/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (2012) edited by Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin

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>the expression of being a fan or otaku of a particular idol or media product has become a normative means of constituting identity in contemporary Japan.
>The aidoru otaku (Aoyagi 2005, 205ff.) is an idol fan who displays an obsessive loyalty to the idol or idols of his choice (and the idol–otaku relationship is overwhelmingly one between a male fan and female performer). The place of idols in otaku culture makes the logic of the virtual idol clear, as she stands at the intersection of several different streams of otaku desire relating to technology, femininity, and the recycling of media fragments.