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!
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14 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #69 - Otaku Hunting”
JapanesePod101.com says:
September 4th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
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!
Chris (KC8UFV) says:
September 14th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Sugoi!
It seems like todays lesson would be a scene straight from “Revenge of the Nerds” 
Sindy says:
September 15th, 2007 at 12:31 am
JP101 crew/listeners! 
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.
I also would like to go to Akihabara Anime/Manga when I go to Japan in the near future. 
S_R_C
scnnrc says:
September 16th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
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 
(DenshaOtoko). Does anyone know why?
maxiewawa says:
September 16th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
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!
kitty-chan says:
September 17th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
This was a darn funny conversation!!! 
Did the otaku kill the thugs? Or did he just get the crickets?
Kitty-chan
Jason says:
September 17th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
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.
maxiewawa says:
September 27th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
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/ .
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Category: Intermediate Lessons |
Grammar: no da, to iu, tte, yatsu | Function: starting a fight | Topic: fighting, Japanese subculture, otaku、hunting | Politeness Level: Informal, rude
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