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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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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Little fake Bruce Lee

Por kirai el 02 de August de 2007 en Otaku

I live next to Yoyogi park, the biggest park in Tokyo and also the funniest. It’s always full of “weird” people doing “weird” things, like for example me and Danny. Lately the is one guy who is every Sunday training with nunchakus, he is pretty good:

Talked with him and explained me and my friends that [...]

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Dance Vader behind the scenes

Por kirai el 20 de July de 2007 en Otaku

After Tokyo dance trooper success, Danny gave me the opportunity to become the most powerful being in the universe. I couldn’t say no, I became Darth Vader! Our purpose was to make a video where Darth Vader is dancing together with an Stormtrooper in Harajuku and Yoyogi park, the final video is at Dannychoo’s site. [...]

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Tokyo Dance Trooper

Por kirai el 03 de July de 2007 en Otaku

This weekend, before the Otaku demonstration, I helped Dannychoo to make a new Stormtrooper video . This is the result:

The video is the second most linked today from blogs all over the world, so our video is at Technorati’s top page! Even the iPhone can’t beat the power of Dannytrooper!

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Otaku demonstration

Por kirai el 02 de July de 2007 en Otaku

This weekend I joined an Otaku demonstration, probably the first Otaku demo ever. It was in Akihabara were around 1.000 otakus joined the march against otaku discrimination. They claimed respect from traditional media that sometimes treats otakus people in general as “criminals” and also the “liberation of Akihabara and otaku emancipation”. Lately many big department [...]

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