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September 14th, 2007 | help Need help?

Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! With many manga and anime fanatics going to Akihabara to spend lots of money, it didn’t take long for some ne’er-do-wells to start attacking and robbing otaku in the alleyways. In today’s dialog, a gang of chinpira (thugs) try mess with our guy, but they’re in for a big surprise. Let’s see if they learn a lesson! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

Voice Actors: Take, Yoshikai, and the little voice inside Take's head | Hosts:
Category: Intermediate Lessons |
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This entry was posted on Friday, September 14th, 2007 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Intermediate Lessons. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

14 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #69 - Otaku Hunting”

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

September might as well be called “National Otaku Month,” all our recent Beginner Season 2 episodes have been dealing with various aspects of ヲタク culture. And we definitely didn’t want to neglect the advanced listeners! So we thought we’d share our special take on the deplorable phenomenon of ヲタク狩り for the Intermediate series! Hope you enjoyed it!

avatar Chris (KC8UFV) says:

Sugoi!
It seems like todays lesson would be a scene straight from “Revenge of the Nerds” :mrgreen:

avatar Sindy says:

JP101 crew/listeners! :wink:

Today’s lesson was great since I’m a Otaku too. I also remember in my early young ages (Puberty In Mexico City) I took some Manga that wasn’t mine and the owner never notice but some other otuku’s rubber me has welll too so it was fair. :mrgreen:

I also would like to go to Akihabara Anime/Manga when I go to Japan in the near future. :cool: :wink: S_R_C

avatar Neil says:

会話の後の話は一番価値がある者です.

avatar Bob1 says:

Death Wish: オタク版? (otaku edition)

avatar scnnrc says:

I know that OTAKU should be written as お宅 or in katakana オタク, but sometimes I’ve found it written as ヲタク or just ヲタ as in 電車男 :nihon:  (DenshaOtoko). Does anyone know why?

avatar maxiewawa says:

ヲタク is the katakana version of をたく, a spelling that is mentioned (in Japanese) in the podcast. I guess ヲタ is an abbreviation of that. I”m not sure about the last one!

avatar scnnrc says:

有難う maxiewawaさん

avatar キャロロ says:

Lol.オタクレッスンは楽しなですねえ! :razz:

avatar kitty-chan says:

This was a darn funny conversation!!! :dogeza: :dogeza: :dogeza:
Did the otaku kill the thugs? Or did he just get the crickets? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Kitty-chan

avatar Jason says:

I guess ヲタ is an abbreviation of that.

Yes.

avatar Jason says:

Well, I thought it was, but wikipedia says different:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wota

However, ヲタク is simply another spelling of オタク or お宅.

avatar maxiewawa says:

Today’s “Miki’s Blog” goes into more detail about 狩り and its many uses. Have a look here http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/26/audio-blog-55-i-like-hunting/ .

avatar Magito says:

僕は日本語ヲアク!

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