How to spot a otaku in the real world

[DBloke]

A strange survey thing I found while lookin round at for random loltat

http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/01/12/how-to-spot-an-otaku-and-an-otakette/

Over the 21st and 22nd of November 2007 1,101 members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.7% of the sample was female, 6.2% in their teens, 15.4% in their twenties, 30.2% in their thirties, 27.1% in their forties, 11.0% in their fifties, and 10.3% aged sixty or older. Note that the score reported is the relative number of votes each choice got, not the percentage of the sample that chose each option.
Particularly for the male answers, otaku has strong connotations of being an anime or manga freak, rather than the slightly more generic use of someone who’s heavily into any hobby, judging by the answers below!

Q1: What characteristic in males makes you feel he looks like an otaku? (Sample size=1,101)

Rank Feature Score
1 Anime print T shirt 100
2 Anime print paper bag 92.5
3 Bum bag/fanny pack 77.4
4 Wearing a bandana around the head in a hachimaki style 77.1
5 Bag plastered with anime-related patches, stickers 74.0
6 Unnecessarily long hair 69.0
7 Rucksack hung off one shoulder 66.0
8 Big thick glasses 58.7
9 Shirt, T shirt tucked into trousers 57.0
10 Acid wash jeans 50.6
11 Slightly high-waist trousers 49.8
12 Vest jacket with lots of pockets 38.8
13 Lots of straps on mobile phone 36.5
14 Military, camouflage print clothes 35.3
15 White socks 29.0
16 Fingerless gloves 26.9
17 Double-pleated chinos 23.4
18 I *heart mark* something T shirt 21.2
19 Unshaven face 20.6
20 Techno-cut (eh?) sideburns 20.6
21 Blue checked shirt 19.7
22 Sleeveless T shirts 18.9
23 Tank top 18.1
24 Top wrapped round waist 17.2
25 High-tech shoes 16.4
26 Clothes with detailed English text all over 12.6
27 Cross pendant, choker 12.4
28 Duffle coat 11.8
29 Messenger bag 11.6
30 White, off-white trousers 10.6

Q2: What characteristic in females makes you feel she looks like an otaku? (Sample size=1,101)

Rank Feature Score
1 Anime print paper bag 100
2 Anime print T shirt 83.9
3 Gothic-lolita fashion 73.9
4 Bag plastered with anime-related patches, stickers 73.6
5 Big thick glasses 67.3
6 Messy hair, braided hair 63.4
7 Excessively long skirt 48.8
8 Pink or green hair 44.2
9 Huge black leather boots 43.1
10 Excessively long fringe 42.9
11 Bum bag/fanny pack 41.4
12 Shirt, T shirt tucked into trousers 36.4
13 Acid wash jeans 34.0
14 Rucksack hung off one shoulder 29.2
15 Lots of straps on mobile phone 28.5
16 Big cart 26.8
17 Cross pendant, choker 25.9
18 Cullotte-style skirt 25.7
19 Military, camouflage print clothes 25.1
20 Katchusha hair band 23.3
21 Walking the streets with no make-up 23.1
22 I *heart mark* something T shirt 2.4
23 Clothes with cross design print 22.0
24 Loud clothes 20.0
25 Over-knee socks 19.2
26 Sunglasses on top of head 18.3
27 High-tech shoes 17.2
28 Top wrapped round waist 15.7
29 Paisley-print item 14.8
30 Clothes with detailed English text a


Heres what I got off that male list -
1
6
19
21 - but also in other colors
26 if its a rock band ispired tshirt
I musnt have the otaku look then but goin by that list they all are goths/emos

 

[Napalmbrain]

I have the sleeveless t-shirts and the unnecessarily long hair, although I'm not an otaku. Some of those can be for nerds in general though.

 

[DBloke]

Of corse the best way to see the "otaku" breade in the wild is to go to a anime convention and look some body dressed as some body not out of bleach, Naruto, Dragonball or any massively succsessfull anime but dressed as a lesser charicter

 

[Wii_Smurf]

I have none Go me

 

[sherwood3570]

I had no idea what an Otaku was before this thread lol.

 

[DBloke]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku
In short some body that obsesis over things
More comanly used to discribe hardcore anime/manga fans