Hi there,
My name’s Aki, This is my final assessment for Asian Cyber Culture this semester, I decide to make this blog as my research about Japanese Otaku culture.
In fact, at the very beginning of this semester I just decided to do the final PLAY project about the unique Japanese culture, because I love it and deeply into it. When I was very young, I was attracted by the Japanese dramas, games and anime and so on. I think I am one of them, and I am proud of being a part of them.
The word ‘OTAKU’ is a loanword from the Japanese language. It is written as お宅・オタク in Japenese. In the early times, it was used to refer to the fan who is maniac about anime or manga, and it can be applied to both male and female. But now it can relate to a fan of any particular thing. With the development of modernization, more and more people tend to spend their spare time at home surfing the Internet or just being a couch potato, they are the new kind of OTAKUs in the modern times. But in my blog, I intend to introduce the major part of otaku but not those couch potato pretending that they are otakus.
As you can see this blog site is in Japanese, and it is one of the most popular blog sites in Japan. It is known that with the development of the social network sites, people tend to write in blog less than before just spend much more time on Facebook and Twitter. But in Japan I think this trend is not the same, they spend time on SNSs, right at the same time most of them still keep the habit writing in their blog. Maybe we can say this is one kind of otaku, (smiling).
I choose to write in a Japanese blog site in order to make my final work to be more attracting. And this site named SHINOBI, which means ninja in Japanese. I think it is so interesting and can show the traditional spirits of the Japanese, so I choose this site. Hope you guys would like it.
Here the introduction of my blog is, see you in next blog post. I will introduce what I want to tell you guys through this PLAY project.