This is my slideshow for my web page on my website, www.otakuuniverse.net. I explain what the word Otaku means in all of it's various meanings.

1. What is an Otaku?
And How Did the Word Otaku
Originate?

2. Otaku is a Japanese Word.
The English translation is “house” or “home.”
Otaku is how to say “house” or “home” in Japanese.

3. Otaku Means “Indoor Type” When Applied to a
Person.
A Japanese word for an indoor type of person does not exist.
They chose Otaku as the word for this type of person.
Don’t get an Otaku confused with a hikikomori.
An Otaku stays in his house to enjoy his hobby.
It makes no difference what the hobby is.

4. Otaku is the formal way to say “you” in Japanese.
Haruhiko Mikimoto and Shoji Kawamori spoke this to fans.
They worked on the anime Super Dimension Macross.
They were the character designer and mech designer.
Macross fans continued using Otaku to say “you.”
This trend caught on with all anime fans over time.
This was not the birth of the Otaku community.

5. Otaku was turned into a negative word on July
23, 1989.
Serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki was caught and arrested.
He was a big fan of anime and anime merchandise.
This made him become known as the Otaku Killer.
This resulted in the storm of hatred against anime fans.
This made people take offense to being called an Otaku.
It never got cleaned up but has softened over the years.

6. Otaku means something completely different in
America.
The American meaning is “a person who likes anime.”
It’s the highest compliment for a person who likes anime.
Americans interpreted this meaning from Otaku no Video.
They couldn’t change it after learning the real meaning.
It wouldn’t fit into the English language any other way.
There’s nothing negative about the American Otaku community.

7. Being an American Otaku isn’t all peaches and
cream.
The mainstream media treats us like the gun community.
They couldn’t find anything negative since it doesn’t exist.
So they went and made up a lie from out of thin air.
They’re telling people that anime and manga is child porn.
They’ve been trying various ways to get anime banned.
I will fight anything and everything they come up with.