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Animekid08.
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Personaly, i don't know what an otaku is. Please tell me.
Also, What is with the way they bathe in FLCL? They sit on a stool and hose themselves off. I don't really get it. Please help me! -Animekid08 |
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abunai
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The word is Japanese, and is usually used in Japanese as a sort of synonym for "geek loser with one or more obsessive interests". There are anime-otaku and train-otaku and stamp collecting-otaku, and so on. Some time ago, American anime fans decided to appropriate the term to mean "anime fanboy/fangirl". In America, the term carries much less negative connotations than in Japan. Even so, not every anime fan likes to be called otaku. I don't, for instance.
Japanese baths are for soaking in. They are also often communal baths. Therefore, it is a crude and almost disgusting thing to get in a bath without cleaning your body first. So you clean yourself, then you get in the bath and soak. Japanese bath temperatures are also generally warmer than Western bath temperatures. Think of it as a liquid sauna that you sit in, rather than a bath. - abunai |
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dormcat
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Use Google or ANN's Lexi...con? Are? Not added yet?
It would be more relaxing if you can sit while taking a shower, wouldn't it? 
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PantsGoblin
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Then there's the Japanese bathes I went into (hotels). The same as American bathes except they always have an annoying step placed right before you get in so you'll bump your head on the ceiling cause the rooms are so small. They also have those crazy hoses so you can easily wash in hard to reach places . And sometimes they have the soap/shampoo/conditioner inside the shower vending machine style. And don't press the button on the toilet that has a picture of water spraying... it'll freak you out.
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abunai
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Or so you can wash before getting in, as you were supposed to.
Ah, another American unfamiliar with the concept of the bidet... - abunai |
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Zalis116
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And to play Captain Obvious here, it's not just in FLCL that they bathe like this--since it's a Japanese cultural thing, you'll see it in many, many anime. . .in fact, if I had a dollar for every time I've heard the line, "I'll scrub your back for you" or some variant thereof. . .well, you get the idea. Though there are many strange things in FLCL, the bathing method is not one of them. |
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PantsGoblin
Subscriber Encyclopedia Editor Posts: 2969 Location: L.A. |
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I'm talking about the little one room bathrooms, there wasn't enough room for bathing before getting in. Anyway even if I did, because of the little step they put in, the water would have leaked out onto the carpet. I don't think they'd really appretiate that. |
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shirokiryuu
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Reminds of the signs at teh YMCA saying "please take a shower before entering in the pool" but no one actually does that... |
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Abarenbo Shogun
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku |
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abunai
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Ew. Just... Ew. - abunai |
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remember love
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No surprise....I don't think anyone here in America would ever do that. (At least noone I know, and that's quite a bit of people.) |
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Efan
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I think PantsGoblin ment the people in america, i doubt Japanese people would not shower first considering they have to wash themselves before they take a bath. |
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remember love
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Well, the in America statement was for people who also live outside of Japan and America...I didn't want anyone thinking that everyone but Japan doesn't bathe before hand. (So basically didn't want to offend anyone.) |
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Efan
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I didn't mean that i thought you were offending anyone, just that you took his post out of context. |
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daxomni
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I've only been to one ryoken, but it had a large communal shower area with the plastic stools for you to sit on while you washed up. Off in a side room there was a very large and very hot bath tub. I take what I consider to be very hot showers at home but I could barely stand this tub's water and I looked like a boiled lobster when I got out.
Nobody ever offered to scrub my back, so that might just be an anime thing.
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