According to the book Otaku: Japan's Database Animals>First Generation Otaku - Born in the 1960s and were into early sci-fi works like Space Battleship Yamato and Gundam>Second Generation Otaku - Grew up watching anime made by those first generation otaku in the 1980s like Macross and Urusei Yatsura>Third Generation Otaku - Were in junior high school around the boom caused by Neon Genesis EvangelionHow many generations of distinct otaku eras have there been since then and what describes the current generation?
>>285735477Zoomer otakus love to crossdress.
Pretty much all just playing gatcha and supporting vtumors these days. The oji-sans are still in to 2hoo and other core 'oldschool' otaku franchises.Anime and the culture around modern anime seems less otaku to me now.
>>285735853>seems less otaku to me nowI was trying to think what would the obsessive Japanese nerd be into now and I don't know what the answer is, maybe some sort of idolshit, I don't know. Suppose I could just look up what is the most popular thing at Comiket and that would be it.
>>285735966>Suppose I could just look up what is the most popular thing at Comiket and that would be it.Gatcha IIRC
>>285736032Don't even know what Blue Archive is. I'm old enough to remember when Touhou was by far the most popular thing at Comiket and I was peripherally into it (mainly the music arrange circles) and never really bothered to follow any of the trends that came after it.
>>2857354774th: visual novels5th: nichijou kei6th: light novels7th: gacha8th: Narou9th: vtubers10th: PREDICT
>>285735477>Otaku: Japan's Database AnimalsI wonder if it still applies to modern otaku
>>285737685AI slop-friends
>>285739042Jeet scam will never be otaku material.
>>285738238no plot danbooru tags anime are just gacha adaptations
>>285738238This is just an over the top way to talk about introverts preferring fantasies they can control when they're alone to the complexity of sex with strangers.
>>285738238Lolicons aren't pedophiles? Don't let a certain anon see this post, he's gonna have a meltdown.
>>285735477I feel around 2011-2014 was the last period in which anime was being made specifically for that type of 3rd generation otaku and hasn't felt like it was wholly a medium catered towards this idea of an "otaku" since. Obviously part of that is the growing global popularity of anime.
>>285741170Not typically offending pedophiles.
