Failure Quote by Hiroki Azuma

“The presence of otaku culture is a grotesque reflection of the fragility of Japanese identity. This is because the "Japanese" themes and modes of…

— Hiroki Azuma

“The image of Japan that obsesses otaku is in fact no more than a U.S. produced imitation.”

— Hiroki Azuma

“The obsession with Japan in otaku culture did not develop from Japanese tradition, but rather emerged after this tradition disappeared.”

— Hiroki Azuma

“The history of otaku culture is one of adaptation, of how to domesticate American culture.”

— Hiroki Azuma

“They [Otaku] despise physical contact and love media, technical communication, and the realm of reproduction and simulation in general. They are enthusiastic collectors and…

— Volker Grassmuck

“You'll wondering why aren't you born in Japan if you think you're an Otaku”

— Otaku

“Between the otaku and Japan lies the United States.”

— Hiroki Azuma

“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western…

— Niall Ferguson

“Hokusai managed to integrate this into a Japanese vision of landscapes and nature prints which strike the Western viewer as utterly Japanese, and the…

— Matthi Forrer

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese people are…

— Oscar Wilde

“In that sense, “otaku” referred to a sudden, spontaneous, and, to most Japanese, inexplicable eruption of extreme obsessiveness among the country’s youth. One day,…

— Frank Rose