Introduction

Hi,

In this blog post I just wanna give a simple list of the otaku types those I want to introduce to you. Just as I explained in last post, in my eyes, I think otaku are just those people who are maniac about a specific thing or people (person). So I tried to divide them into 10 types and write each of them in a blog post in the later days. (or maybe two types in one blog post) 

Ok let’s go!

 

1. Garage Kit 

A garage kit or resin kit is an assembly scale model kit most commonly cast in polyurethane resin – from Wikipedia.
For this type of otaku, they love to collect different types of GK of their favorite characters.

2. History 

It is easy to know that this type is about people who are crazy about history. And their love for history also transforms into different kinds of things. Game is one of them, details later.

3. Tokusatsu

(Source: Wikipedia)

Simply speaking it is just like superheroes origin in Japan. Modern tokusatsu comes with the appearance of the conceptual and creative birth of Godzilla, one of the most famous monsters (kaiju) of all time. It always comes with Kaiju (Monsters), Kaijin (mysterious person) Then till right now, it can be refer to some television series like Ultraman, Kamen Rider.

4. AKB otaku.

In fact I don’t know how to name this type of fans, so I just give it a simplest name. AKB means the girl idol group AKB48, and I also want it to represent all that kind of girls group in Japan. I will tell it in detail in the later blog. 



5. Johnny's

Nobody doesn’t know the super boys talent agency in Japan.

On the contrast, fan boys have AKB48, then fan girls have their princes in Johnny’s. 

6. Seiyuu 

In Japanese, seiyuu means voice actor. It’s so amazing of them using their sound to act as even totally different kind of characters.

7. Cosplay
Same as above.


As for game, manga and anime otaku. This 3 types are so common so I don't think I need to introduce them.
So the seven types above are what I wanna tell you^^ 
Here are just a simple list of what I want to do.
I will post the first formal blog about them recently.

Refrences,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48
http://www.akb48.co.jp
http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/sengoku4/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_kit
http://www.johnnys-net.jp/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_kei