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NEWS: Mainstream Moe Raises Artist's Ire

If I have to close myself off from the world to consider myself a true fan, I'm glad I'm not really an Otaku.

Perhaps it's because 'Train Man' (the story of an otaku who wins the heart of a pretty woman) was such a hit, but recently I've seen all these dorky guys walking around in thick glasses and checkered shirts and it pains my heart to think that they may be hoping to meet some pretty girl who's going to fall in love with them. Sorry guys, the chances of that happening are zero,

There's a tendency in the otaku market to avoid producing contents that are going to sell in terms of millions or tens of millions. Instead, they find a semi-hit then bring out figurines, DVD box sets, premium editions and all sorts of related materials that are drastically over-wrapped and sell to the same people who bought the original product in the first place," the manga artist says. "So-called otaku are caught up in this money making cycle and all they're doing is spending their hard-earned yen (which often comes from their parents in a lot of cases). And, what's really sad, is that loads of these gullible suckers don't even realize that they're being taken for a ride.

Maybe not all 'Moe' fans are thinking in a sexual way...but a heck of a lot of them ARE.

I'm a fully-fledged otaku. I used to shut myself away from the world. A real otaku would never go out and about in the world because they wouldn't believe anything good could happen to them if they did so, anyway. They all believe the world is out to get them, Real otaku should go back and shut yourselves off from the world again. The true value of being a real otaku lay in the belief that nobody else understands you.

Sakamoto wrote:

There's a tendency in the otaku market to avoid producing contents that are going to sell in terms of millions or tens of millions. Instead, they find a semi-hit then bring out figurines, DVD box sets, premium editions and all sorts of related materials that are drastically over-wrapped and sell to the same people who bought the original product in the first place," the manga artist says. "So-called otaku are caught up in this money making cycle and all they're doing is spending their hard-earned yen (which often comes from their parents in a lot of cases). And, what's really sad, is that loads of these gullible suckers don't even realize that they're being taken for a ride.

Now this is totally right on.

I have a new hero.

MorwenLaicoriel wrote:

Maybe not all 'Moe' fans are thinking in a sexual way...but a heck of a lot of them ARE.

That's true, myself included. Moe and sexual desires are completely different though. People group them together all the time, which is where the problem comes. Either attempt to understand something before judging it, and if you can't understand it, don't comment on it at all. Otherwise it just makes you look like an idiot.

さかもと　未明（さかもと　みめい、1965年10月21日 - ）は、漫画家、作家。

神奈川県出身。1984年神奈川県立厚木高等学校、1988年高学歴の玉川大学文学部英文学科卒業。OL（商社）を経て1989年に漫画家としてデビュー、主にポルノレディースコミック誌に連載し、一躍人気漫画家になる。2000年には「文学界」にて作家デビュー。

保守系メディアに多く登場するほか、雑誌やマスメディアでの発言では、男性にいわゆる「男らしさ」を強く求め、ジェンダーフリーを批判したり、徴兵制復活を提言したり、封建的家父長制を推進する、男性への独身税を提案するなどの言動が目立っているため、一般的には保守派であると思われている。

Your laughing circle dude is fascinating.

These moe otaku that she describes are just that: pedophiles. And what's worse is the fact that many of these people are now acting out in real life their twisted fantasies. These kinds of people should just be locked up right away.

...whether Sakamoto-san is actually on to something or just trying to make noise to get attention for the single manga work that she has listen in the Encyclopedia...