User blog comment:Cheese Lord/What Is So Damn Special About Anime?/@comment-2154333-20120131115712

Cleric is right. An otaku is someone thoroughly obsessed with something, whatever it may be. It has a very different connotation in America where we immediately think of someone who acts the part of an idiot spouting Japanese non-sense mixed with English, but if you go to Japan there are different "types" of otakus, such as people obsessed with computers and not necessarily anime and the like. It's really really rude to call someone like that in Japan.