/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Being "otaku" has always been normal. The only reason it's looked down upon in Japan (or was, it isn't really anymore and younger otaku are completely open and cool about it) is the whole fit with the herd Buddhist culture.

In the West, where individualism is prized, nobody gives a fuck what you like. Everyone is trying to be unique. If you are shunned, or insulted, it isn't because of your interests. Ten years ago if you were a perfectly normal dude but in your free time you obsessively unlocked every route in untranslated VNs nobody would give you a hard time over it unless you autistically approached everyone in the area and explained it to them and smelled like ass or something, which a lot of "otaku" do! They try to fit into some world that's easier than the real one and justify it with the words "I'm different!". Really, nobody is different. It's a set of circumstances.

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Companies will translate anything that makes money. There's not some conspiracy here. It's business as usual.