![]() It was soon banned in 1979 by then president Ferdinand Marcos, four episodes before the end of the series, along with the other anime series airing at the time, supposedly for its violence and warlike themes. Voltes V soon became very popular between children all around the Philippines which led to the sudden popularity of other anime series related to the Super Robot genre in the Philippines. It was the first exposure of Filipinos to Japanese animation. In the Philippines, GMA-7 began airing Voltes V in 1978. Its growth characterized by waves that Gilles Poitras as well as Bruce Lewis and Cathy Sterling name as specific "generations", often instigated by a singular work. According to Japanophile Fred Patten, the very first fan club devoted to Japanese animation was the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, which began in Los Angeles in 1977. The fan community in the English-speaking world began in the 1970s and steadily grew. In Japan, anime and manga are referred to collectively as the content industry: anime, video games, manga, and other related merchandise are different types of media focused around the same content. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īnime and manga fandom traces back to at least the 1970s when fans of the series Space Battleship Yamato banded together to get it back on the air after it stopped airing on Japanese television. However, older generation otaku, like Otaking (King of Otakus) Toshio Okada, in his book Otaku Wa Sude Ni Shindeiru ( オタクはすでに死んでいる) said the newer generation of self-proclaimed otakus are not real otakus, as they lack the passion and research sense into a particular sub-culture subject and are only common fans which only overspent in buying products. However, the term started to be used by anime and manga fans themselves again starting in the 2000s, in a more general and positive way, and today it is often used by those outside of the fandom to refer to fans of anime or manga. Otaku can be seen as being similar to the English terms geek or nerd. After its widespread usage by Japanese residents, however, it became pejorative and increasingly offensive in the 1990s, implying that a person is socially inept. Animators like Haruhiko Mikimoto and Shōji Kawamori used the term among themselves as an honorific second-person pronoun since the late 1970s. It appears to have been coined by the humorist and essayist Akio Nakamori in his 1983 series An Investigation of "Otaku" ( 『おたく』の研究, "Otaku" no Kenkyū), printed in the lolicon magazine Manga Burikko. ![]() In the anime Macross, first aired in 1982, the term was used by Lynn Minmay as an honorific term. The modern slang form, which is distinguished from the older usage by being written only in hiragana ( おたく) or katakana ( オタク or ヲタク), or rarely in rōmaji, appeared in the 1980s. In its original context, the term otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another's house or family ( お宅, otaku), which is also used as an honorific second-person pronoun. ![]() Otaku is a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests, including anime or manga. ![]()
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