What is an Otaku?

Otaku, it's a word that has gone international. But it wasn't always a good word, in fact it has spent most of its short life as a perjorative, a word you never wanted to be called. Or...did you?

We go over the history of the meaning of "otaku," from its stereotypes, to murder, to counter-culture, to what we now mean.  What does it mean to be an otaku? Who is an otaku? Am I an otaku?

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