/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20445051
Otaku no Video is honestly one of my favorite pieces of media that exists, not just because of the content (which is great, don't get me wrong), but also because of the concept. You'd have to be pretty ballsy to release something like OnV right in the wake of the "Otaku Murderer" incident. But at the same time, it's tasteful, and it comes clean. It says, yeah, we're a bunch of weirdos, and we have our problem children, but at the end of the day we're just a group of people brought together by the passion we have for our hobbies. I really have to wonder what the otaku community of 1991 thought about it. I would do unspeakable things to know the discussions they had about it.

I also really like Densha Otoko, but I do wish that there was more focus on the actual threads that inspired the uber successful media adaptations. S still, those adaptations really improved Japan's cultural view of otaku, which I think is a good thing in the long run, so I can't complain too much.

>Could you tell me of the influence of Haruhi and the Akihabara massacre in the mid-2000's?
>>20437736 is me as well. Haruhi's success is extremely well documented, but I think it's still pretty understated. Hero Academia, Sword Art Online, and Attack on Titan have extremely wide appeal across languages and cultures, but Haruhi is pretty much one of the most otaku-centric things you could possibly make. But the light novel still moved 4 million units in its first two months, everyone and their yaoi paddle holding grandma knew the Hare Hare Yukai, and it paved the way for Sword Art Online to exist, for better or for worse. Haruhi was the first true massive otaku cultural phenomena to happen in a long time (probably since Tokimeki Memorial honestly), and because of how the anime/otaku community works now, it could be the last one for a good while.

On the other hand, the effects of the Akihabara massacre are a lot harder to define. There was definitely a huge sense of unrest in Akihabara right after that time, as can be seen from the massive lists of copycat threats and arrests made right after the massacre. But events like this have a much more subtle effect on a community. Maybe someday someone will gather up a bunch of experts on Japan, otaku culture, sociology, and psychology, and then we'll get a more solid answer, but until then, all I can tell you is to watch a video of Akiba from the 2000s, and a video of Akiba today (preferably one without some random gaijin screaming into the camera about how much hentai they're gonna buy), and you might be able to feel that something is just... different. Aside from the obvious shit like certain works rising and falling in popularity.

Need a link to a site with all the albums from C81 on.
I can't remember them at all.