In recent years, anime It has become one of the most consumed means of entertainment worldwide, and the productions of this type of work grow every day with millionaire budgets directed not only to Japan or part of the Asian territory, but also to the entire world with an ever-increasing variety. . But this good image was not always like this, as a terrible moment in Japanese history marginalized the “otaku”And their tastes in manga and anime, so for many years they were seen as weird, but now that seems to have changed a bit.
Anime and otaku culture seems to be more accepted nowadays
The fact of how otakus are classified in today's culture has become relevant again due to the definition that can be seen in the Japanese version of Wikipedia, mentioning the beginning of this word and how it was used in a derogatory way in many cases, but apparently that has changed. And there is a fact that for a long time marked anime culture lovers being classified as outcasts, weirdos or even unpleasant people.
According to the same Wikipediaat first the word “Otaku"Otaku" emerged as a term to name fans, originally popularized in the 1980s. But it was at the end of that decade that a horrible event shook Japan, which involved the kidnapping of several girls in that country, having the worst possible ending. What changed people's view of otakus was the fact that the person responsible for these acts, Tsutomu Miyazaki, was an avid collector of manga, anime and various objects from this culture. In view of this, the media used his tastes to classify him as the main reason for the action.
Being such an important fact, the term “otaku”would be affected forever, but one of the current paragraphs was what surprised many, and that is that the term would have begun to be much more accepted today, attributing in this case the same Wikipedia to different factors that have achieved this. Since the expansion of the internet in the late 1990s and the rise in social status of anime, manga, video games or even idols, they have helped to change the negative connotation, only to remain today as someone “fanatic” or “fanatic”. enthusiastic.”
As we mentioned, the event had a lot of repercussions on the networks, especially in Japan, where users expressed their feelings on the subject, and it is possible to see the messages of many “otakus” from times past or from the 1990s, where it was actually seen as something bad. Many of them agree that these tastes were kept secret, and neither were many of the series that today are considered the best of all time, such as Evangelionthey could clean up that bad image.
This new definition of the word “otaku” only shows the great growth that this culture has had, not only in that country, but also worldwide, and although in many territories it continues to be used as an insult or as a joke, more and more people are delving into these media. This has also been boosted thanks to the massification of projects, which in many cases seek to reach not only the Japanese public, but also those from all over, with large Western companies such as DC wanting to create some animes of their most popular franchises.
