Tuesday, April 1, 2008

The Hits Keep Coming

Another non-April Fool's Day joke. Neojaponisme features the first-ever English translation of the first known use of "otaku" in the Japanese media. Hard to believe it took less than 25 years for the term (and culture) to spread around the world.



Yup, that's the Patrick Macias who recently launched OtakuUSA. Here's Part 2:



[Update 4/2/08: For more in this vein, click here!]

[Update 4/10/08: Part II in Neojaponisme's "early history of representations of otaku" series is out.]

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