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

“Lurking at the foundations of otaku culture is the complex yearning to produce a pseudo Japan once again from American-made material, after the destruction…

— Hiroki Azuma

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

— Hiroki Azuma

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is…

— Alain Ducasse

“You`ll wondering why aren`t you born in Japan if you think you`re an Otaku”

— Otaku

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

— Arthur Erickson

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

— Hiroki Azuma

“In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else—by turning it into a…

— McKenzie Wark

“Different cultures and all that, but it’s true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.”

— Donna Tartt

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and…

— Toni Collette

“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

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro