Who is the face of today's otaku culture
>>50178347miku and it's not even close.
>>50178347Hatsune Miku
>>50178347Kasane Teto
>>50178347Zundamon!
>>50178347Miku which makes sense since she’s as soulless and corporate at otaku culture is now.
>>50178347Miku/Vocaloid since it's something even non-otaku know about nowReimu/Touhou is a close secondI would also say Vtubers but the individual Vtuber's popularity fluctuates (there is no single consistent face of Vtubing)
>>50178790Usada Pekora
>>50178347Trick question? It's goku and rx78-2 gundam
>>50178790>I would also say Vtubers but the individual Vtuber's popularity fluctuates (there is no single consistent face of Vtubing)the closet is shigure ui.
>>50178347Modern otaku culture, probably one of the Umamusume girls. I don't really keep up with these FOTM things.If you're looking for something timeless then it's >>50178374, very few characters can compete with her combination of longevity and cultural relevance. Reimu comes close but Touhou has always been really niche even for an otaku facing franchise and she's hurt by other characters from her own franchise (namely Cirno and Flandre) being more recognizable by casual outsiders thanks to Touhou's heavy reliance on fan works and memes to stay relevant.
my favorite hag of course!
>>50178675>>50178918Teto is not topping Miku
>>501783473 literally who and Reimu and Miku.
>>50178975Are you a Zoomer? You should recognize the girls to the left of Reimu and Miku.
>>50178347Children.
>>50179340otaku are pedophiles?
>>50179045nta but middle should be from NGO, left is DiGiCharaDanbooru tags last one as from Chobits. Did not recognize her so had to look up sauce
>>50179379Always were
>>50179393How do you not know Chii? Chobits used to be quite popular back in the day. Also it feels kinda unfair to put KAngel in there as the whole game got popular as quickly as everyone forgot about it. Whereas the other characters had significantly longer lifespan, and some are still popular (namely Miku and Reimu).
>>50179476Never been THAT big on Otaku culture until recently, Also got acces to the internet relatively late, so I couldn't discover/enjoy otaku stuff of those times
>>50179379Always have been
>>50179045Pinterest zoomer girls are obsessed with those three though
>>50179623Are they? I don't even have pinterest so I wouldn't know. But in general, I haven't seen Di Gi or Chii being posted on most social media.
>>50179635I don't use it either. I just know that Chii, Dejiko and Kangel are popular among zoomie girls but in a "thinks is cute but doesn't consume the source material" kind of way.
>>50179649>thinks it's [Adjective] but doesn't consume the source materialIsn't that just normalfags in general?
>>50178347Flavor of the month overdose being there but not Haruhi is criminal
>>50178347Blue Archive
>>50179886Gachashit relevance is temporary.Kantai Collection and Azur Lane are already dead. Blue Archive is already getting replaced by Umamusume
>>50179933>Kantai Collectionlol i remember people calling it the "touhou killer" on /jp/ around 2015 or 2016
>>50178938Mi-who?
>>50179379My lawyer told me to answer "no"
>>50179950Even funnier is when people were calling Kizuna Ai the Miku killer
>>50179950>>50180020Never seen anyone seriously say any of that outside of 3.5 low skill baiters on /jp/
>>50180031The KanColle ones I can believe, given how big they were at the timeThe tuber, not really
>>50180031never seen the miku one but i do recall people thinking kantai collection was bigger than touhou at the time
>>50178347chii isn't even the face of clamp, let alone otaku culture...
too many foids are into otaku stuff nowadays, it's just not the same anymore, they've ruined it
>>50180143Female otaku always existed
Kanata for anime, Miku, Reimu,, Kizuna ai
>>50180143
>>50180301what do you think "too many" means you stupid ESL nigger
>>50178347>>50180111>>50179717Yeah, as much as I adore Chobits and it's essential to my otaku identity, it was big the year it was aired and then that was it pretty much it. I don't think she really has a place on there any more than Mahoro would. Fuck, Chidori would've been more accurate (and none of those shows were as anywhere near as ubiquitous as Haruhi, Touhou, or even Di Gi Charat).Chii being in Haruhi's place is appreciated but perplexing.No clue who the girl in the center is so bump her off.To answer the actual question, it depends on how you define "otaku" since the sphere covers a lot more people outside Japan now. What in the 2000s would have been people who only know the big three know more shit now and also probably watch vtubers and fap to more hentai. What Code Geass's equivalent in modern popularity is shit like Chainsaw Man or probably more accurately Demon Slayer, neither of which I can really comment on because I've never watched them but it's been for long enough I don't think it's just flash-in-the-pan bullshit like most gacha are (so I don't think Blue Archive is really going to be a meaningful representation. Gacha can, Girls Frontline was huge for a while and while now no one gives a shit about it, it'd say it was part of the face of the culture from 2016 - 2021. Never followed Kancolle so I can't comment about its longevity). If you mean an old character that still represents it, then yeah probably Reimu and Miku, the latter more likely. Vocaloid music is just shitty generic Japanese pop music with the singer being one of the instruments, so it's easy for normalfags to wrap their head around and identify with. >>50178754Otaku culture has been soulless and corporate since the late nineties, it's just that you were more fond of the I.P.s from the 2000s that was slapped onto everything. I don't say this as a mark against them, I hoard any Haruhi merchandise I can afford, but the only difference between then and now is that I don't really care about a whole lot of shows after 2012.
>>50178901She deserves the title the most because she is an actually talented artist and an indie
>>50178901I had no fucking clue who she was until the loli porn and I'd imagine that applies to most people who use /a/ and /jp/
The last consensus on the topic was probably when reimu, haruka and miku were the big 3. Mainly due to their omnipresence on niconico which was obviously highly tied to otaku's culture back then. Then kancolle came and many considered it an unofficial 4th. Understandably so, it consistently had like a 1000 more circles than touhou at comiket for a while. I don't know if people were too young or simply forgot but kancolle had a huge influence on the entire gacha industry that can still be seen today. It's what accustomed most people with the kusoge industry at the time and was in a way its big bang. It's also notable how everything suddenly became about anthropomorphical waifus. They're obviously not the first to do it but the concept wasn't nearly as widespread before kancolle and today we still have things like umamusume (which also feels like an idolmaster copy gameplay-wise but eh I'm not the fun police).Nowadays I think it'd be harder to come to a consensus for who's the face of otaku culture considering how mainstream it is. Even if something has a bigger reach than one of the aforementioned franchise it likely will still make up for a smaller percentage of otaku culture overall. Kind of like how a million subscribers channel on youtube is just a drop in the ocean and will not be recognized by most users. As each franchise gets bigger individually the otaku community becomes more divided. Anyways Haruhi is number 1 as far as I'm concerned.
>>50180458cockmonger, the proportion didn't change much if anything, there should be less people in otaku circles in general. and you are the first to gtfo
>>50180458>>50180143Women's existence are responsible for at least 2 of the OP charas.
>>50178347Anyone not saying Miku is deluded
