otaku in English

noun
1
(in Japan) a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment of their social skills.
The report reveals that their interests can be shared with video game otaku or comic enthusiasts because animation shows, games and comics often have characters and content in common.

Use "otaku" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "otaku" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "otaku", or refer to the context using the word "otaku" in the English Dictionary.

1. There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

2. Acosmic Otaku I call myself an Otaku, but read American comics

3. Many anime club attendees identify themselves as otaku.

4. Reki-jo are a kind of otaku, people obsessed with a particular interest.

5. Otaku described the film as "critique of the consumer society of contemporary Japan."

6. He's a big gun, a macho man in the world of the otaku.

7. Leading high-technology corporations say they are actively recruiting otaku types because they are in the vanguard of personal computing and software design.

8. To introduce Azuma's work on database, otaku, and Animalization to English-language readers, Mechademia has chosen an essay in which he introduces the …

9. Abel and Shion Kono for producing an English-language translation of Azuma Hiroki's seminal 2001 work Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (released in Japan as Animalizing Postmodernity)

10. In 1989 serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki was arrested and was revealed to be a consumer of lolicon manga, causing widespread opposition to pornographic manga, otaku and anything similar.