales have been doing quite well during this last fiscal year and we are reinvesting that money into expanding [...]

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Lego Space Shuttle

Por kirai el 30 de March de 2009 en Otaku

These two Japanese guys have built this amazing Space Shuttle using 65000 lego bricks and 1590 hours (Two persons). Amazing!

It seems that the guys who made this Space Shuttle are going to join an event that is going to try to beat the world tallest Lego tower ever built. If you want to see the [...]

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Tiger Mask

Por kirai el 20 de March de 2009 en Otaku

It looks like the guy on the pictures I showed you the other day is pretty popular and well known in the Shinjuku area. I had no idea but Roy who has been living in Japan for ages knew about this guy who’s nickname is Tiger Mask.
Tiger Mask has been wandering around Shinjuku always wearing [...]

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Akihabara, otaku and geek sacred land

Por kirai el 21 de November de 2008 en Otaku, Travel

Akihabara is the biggest electronics shop district in the world and one of the most important Japanese pop culture springs. Akihabara dreamed place for gadget, technology, anime, video games, robots and manga lovers. Akihabara is where many geeks and otakus from all around the world dream to travel once in their life. Located near Tokyo [...]

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Tokyo Rock Trooper

Por kirai el 07 de October de 2008 en Otaku

This is the newest Stormtrooper video by Danny.

More Stormtrooper videos:

Tokyo Dance Trooper
iPhone trooper
Shibuya Dance Trooper
Caramell Trooper

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Ai Madonna - 愛まどんな

Por kirai el 25 de March de 2008 en Otaku

The other day walking around Akihabara with Danny we stumbled with a group called Ai Madonna. It’s an otaku group, they perform live art drawing manga on their clothes, skin and various combinations. More information and pictures in their official site.

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Tokyo Dance Trooper in Shibuya

Por kirai el 29 de October de 2007 en Otaku

It’s been a long time without any new video. But last week, after Youtube Mix I went to Shibuya with DannyChoo and this is the result:

More info about the video

Stormtrooper/Dannychoo related posts:

Stormtrooper in Tokyo
Darth Vader costume
Darth Vader Behind the scenes
Tokyo Dance Trooper

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Next Japanese prime minister is an otaku

Por kirai el 13 de September de 2007 en Otaku, Society

Yesterday the Japanese prime minister resigned. Abe will not be anymore the prime minister and will probably be substituted by Aso, a man who declares himself as a manga and anime fan. He reads around 10-20 weekly manga magazines, he did political speeches in Akihabara and he is a Rozen Maiden otaku. He likes [...]

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Uchimizu

Por kirai el 13 de August de 2007 en Otaku, Traditional

“Uchimizu” is a Japanese tradition in which you have to sprinkle water on the floor. The main purpose of this tradition is to refresh the ambient during the hot summer.

How to “uchimizu”. From uchimizu.jp.

My grandmother does exactly the same back in Spain, she usually sprinkles water on the streets around our home. In Spain we [...]

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