The otaku subculture took a lot of heat for Miyazaki’s actions, and felt they were scapegoated and stereotyped as “creepy loners,” divorced from reality and unable to socialize with others-ironic, considering the very term otaku resulted from socialization. Some Japanese media connected his mental instability to his otaku tendencies, claiming that an excessive devotion to anime causes a person to lose touch with reality and become antisocial, if not sociopathic.
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Miyakzi was a serial killer who came to be known as the Otaku Murderer, due to his extensive collection of anime and manga. The term otaku took on yet more negativity after the hideous murders committed by Tsutomu Miyazaki in the late 1980s. Writer Nakamori Akio notoriously popularized the term in a 1983 magazine article sharply deriding the subculture, pushing the meaning of otaku towards the term “dork,” only much more insulting and forceful. These fans started addressing each other as otaku, an honorific form of “you,” to convey their shared passion for anime and manga. These industries inspired rise to clubs, gatherings, and massive fan conventions. Japan in 1970s and 1980s saw the rapid growth of both the manga and anime art forms- manga referring to Japanese comics, and anime to the animated equivalent-and the rise of a devoted following.
Otaku is a Japanese slang word roughly meaning “geek” or “nerd,” and though it has been imported into English-speaking cultures, it still maintains these Japanese connections.
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