Do you look like an Otaku/Fujoshi?
Here’s a really interesting survey done by goo Ranking. What makes a man appear like an otaku, and what makes a woman look like a fujoshi. So lets see if you and I are guilt of it. ^_^
This survey was conducted last year with 1,101 members of the goo Research monitor panel through a private internet questionnaire.
50.7% of the sample was female, 6.2% in their teens, 15.4% in their twenties, 30.2% in their thirties, 27.1% in their forties, 11.0% in their fifties, and 10.3% aged sixty or older.
Q1: What characteristic in males makes you feel he looks like an otaku?
Rank Feature Score 1 Anime print T shirt 100 2 Anime print paper bag 92.5 3 Bum bag/fanny pack 77.4 4 Wearing a bandana around the head in a hachimaki style 77.1 5 Bag plastered with anime-related patches, stickers 74.0 6 Unnecessarily long hair 69.0 7 Rucksack hung off one shoulder 66.0 8 Big thick glasses 58.7 9 Shirt, T shirt tucked into trousers 57.0 10 Acid wash jeans 50.6 11 Slightly high-waist trousers 49.8 12 Vest jacket with lots of pockets 38.8 13 Lots of straps on mobile phone 36.5 14 Military, camouflage print clothes 35.3 15 White socks 29.0 16 Fingerless gloves 26.9 17 Double-pleated chinos 23.4 18 I *heart mark* something T shirt 21.2 19 Unshaven face 20.6 20 Techno-cut (eh?) sideburns 20.6 21 Blue checked shirt 19.7 22 Sleeveless T shirts 18.9 23 Tank top 18.1 24 Top wrapped round waist 17.2 25 High-tech shoes 16.4 26 Clothes with detailed English text all over 12.6 27 Cross pendant, choker 12.4 28 Duffle coat 11.8 29 Messenger bag 11.6 30 White, off-white trousers 10
Q2: What characteristic in females makes you feel she looks like an otaku?
Rank Feature Score 1 Anime print paper bag 100 2 Anime print T shirt 83.9 3 Gothic-lolita fashion 73.9 4 Bag plastered with anime-related patches, stickers 73.6 5 Big thick glasses 67.3 6 Messy hair, braided hair 63.4 7 Excessively long skirt 48.8 8 Pink or green hair 44.2 9 Huge black leather boots 43.1 10 Excessively long fringe 42.9 11 Bum bag/fanny pack 41.4 12 Shirt, T shirt tucked into trousers 36.4 13 Acid wash jeans 34.0 14 Rucksack hung off one shoulder 29.2 15 Lots of straps on mobile phone 28.5 16 Big cart 26.8 17 Cross pendant, choker 25.9 18 Cullotte-style skirt 25.7 19 Military, camouflage print clothes 25.1 20 Katchusha hair band 23.3 21 Walking the streets with no make-up 23.1 22 I *heart mark* something T shirt 2.4 23 Clothes with cross design print 22.0 24 Loud clothes 20.0 25 Over-knee socks 19.2 26 Sunglasses on top of head 18.3 27 High-tech shoes 17.2 28 Top wrapped round waist 15.7 29 Paisley-print item 14.8 30 Clothes with detailed English text all over 11.8
Thank god I’m only guilty of the 1 sinful pleasure which gives me a score of 100. Yes I kinda wear anime print cospa t-shirts to school almost everyday. Basically people dun really know what I’m wearing and they just treat it as normal print t-shirts.
So how about you? Do you carry around an anime print paper bag, wear gothic-lolita fashion or maybe you aren’t even an otaku/fujoshi?
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I often wear cospa t-shirts too, but like for your surroundings, people her don’t really know what’s the meaning of what I am wearing ^^
Does it make us half-innoncent so? hahaha
Hmm..I don’t have any of the above conditions..
But I think myself as an otaku…
Weird?
WHAT_A_LOAD_OF_CRAP im sorry, that survey is all wrong, i was under the impression that otaku are people who don’t go out much, forget to bathe and smell pretty damn bad and have an obsession with something. that doesnt have to be anime you know…. i think what people seem to refer to as an otaku would be an anime fan, WELL STOP IT! ur only an otaku if you are overly obsessed and u dont wash.
wearing a t-shirt, tucked in trousers, messenger bag what ever just makes you someone who wears those things and lolita clothing WTF?! that just makes you hot! goddamn, i like thick glasses! i’m no otaku, i wash!
As u can guess this survey angered me =3
Wtf over knee socks = fujoshi? I’ve seen tons of japanese women who were clearly not otaku wearing those. What a stupid poll lol
@ Hinano: Yeah come to think of it, some items in this poll is weird. LOL
@ Dee: why would not bathing be associated with otakus? Those are characteristics of hikkikomoris.
@ Setsukyie: Its the heart and soul that matters!
@lu-k: I guess as long as people dunno what we are wearing, we can blend in with the normal people.
I used to wear gothloli clothes, but for fashion purposes. : O But it got too expensive…
I’m too into fashion to look like an otaku but I certainly am one : ( Though I wonder if I’d be considered fujoshi… not too into stuff aimed at girls.
@ alafista: I read somewhere that a prime factor in otaku-iness (yeh i made that word up =D) is that they forget to wash because of their obsessions, hey i dint make it up… I also read that at some expo’s it says “please wash before hand” or some silly thing to that effect because the people generally smell.
i dont consider myself an otaku yet im a HUGE anime and manga fan, actually a fan of japanese culture entirely. also its not a matter that you have to blend into normal society as everyone keeps saying here, you make it sound as if anime is a sin in the western world, its actually well established now. wear your t-shirts with pride, say to passers by who do not even know you and exclaim ” THIS IS ICHIGO FROM THE ANIME CALLED BLEACH!” thrust a copy of the dvd into their hands, in their bewilderment, enter their wallet and take the cash that the DVD amounts to and say “HA!” do alil dance and then make a gravey boat.
I dun wear anime t-shirts… all I have are anime ketai straps…