Although at first I would divide my post into three parts, due to their large size (and to make it short and entertaining reading) I finally decided to divide 4 parts.
The first thing to note is that this is a relatively new urban tribe. The term "otaku" was born around the 80 to designate persons regarded as asocial and detained (even this term connoted a certain marginality). The otaku phenomenon, as we understand in the West hou day, first appeared in Japan in the mid 80's early 90's, winning a special relevance since the advent of highly successful publications (some well-known in the West as for example: Naruto, Bleach, Death Note ... In the case of Spain, comics and Japanese animation series began arriving in the early years of this century with a substantial circulation (previously published several sleeves but not great sales, except for some cases producing social phenomena authentically Dragon Ball). At this time, with the arrival of a large industry of "merchandising" oriented to the world of manga and Japanese anime phenomenon went on to become a true lifestyle and then to begin to emerge early tribes and associations otakus Friends of the manga (Akari (Salamanca), Association of Friends of the Japanese comic (Madrid), Association for the Defence of anime and Japanese comics (Alcorcón) ...). Today there are hundreds of such associations throughout Spain and many in the Community of Madrid that every time welcome more members. Otaku tribes as such, are also becoming more numerous (although they remain minority) and spread over more cities.
The otaku are an urban tribe is characterized by a high degree of "fanaticism" (in the neutral and not pejorative sense of the word) with anything having to do with the manga (comic version) and anime (video version) Japanese. Statistically significant higher intake of various objects of diverse nature such as shirts, posters, action figures ... in ultimately all kinds of "merchandising" in general, and a great admiration for Japanese culture.
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