WELCOME TO THE
National Otaku Alliance
Welcome to the National Otaku Alliance (NOA), a website dedicated to the Otaku Research Project and the Global Otaku Community: races, places, stories, and timeline. The interest has been formed from its softcore casual fans, hard core obsessed fans, and otaku lifestyle residents, along with its movements by its various leadership and groups. The research is done by the affiliated groups, individuals, and collaborators for the cause.
The goals of the page are to enrich creative growth and appreciation for the art form of illustration, comics, and animation. We encourage creative activities , such as sewing cosplay, drawing characters, environments, and effects. Writing stories, and expanding on worlds in support of the series to expand to an even wider audience base for success for those in the industry. We support creative projects which are independent or fan-based empowered by industry businesses, local groups, otaku families, and those of all backgrounds.
The goals of the page are to enrich creative growth and appreciation for the art form of illustration, comics, and animation. We encourage creative activities , such as sewing cosplay, drawing characters, environments, and effects. Writing stories, and expanding on worlds in support of the series to expand to an even wider audience base for success for those in the industry. We support creative projects which are independent or fan-based empowered by industry businesses, local groups, otaku families, and those of all backgrounds.
MissionThe mission & purpose of this organization will be to promote awareness of Japan, Animanga, and Otaku--its culture, language, history, and media, as well as the pursuit of other aspects of Otaku & Japanese Culture members wish to explore.
The vision, is to promote Otaku culture & Japanese culture to those willing to devote their time to the interest. Exploring the interest in its most thorough way for possible incorporation of Travel, Food, and Values. Celebrate similarities and differences through wider exposure and exploration. The pledge, on ones honor, to uphold the dedication to the National Otaku Alliance; to explore Otaku & Japanese Culture, practice at home, and build a interest in the community; to serve the land; and create a peaceful place for all types of interests involving Otaku & Japan that welcomes all ideas to consider. "Those who who reach out to the Nation through the internet. Now, taking the research of Culture to bring all genres under a banner to celebrate an art form that is animanga. Otaku - is the identity that is no longer just obsession and takes on a life of its own. Only through each persons actions to participate and contribute can form the future of the lifestyle. "
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What is an Otaku? (identifying as otaku)
Otaku subculture is a central theme of various anime and manga works, documentaries and academic research. The subculture began in the 1980s as changing social mentalities and the nurturing of otaku traits by Japanese schools combined with the resignation of such individuals to become social outcasts. The subculture's birth coincided with the anime boom, after the release of works such as Mobile Suit Gundam before it branched into Comic Market. The definition of otaku subsequently became more complex, and numerous classifications of otaku emerged. In 2005, the Nomura Research Institute divided otaku into twelve groups and estimated the size and market impact of each of these groups. >>Read More... |
Etymology (term history)
The Japanese word for Otaku is お宅, which is pronounced O-ta-ku, and literally means "stay home person". The character "o" (お) means "you", while the word "taku" (本) means "house" or "family home". The compound therefore means "the persons home". The oldest way of writing it has been the hiragana (おたく) version, and modern slang has formed its katakana(オタク) version, or the rarely used romaji (otaku) version. While the word in Japanese means the equivalent to "obsessive geek", "smart nerd" or "passionate hobbyist", the word has created additional meaning through its english interpretation. The English word for Otaku used the original term as the source for its pronunciation and started with its traditional definition of being a stay at home person. The term was adopted by those who self proclaimed their identity as an Otaku as a sort of specialist. As time went on otaku became its own english slang for person who enjoys "Japanese Animation", "Japanese Culture", and later "Otaku Culture". This had made the word more specialized towards things to do with creative hobbies, animanga content, and Japan travel, which couldn't be farther away from its origin definition in Japanese. >>Read More... |
Shikiri Architecture
Shikiri, means dividing, but was taken to describe a architecture style that was known as its own identity. Sometimes described as French Japanese Contemporary Architecture with color heavy design traits it also had gained the title of "Otaku Architecture", due to its fans being those who liked animanga who share a similar love for color as the style portrays. While its creator Emmanuelle Moureaux is mentioned by a nickname of the "mother of otaku architecture" she had no intentions of it her style being an interest of otaku from its concept to give emotions through color. Shikiri Architecture has traditionally been designed for commercial spaces, divided by colors and shapes, layered in spaces of several dimensions, with roofing being flat or a larger shape. Sliding doors are often slid behind the wall instead of being visible like the Japanese fusuma. |
Otaku Culture (culture of otaku)
The Otaku urban culture was founded based on the Japanese Animation and Manga. Long ago, the style of Japanese animation was inspired from American animation. Now, the style has formed into its own entity and form that is identified as Japanese Animation. The culture has grown and changed with the modern times, however, even though its changes on a superficial level the values have remained the same. The Otaku urban culture has certain mannerisms and outlooks on life that speak of a person jumping from a dream world to the real world. For example the trends might be towards cosplay and sewing in the anime club the custom of saying "Hello, I'm here" to show your respects of being present is still practiced. Separation of specialists in Japanese studies had begun with the introduction of the derogatory term weeaboo otaku that had derived from terms like "Wapanese" meaning western nerd interested in Japanese culture or "Weeb". The divide of two types of Otaku being Animanga Specialists and Weeb Japan Specialists led different progression terms, specialist terms, and further defining the similarities and differences amongst the two while still existing under the term otaku. |
Takushoku (otaku food)
When people think of Otaku food, they quickly refer to foods that are seen in anime and manga as the source of where such food would be from. This would be things like standard Japanese dishes of fast food, street food, casual food, regional fod, bakeries, and high dining. Takushoku, while the term literally means "Otaku food," the term is more than just foods that otaku eat, but is in referance the library of dishes that have evolved through the otaku people. With westerners being interested in Japans Food and Japan in everyone's food there has been many localized variations of cuisines. Otaku who take a particular interest in this document the styles as a "Food Otaku", like: Nishishoku, Washoku, Yoshoku, Indoshoku, Chukashoku, Kankokushoku, Itariashoku. |
Anison Music (otaku music)
Anison or Anisong is a music genre mostly found in the Japanese Music Industry and is generally reference to anime music as a whole mostly from the openings and endings. The word is a combination of the word anime and the word song and is found in anime-style series, games, and visual novels and crosses all sorts of music genres. A song that might be well known from a anime series or an artist. For example the likes of: Lisa, Aimer, Yonezu Kenshi, Megumi Hayashibara, Shoko Nakagawa, TM Revolution, Bump of Chicken, and Nanase Aikawa. With decades worth of music from anime (animated series) from TV, OVA, and Movies that are feature length films there are many soundtracks to take from. These important themes, anthems, scores, and sound tracks of animated works have made Japan world famous in the ways of music and many international artists have found works of such artists done outside of anime by hearing it from a series. Certain artists carry the essence of the music style so well that there are fan made playlists that have such artists in them they are said to carry the theme of the music within them. |
Otaku Sports (otaku sports)
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