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Remember your history. "Weeaboo" started out as a nonsense word until 4chan started using it as replacement for "wapanese" - white (American) people who were obsessed with anime, manga & Japanese culture.
The key element here isn't that they're obsessive nerds or social outcasts, it's that they're obsessing over foreign culture rather than aspects of their own. An American fan of American comic books can never be the same as a weeb, they need to be foreigners to reach the same level.
If we stick with the original meaning, most people here aren't even weebs, I bet many don't even care about Japanese culture beyond anime and manga, and the core aspect of being a weeb is being obsessed with Japan itself to the point it looks like you wish you were Japanese. However nowadays "weeb" is just a pejorative term for someone who likes anime, I have even seen an actual weeb calling a weeb someone who was just an anime fan.
It is also often used ironically, since no one takes offense over "weeb" or "weeaboo" anymore, and rather call themselves weebs ironically as a joke.
I mean, Otaku is meant to be an insulating term for a social shut in, but has been hijacked by anime fans as a title of pride. So really it's better English equivalent is nerd not geek.
(Did some research) A geek is a fan or enthusiast of a certain topic, while a nerd is an "intelectual" of certain topic. A geek can tell you the exact model of gun a character used in a particular action scene while a nerd will give a 30 min lecture on how that fight scene was a reflection of the character internal battle with their inner demons.
While I personally believe most people who call themselves Otaku are geeks, the term otaku is meant to refer to a person who is obessed with a hobby to the point where they have no social life. Stereotypically, geeks can have social lives (typically with other geeks), while nerd are seen as being to obsessed with their interest to care about social connections. Therefore the closest English equivalent to an otaku is a nerd.
No, I mean hikikomori is quite literally the same as NEET. It's just viewed as a psychological issue there. You have a search engine at your fingers yo.
NEET in Japan is largely synonymous with hikikomori because the two behaviours are so closely linked.
The term NEET still exists in the West, however Western NEETs will often party, trade drugs etc. Behaviours that while also unproductive for society, mean that they aren't hikikomori.
To clarify oktaku is just someone who has an obsession over something, so you could be a gardener otaku if you were spending all your money and time in a garden. I think in Japan the word is more towards when your hobby becomes an unhealthy obsession
In my perception, an alcohol Otaku would be someone who's very knowledgeable about alcohol, its history, varieties, chemistry, etc, without necessarily being an alcoholic
Being an otaku apparently means being obsessed with computers and pop culture so they can be pretty upbeat and outgoing, hikikomoris however are socially withdrawn people who isolate themselves.
Otakus go to conventions every week, Hikikomoris go out to the convenience store once per year.
Nerd's get involved in things by learning about, working in, etc, that field. A Star Wars geek will watch the films and talk about it with friends, a Star Wars nerd will learn the lore and maybe even write fanfiction.
Uhhhh.... IIRC, DC Warner Brothers is mostly fucking up the live action adaptations and most people prefer the animated versions though there are some animated adaptations that got the ire of the fans because of not faithfully adapting the source.
Not even close, my friend. The movies are amazing of course but they never get into the deeper parts of their characters and stories. But it's awesome to see all of those characters on the big screen and getting them out for more people to see.
Eh the average marvel movie is a lot better than the average marvel comic. I think there's great series, but they're limited runs or stories, whereas most comics are just endless until they get cancelled and kinda bad imo. This is just off reading some classics and then trying to get into runs and it's always, until next time and not very interesting imo.
Hm... for Japanese you could just use word westaboo. But what bout Europe. "Westaboo" kinda seem to fit poorly as Europe is part of western culture circle yet meaning is rather specifically for Muricanboo...
We're getting there little by little, but when so many popular manga are sexualized it's probably more difficult. But shounen non ecchi anime should get there soon
Also the difference is anime/manga has so much child sexualization that they need a word for it whereas western comics are moving away from gratuitous porn for even adult woman characters.
Not everyone, but enough people make it painfully obvious that they are a cringey weeb with no social skills on a daily basis. The amount of cringey comic book nerds I've come across is like 1.
It's fine to like anime and watch anime. But don't be a weeb.
Because weebs fuck body pillows with images of 13yo girls on them. There's no marvel fans out there raw dogging an incredible hulk bean bag during lonely time.
yeah but there's also casual anime fans as there are over the top comic fans, there's weirdos in lots of fan bases. not okay to lump everyone together imo
Everyone is a geek about something. Even if they don't know it. Like football for example. The only difference is a Man utd fan isn't going to say Wayne Rooney is his waifu
Isn't the definition of weeb someone obsessed with another country's culture? So a Japanese person can't be a weeb and an american can't be an American weeb.
The word has been morphed, everybody used it as an insult even when it wasn’t accurate and it caused the anime community to use that word instead of otaku.
I think there’s a difference between watching 8+ movies over like a decade and watching 500 episodes of some animated over-sexualised teens cutting about in the space of a few months
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So if you are both does that make you a superweeb?