Name: Otaku culture | Japan vs America 日米のオタク文化（日本語字幕）
Uploaded: 2022-02-14T11:30:17.000Z
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I'm here today in Sharla in Japan's apartment

And this is Shine from the channel Einshine!

If not then you should check him out because he's our friend.

Shine is half Japanese. He's lived in both America and Japan.

And his channel has a lot focusing on video games or anime or kind of random stuff,

so I thought he would be a really good person to ask about this subject today.

So today I wanted to discuss the differences between otaku culture in America and Japan.

We have a lot of viewers who ask "What is it like to be otaku in Japan?"

"Is it okay? How are Japanese people going to view me?"

Do you think there are any big differences between

the culture in America surrounding anime and the culture here?

I feel like it's kind of the same, but I feel like it's a little more accepted in Japan

In America it's like, "What is this weird thing that you call 'animu'?"

And people kind of make fun of you for it.

So I guess at least everyone here is accepting of anime

[Here] you're not like a weirdo who likes foreign stuff. Right.

In America, too, we don't have many cartoons that are geared toward adults.

We do have stuff like Archer that has a little bit older of an audience.

Yeah, I love Archer, too. But there's not too much.

I was curious, though, because when I went to high school like ten years ago in America,

we had a lot of people who were so into anime

that they wanted to act like the characters

and they would do this thing called "glomping"

where you like run at someone and pretty much just leap onto them

and give them a hug. And that type of hug is called a glomp.

Yeah, they did that at cosplay conventions.

Yeah, even to people they didn't know, if they liked that character.

I was wondering if that happens in Japan.

Wow yeah, I feel like you would never see anyone do that here.

I don't think that would happen in Japan. In my school no one did that.

Rachel told me about it one hour ago and I was like, "WHAT?!"

"What the heck is that?! Isn't that just like sexual harassment?"

I think anime or otaku culture gets a really bad image in America because of that,

like people invading other people's personal space,

I've never actually been to a convention in America, but I've heard

It's not like it's an accepted thing. People get upset over it,

I feel like in Japan just touching people in general is not something you do.

Like you don't even hug people you're dating in public, so

that's definitely not something people would do to someone they don't know.

Yeah, Japanese people can read the situation better, I feel like.

Yeah, kuuki wo yomu (read the atmosphere).

So I guess like otaku here have a little more social awareness.

Yeah, when I was in school I had a couple people I knew who were otaku.

One guy was skinny and he, you know, just fit in.

And there was another one, he was fat and loud, but everyone liked him.

If I asked him, "Do you like anime?" he'd be like, "Yeah I love anime!"

He wouldn't pretend to be anime or anything.

He just said, "I like anime" and acted like himself.

So there's a word in Japanese, too. Chuunibyou.

I think it translates to like "Middle school sickness" or something.

Like people who pretend to be or sometimes even think that

they're something more than they really are.

It's not just anime. I knew people in high school who thought they were vampires.

I knew someone who thought he was the reincarnation of Jesus.

So yeah, but that's a Japanese word, so that does happen here, too.

When I was younger, I was like that, too.

I would get like a book and robe you know,

I still do it because it's funny. I do it as a joke.

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