The pool's public, so feel free to edit whatever you don't like. I didn't intend to put all of mountain_pukuichi's stuff in this pool, but I thought I could throw in a couple to point people who were interested in the right direction.
Aline said: You know, Konata should be like this if Lucky Star was about real life. Or she should bring a gun to school and do some school shooting, then, becoming an hero... Or something like that.
That would be awesome, yet how would she become an hero..that's the question..
See this, all you hardcore otaku who might be reading this? That's how your kind are treated in Japan. The Japanese don't like otaku. At all. Unless they're businesspeople who want to sell merchandise for pandering series like this one.
Basically, in Japan, like anywhere else, there are two kinds of nerds--the normal kind who get somewhere in life but are still never entirely accepted by society, and the ones who are just completely detached from reality and will never amount to anything. Otaku are the latter, and Japan hates them because they avoid work and relationships and everything else a normal human is supposed to do in favour of their hobby, usually anime and manga, which has become their life. In short, otaku are nerds who took their hobby way too far.
RaptorJesus said: In this case, it just sounds like she's being teased for liking animu, though.
Oh, kids.
She's being teased for being such a huge anime/manga otaku. This is how otaku are treated in Japan. They have no friends who aren't also otaku, they're viewed as the trash of society, and they're mercilessly teased in school for letting friggin' cartoons take over their life.
damn...the true trash are the non-comprehensive people...im not that much fan to be an otaku but...i really hate that kind of people...why can they just die as much as they want otaku people dead ?
SindriAndBale said: So based on that, Konata is the productive type of nerd? I mean she does have a job, and she does go outside and hang around with her friends pretty damn frequently. What is this comic, some kind of bizarre alternate universe?
Uh, did you not notice that even her job and daily social life need to revolve around anime? She works at a COSPLAY CAFE and makes endless references to otaku shit no one cares about in everyday conversation. She tries to apply anime archetypes to her friends. She's known to be obsessed with h-games. She sees herself as Haruhi Suzumiya's rival {granted, this is just a bullshit excuse for KyoAni to advertise their precious Mary Sue in every episode, but still}. She greatly prefers playing video games and watching anime over being active and keeping up on her studies. This is not normal or encouraged behaviour in Japan.
This comic is showing that if Lucky Star took place in the real world, that magical land outside the imagination that no otaku ever seems to venture into, Konata would be friendless and looked down upon by society.
HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I CAN'T READ AND THUS SUCK COCKS.
Anyway, big difference: Otaku IS a nerd, but without the pride or less-than-negative connotations it has today. Think back when it actually MEANT an insult.
It's still an insult in its country of origin. That's what alot of American fans who wear it like a badge of honour don't get. An otaku is an over-obsessed nerd with no interests outside their hobby who usually contributes little to nothing to society and very often has no social life unless their friends are also otaku or otherwise unpopular. Not a simple nerd or fanboy, AN OVER-OBSESSED HOBBYIST WITH NO LIFE. That's not what you should strive to be ANYWHERE, and THAT is why it's looked down upon in Japan, a country where people generally strive to be hard-working contributors to society. Imagine that, a country where hard work is encouraged instead of laziness!
RaptorJesus said: HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I CAN'T READ AND THUS SUCK COCKS.
Your doing it wrong.
SindriAndBale said: Which in turn makes me look down on those people that make themselves seem superior to otakus/nerds/whatever you want to call them. I also notice you said "in japan", which makes me think that their heads are stuck too far up their own asses. You don't see nerds being treated like the dregs of society in the States. People stuck in traditional values and ideals of the past are too obstinate to ever accept anything different so we get shit like this comic happening. I think if I saw someone doing this to a nerd I'd probably punch them in the mouth.
And this.
Just because people have hobbies different from others [albeit the hobby takes over the person's life completely] doesn't give them the right to treat them horribly :|.
What else do you call a girl who gets everything she wants without question and is made out to seem like a great person despite clearly being terrible?
TheSwedishElf said: No, you're just a fucking idiot who thinks there's no such thing as an anime fan who isn't an out-of-shape shut-in who lets their hobby run their life. And apparently you think you're witty, using a phrase that was around when my mom was a kid to try and pwn someone because you're scared to admit you're wrong.
Way to go to call other people idiots. *Sigh.* Get yourself a life, man.
Those mentioning the supposed difference between "Japanese otaku" and simple "Japanese nerds" are ignoring that kids do not have the choice of clarifying the depth of their affection for their hobby when they are being bullied. Bullies do not need valid justification for their behaviour. You are "an otaku" if you are labeled as such, and will be treated as trash based solely on that labeling. The only requirement for this is that you are observed to like nerdy things more than your peers.
It should also be pointed out that no one in school is, by definition, a NEET, and that NEET and otaku are unrelated terms.
Morni.. OhGyahahaha, so true, otaku girls should just masturbate to anime charactersShe's so annoying, putting up the cute girl act even though she's an otaku. What's up with that? Is she trying to get guys when she's an otaku girl?There's no way anyone is stupid enough to fall for a disgusting otaku girl like her!!Die!Otakus are grossAbout 3 cm, lolIzumi Konata is a gross otakuOh, it's just otaku girl, wasted my breath!!Isn't otaku girl disgusting?Die, otaku girl!Go back to the 2D world!Die otaku! Die otaku!↑
otaku girl's pussy ← gross!Why do I have to go through all this suffering just because I like anime and manga?fujoshiAt times like these, I recite in my heart a charm my dad taught me when I was little. "Lucky Star-san, Lucky Star-san, please give me even a small bit of happiness."