A Study on the Various Subspecies of Otaku

[reyfer]

Considering ALL of us here are otaku (yes watching Japanese cartoons makes you a nerd no matter how great their "storyline" is), there must be a great many type of otaku around. Let us attempt to classify these mythical beasts into recognisable subspecies, so we can form little herds at parties and not encroach on each others’ territories. Oh, party and otaku is like… land and fish. Unless the word "LAN" precedes "party".

[RionZ]

In before Shokotan vid.

[RatBastich]

That was funny as hell to read.

[stoneden]

Wow. The Closetnerd subspecies sort of describes me. I got too close to a Narutard one time and ended up looking like one.

[Kulkulkan]

May I humbly suggest to the assembled community a new classification?

The Old Fighter-We who are veterans of the Subbed v Dubbed Wars of the 90s, devotees of shows that modern young whippersnappers have never heard of, such as Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force, and Robotech (aka Macross), the stuff that newbies see and laugh at the poor art.

[aginor]

WOOOOO!!! im a Closetnerd totally

[dracko]

They forgot us wotas... ><   according to those classifications, I am an Closetnerd .

[Dizzy]

One of my friends told me there are 3 types of Otaku in Japan.  Electric Otaku, Game Otaku and Figure Otaku.  Apparently the Figure Otaku's scare the hell outta her.

[shurastriker]

well i´m more like a closetnerd but i got almost all of my stuff from the internet so a i´m kinda a troll also O_O

BTW watching the pics i remember that in Japan they got pillows with figures of girls O_o that´s scary but maybe the Figure Otaku´s are the worst... don´t know i´m just a closetnerd XDDD

[chibilolli]

That was great 

I'm a closetnerd and slightly moeOtaku - I say slightly cos I have a fair few anime figures but thats it. No posters or pillows (wtf) and I'm female 

[anson]

I am most likely an otaku who is addicting to girls' groups (dream, AKB48...) and figures (BB Gundams)

[Damaramu]

Hmmm....would appear I fit in none of the categories listed.

However, I would definitely fall into a mixture of Old School Anime, Mecha-head (more to mecha than Gundam) and a few others.

[StreakInTheSky]

There are actually a bunch of established otaku "sub-species" that that article doesn't even mention. lol

I think shokotan is a much more reliable(and sexy) source of otaku info than whoever wrote that.

(yes I know the person isn't serious... but it makes the person seem a little ignorant of actual otaku culture <_<)

[xtree]

hahaha, i love this post.  Thank you for sharin this article i had experience with all species and can actually identify with some.

[Sexykago]

Another closetnerd here.
Not enough different kinds of otaku there.

[makeme]

Hmmm, guess im a closet nerd.

[Sexykago]

For those trolls. They betta stay in that house. Cuz if I run into one of them in real life it won't be pretty.