Ayu fan featured on America's Greatest Otaku

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american/western "otaku" are more apt to label themselves as otaku
the whole "we're geeks and we're proud of it" kind of thing.

japanese people, while they obviously go to anime conventions and stuff like that, don't really want people outside their circle knowing who they truly are.

i think many people on this forum are considered "otaku" by Japanese standards. Because the assumption is that "normal" people don't spend hundreds of dollars on cd's, magazines, dvd's, tour goods, concert tickets, etc. on idols.