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 | | Otaku (the English word closest in meaning is "geek," or perhaps "fan") are fanatic consumers, collectors, and purveyors of manga, anime, and video games. |
 | | In Japan, mainstream usage of the word has had negative connotations since the late '80s, when four little girls were murdered by Tsutomu Miyazaki, whose loner lifestyle and cultural obsessions were described by an alarmed media as otaku. |
 | | The case highlighted fears about a generation of kids who seemed to be disappearing into an unreal world peopled by shape-shifting monsters, robots, and eroticized schoolgirls; who obsessively memorized pop trivia, drew their own amateur manga, and dressed up as their favorite characters on Sundays (an activity known as cosplay). |
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