/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>19332345
>you cannot talk about non-doujin.
>Ikagura

>>17007901
>>17007916

>>16272517
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I'm not an OG otaku, nor a newbie anime fan. Just one of those, probably cancerous types that got heavily into it in the 90s because it was so hardcore and bloody and cyberpunk and stuff western cartoons lacked. You know typical Ninja Scroll, Zeiram type stuff. Although I'm old enough to have seen kids stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_the_Little_Koala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noozles and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold when they were broadcast in America, as well as the older airing of Dragonball that was super censored.

Actually I didn't get super into anime until the late 90sish and then again in the mid 2000s, even though I watched it up until then. I was more a video game player so I guess my tastes are more along those anime resembling video games and such. I'm not sure what happened in the 2000s, maybe access just became a lot easier. Because of this though, there's a gap in space between about the time of Excel Saga and the time of Lyrical Nanoha where I didn't watch most of the stuff that came out around then, which internet culture seemed to be largely nostalgic about. The biggest stuff, yeah, but there are like dozens of shows I didn't watch. (e.g. digi charat, hand maid may, mahoromatic, love hina, full metal panic) that seemed popular and that I've been meaning to go back and watch someday.

I guess there was a border of liking anime as a nerd and (anime)otaku culture that I hadn't breached yet.

>>16272537
I mean yeah hobby geeks are a thing, but I mean fantasy, D&D, Sci fi loving nerds. I don't think vehicles is a traditional nerd hobby as such, even though I love sci fi vehicles. Guns/weapons and military, yeah. Trains yeah. But going hiking and biking doesn't sound very nerdy unless it's about like camping/outdoorsman geeks. It's kind of like saying making an anime about beer to appeal to beer brewing hobbyists is nerd oriented, even if there are nerds who probably try to make old school mead and pirate-style drinks or something. There are hobbies nerds have and hobbies non-nerds have. (But I'm just trying to clarify what I meant by nerds, I don't really disagree with your pov.)

Your point is they sell other stuff besides moe characters, and I get it, but I'd argue they're still depending on it(moe characters) to attract people other than niche they're after. I mean GuP could be an actual war series instead of schoolgirl in tanks. Kancolle could be literally about boats. It's hard to explain, but like how FPS attract people who like shooting things and socializing instead of people who like playing video games, using cute characters attracts people who want to moe over cute characters instead of caring about the subject matter, and that's pretty much the intention: appealing to not-really-nerds. ("not-really" because you could argue anyone who likes anime is a nerd, which I guess is why terms like "secondary" exist to describe them, since normalfag doesn't always work)

>>16272591
>A lot of genres are dead nowadays.
>What genres?
>Here is a list of some genres that are dead nowadays.
>Genres die all the time, and besides they'll come back later. You are retarded.
>(You)
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