So you think you're an Otaku?

well take the exam!

http://www.otaken.jp/

I do warn you that A) it is entirely in Japanese (but it is not too hard) and B) and much more importantly the pass rate is 6.59 percent. Out of 1107 people only 73 made it!

However if you pass you get a certificate to show your friends (if applicable!) + you can sleep knowing your hobby is validated.

Well I just did the exam and it is bloody hard, the questions on comiket are surreal. I have been a couple of times but the level of knowledge is hardcore. I did OK on the otaku language, history of manga and games but I far from passed overall.

Here is the link to the home game section. (page 4)

http://www.otaken.jp/pdf/001.pdf

Even if you don't speak Japanese try putting all the consoles on the time line. (Not hard but you gotta be careful of the dates (I made a mistake in the NEC line))

Oh and while there check out the Comiket section - that is hardcore! Even passing the exam does not give you the ultimate reward, you also have to work in the industry in some fashion to be an "otaku elite"!

 

man thats some hard out stuff....how did you discover it??

willkells

 

A Japanese friend sent me the link a while ago. However I think it was also covered in Akibablog at some point.

There are a quite a number of this kind of Otaku exam, but this is the only one that is "official"!

 

My wife always jokes that I should take this test. She'd be surprised to know that I probably won't be able to pass it.

 

That test is so hardcore. It would probably take years of immersing in the otaku subculture... (thinking: I wanna take the test)

 

It doesn't work for me (I get one of those blank sites for selling domain names).

 

Yeah... same here... but try searching for otaku exam... in google.

OT: Made my own Hare Hare Yukai song otaku style. <- link is here

 

The post was originally made over a year ago...

However the information is in the web.archive.org site.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060411205704/http://www.otaken.jp/pdf/001.pdf

For the games thing.

 

Looks like a reviewer of sorts... now the only problem is reading it XD I also need to watch as much as I can including getting tons of otaku friends XD and learning how to otaku-speak

 

lol..ordering and guessing release dates of consoles is like boring history lessons back in elemtary school :lol:

 

rather get as much correct answers as I can even though they are boring XD

 

Is this a joke? You've gotta know where is everything located in Comiket, perfectly?

 

Wow... thread from the grave...

 

@andoba: Yep. from the looks of it.

 

I don't think I want to be an otaku.

 

Like a black friend of mine in elementary school that didn't want to be black.

 

:lol:

 

I don't want to be so much of an Otaku that I say silly stuff like Japanese gamers are more hardcore than other gamers, and that mediocre Japanese games are better than western equivalents just because they are Japanese.

I'm not singling anyone out here, but on another forum I DO know people who think like this...

 

They aren't otaku in this sense. No more than anyone else, anyway. In the original post of the thread, we all are, whether you wank to Marvel comic books, know exactly what Linux kernel is on your PDA and the differences between it and the last kernel, or pitch a tent when you think of 13 year old loli manga shit. You're thinking of a Japanophile or one of it's many other terms.

I happen to like J-games over western (pretty much across the board) but I think most of the Japanese ones these days suck massive balls.