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The Otaku in Transition (2008) by Renato Rivera

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>their refusal to subscribe to the norms of society and to conserve, in a sense, the essence of their
hobby by not allowing it to enter the hands of high culture nor the general public, echoes Okada’s claim that the otaku ought to be a unified community which not only does not mind being pushed into the outer realms of society, rather, it benefits from this sort of outcasting.