What Is An Oztaku?
Response to NewGeekPhilosopher’s article “What Is An Oztaku?”
- An Oztaku is someone from Australia who is a fan of anime and manga.
- Oztaku don’t consider themselves complete losers like Otaku, because they aren’t obsessed and anti-social.
- They believe that Otaku is a derogatory term and people may discriminate against them, despite the fact that we don’t get biased media attacks on Otaku in Australia, and your average Australian doesn’t even know of Otaku.
- An Oztaku wouldn’t want to scare away his Anglo Saxon friends with some weird Japanese word, so they feel the need to add “oz” to the title so it doesn’t feel too multicultural and far away from home.
- Race plays a big part in the Oztaku scene. Being an Anglo Saxon Australian automatically gives you credibility.
- Oztaku don’t use their hobby as a counter-culture unlike Otaku who show their distaste for the system by consuming endless amounts of figures, games, DVD’s, plushies, manga and wallscrolls. Otaku also protest for the freedom to marry their favourite anime characters. Viva La Revolution!
NewGeekPhilosopher should reconsider his name. People discriminate against geeks all the time.
“I bet you spend hours of your time playing Dungeons and Dragons and reading fantasy novels you geek! You seriously need to get out more”
But do you really care what those morons think? Do you really?
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 am
Dude, that’s not what I meant at all. In any case I gave myself a bad name because I misinterpreted my own point, and got confused and acted like an idiot. Of course non-white people can be Oztaku if they’re Australian citizens, for example I extended the word to describe Blissmo from Yukan Blog, who is Asian by the way.
I’m not helping myself at all and I should probably make my article die in a fire. As if I haven’t got enough things to be depressed about.
November 4th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Well you did care enough to make a post about this…