On Saturday, June 26, Otaku Cafe, San Antonio’s central anime nerd destination and Japanese ... For the uninitiated, an Otaku, descriptive of a shut-in, is something of a derogatory remark ...

That's the going rate for the original two-volume edition of fabled anime ... Some otaku may suffer from serious gadget lust and collection fixations, but they are trendsetters. Big game-console ...

its original meaning is "your house," giving it a connotation of "shut-in." It can mean any kind of obsessive, not just one of anime and manga and pop culture. There are train otaku and military ...