Slide to explain what an Otaku is

1. WHAT IS AN OTAKU?
MATUMIT SOMBUNJAROEN
V1.0
2015/10/20

2. ORIGIN OF THE STORY
Thus, I made this Slide to explain how stupid that statement is,
and to explain what Otaku really is
There was an argument saying that
The Definition of “Otaku” is
Disgusting people who like Japanese
Manga and Anime
+
Being A bunch of Social Awkward

3. A SELF INTRODUCTION
I’m sort of an expert in Otaku-ism
My Previous Slide 「タイにおけるオタク人生」got 100k+ views

4. MORE OVER,
Origin of the Term

5. LET’S START WITH AN ETYMOLOGY
The word Otaku – オタク
Literally come from the word
お宅
Which mean “House”
Also pronounced “Otaku”

6. COMMON USAGE
お宅に伺います
I will visit you at your home
This is said in
an honorific and polite manner

7. A MORE SPECIALIZED USAGE
The phrase is also usually used when
asking for a permission to visit a specialist
As such, there is a nuance of
Otaku  Specialist

8. LATER USAGE
A precursor to the modern usage of the term
During 80’s
“Otaku” became
a Honorific slang for “You”,
Usually used on a person with
extensive knowledge on a matter
with limited audiences

9. AS SUCH
Practically, because those interests
usually have limited audiences
“Otaku”

People with interests that general public
could not comprehend with

10. MORE OVER,
Actual meaning
Of the term

11. AS PREVIOUSLY STATED
In actual nuance
“Otaku”

a person with
extensive knowledge on a matter

12. AS SUCH
Seriously, most Human being is an Otaku on something
Even though “Otaku” is not used to call these people
Jewelry Collector  Jewelry Otaku
Chemist  Compound Otaku
Bookworms  Book Otaku
Lottery  Otaku Huay
Thailand’s CH7 Soap Drama  Otaku Lakorn Chong Jed
Specific to
Thailand

13. IN A MORE COMMON USAGE
Refer to people who have extensive interests
in Japanese Manga and Anime Culture

14. DIFFERENCES IN TERMINOLOGY
Expert
/
Specialist
Otaku
Fan
GeekNerd
Have more
obsession over a
more specific part
within a topic
Have interest in
Academic pursuit
over a topic
Use topic as a form
of profession
Know pretty much
everything about a
topic
A Closer meaning for
Otaku in
Common usage

15. MORE OVER, The origin of
Conception that
Otaku are
Social awkward

16. BEFORE GOING TO THE MATTER
To people who did not study
Psychology out there,
Myers-Briggs Personality Test
is a test that categorize human
personality into 16 categories,
Based on combination of 4 factors
Next, I will talk about Introversion VS Extroversion

17. INTROVERSION AND EXTROVERSION
Prefer companionship of many
people
Usually have interests that can be
joined by many people
Prefer to be alone
or in group of really close friends
Usually have interests that are
comprehensible by a limited group

18. THE THING IS Come and Join us!
I’m reading
36 Stratagems
Huh?
Why do you even
need to read that?
Seriously, I don’t have fun
being around you people
There are Extroverts who have problem
comprehending Introverts’ interests
As such, for them, Introverts are “Socially Awkward”

19. BUT THE MATTER IS
I’m reading
36 Stratagems
They simply have their own groups of people
who they can share interests with,
As such, thinking someone is being a “Social Awkward”
is just a matter of egotistic Point of View
Do you believe that it
was really written by
Sun Bin?
Hm, wanna talk about
Clausewitz?

20. MORE OVER,
On the case with
“Otaku”

21. TO SUMMARIZE THINGS
They are viewed as being “Weird” “Disgusting” “Social Awkward”
Simply because people who said so
lack the ability to accept or comprehends things
beyond their understanding

22. IN THE CASE OF MANGA ARTIST
Manga Artist are… well,
Artists
But they simply draw images
that are not prefer by
certain group of people

23. SIMILARITY?
Vincent Van Gogh
Sold 1 painting out of 900
in his life time
Painting Cost
100Million USD
After Death

24. IN THE CASE OF COSPLAYER
Cosplayer are pretty much
Fashion Designer
But simply with different kind of
Fashion Sense from what populace
would consider normal

25. SIMILARITY?
Paris Fashion Week
2015

26. MORE OVER,
Anyhow

27. COMIKET
Comiket
the largest Convention for Otaku in the world,
have more than 500k Visitors in 2015

28. THUS
Calling Otaku Weird or Socially Awkward
would be equivalent to saying that
Something need to have more than
500k people associated with it
in order not to be weird or awkward

29. AGAIN
“Otaku”

a person with
extensive knowledge on a matter

30. MORE OVER,
Finally,
a final Word

31. Seriously,
Using English Dictionary as a 1st source
to absolutely define a Japanese vocabulary
is just damn stupid!!!