A blogger and her otaku

[Captain Japan]

[Captain Japan]

[Mulboyne]

Kaori Shoji went over similar ground in a recent Japan Times piece:

Wedding bells rang for my friend Yoshika six months ago and last night a bunch of us got together over drinks to hear all about it -- her new life as a wife to a genuine, full-fledged ota-yome (wife of an otaku or "nerd"). The ota-yome's life of course, isn't easy -- Yoshika's take on it is: sugoku henna kotoga oi (there are many very strange things). And it should be noted that Yoshika went into this with her eyes wide open, since she herself was a puchi-otaku (petit otaku, or fledgling otaku) to begin with...Elsewhere in the world such men are bypassed as totally non-eligible for relationships or marriage (and the first definition of an otaku is that he cannot, or prefers not to communicate with other human beings) and indeed, in Japan the otaku was long shunned as social outcasts...But as the years went by the otaku, once a minor and underground species, increased their numbers to become very-nearly-mainstream. Yoshika says her decision to marry had much to do with the fact that in modern Japan, it's hard to find a man who's NOT an otaku in one way or another. "Otakuga iyada nante yuttara kekkon dekinai shi, otaku wa uwaki shinai kara ne (if one refused to marry an otaku, one can't get married and besides, otaku will never have affairs with other women)."

[Charles]

Obviously nobody learned from the Belle de Jour hoax, because they're falling for it again. I guess that if the backstory isn't available in your native language, you can pull the same hoax and nobody will be the wiser.

[Captain Japan]

Obviously nobody learned from the Belle de Jour hoax, because they're falling for it again. I guess that if the backstory isn't available in your native language, you can pull the same hoax and nobody will be the wiser.

As I was reading it I couldn't stop thinking about this story, which I think is fabricated. And I suppose Artesia is a fake as well. I wonder how it was proved that she has 140k readers. Anyone know how to find the url for this blog?

[vir-jin]