I stumbled upon a pathetic documentary which tackles the subject of ‘cosplay‘ and [somehow] the ‘otaku culture‘. The lack of substance in the video pissed me off so bad that I had to stop watching half-way through. It shouldn’t even be called documentary as a documentary must be full of substance so the viewers would understand what the sub-/culture is, not some noon-time cheesy Q&A show.
My group will make a documentary in the long-run, and I know it will DEFINITELY be able to make the viewers understand what ‘cosplay‘ is and what ‘otaku‘ are (yes, without the ’s’. It’s plural), what kind of culture they are in, what are the ‘good points’ and the ‘bad points’ of an otaku are, what kind of life they live in, and of course, the view of the outside world.
The common misconception of ‘normal people‘ is that, the otaku are limited to anime, manga, and cosplay -- which is DEFINITELY wrong. Go study the culture then define ‘otaku’ once more. It doesn’t matter if it’s a loan word, the problem is, you use it without knowing what it is originally. Study people, study. You love the culture, don’t you?
If the person/group who made this documentary ’stumbles’ upon this page, I will not apologize, I am serious with what I said.
- reposted from my other blog
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