Matrixshino's World of WTF

...the last guy..scary

The girl seemed kinda more sane for me, or maybe because she's a cosplayer

speaking the japanese language without the accent or rather has not much of any local dialects gives me goosebumps.. anyway she did a great job on pronouncing the words clearly

p.s. i wish i can correct the first guy saying that anime has or very much like the real world. i say it's not. it's just a "slice-of-life"

p.p.s. the interview was so plain. yeah i agree it's like stereotyping the "otakus" of the Philippines. it's like they are saying on national TV that "otakus" are running away from reality. the one to blame is the segment researcher!! hahahaha!! XD

p.p.p.s. the last guy was kind of over-reacting.........??

Question: Are local TV stations "MAD" at us anime-fanatics? Para kasing nakikita ko sa kanila (their way of expressing and showing things like these), pinapatay nila ang mga katulad natin eh. Are our kind like parasites to them so it'll subjected to extermination to society?

I dunno... go figure out. -_-;;

@otaku#1 NAGAGAYA NYA DAW?! "EXACTLY"? ano kamo?

@otaku#2 the interview... was just somethignt that when normal people watches this segment theyd go laughing at the subject..they shud ask more "INTERESTING" stuff instead of how different otaku's are on the typical filipino

@otaku#3 ..... thats nto over reacting.,... i can sense that #3 isnt a real-lif eotaku.. it's an actor... tryign to be like one.

what otakus? those are lesser weeaboos

watdahell!!!??? sorry for the reaction but i watched the segment parang nailang akong panoorin. parang ako ung napapahiya.

in all honesty, the guests were ok, but the show did not give out the right questions. either that or they did a very lame editing job. obviously they deleted the vital parts that the guests might've answered. i am disappointed in this show. and proud of the guests although parang pinahiya sila ng show. ang kinalabasan tuloy ay isang shallow at lame na interview segment of otakus.

PS: and i didn't like what the host is doing with the "fake" japanese accent... hindi nakakatuwa. it was very insulting and discriminating. i hate it when they do that.

I watched the video

Here's my thoughts on it:

http://ultimatecoordinator7.multiply.com/journal/item/16/Proud_To_Be_An_Otaku

isnt kat is otakunekogirl???

wen i was at coskada???

I was there when the interview was done. Sa labas lang kami ng area. I immediately noticed na OP yung hosts sa pinag-uusapan namin tungkol sa anime. <> I thought GMA would say about us otakus. They presented us like we a group of people who live only in anime. Mas ok pa nga kasama ang otaku kesa sa isang normal person na puro sosyalan ang alam.

*personal opinion* ; please don't sue for the writer have no money to defend herself

wow! kat is so cute! hehehe! im lucky i got a pic of us! ^__^

Okay, at first I was speechless. And at the end, I facepalmed.

I think that segment not even covered most of the bases on being an otaku. I think I saw that, the important and the part that will justify the otaku has been cut.

Media...tsk tsk tsk.

wut the FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF~
UGH~ ><;;

stupid media...

IMHO, this sucks and i feel insulted...

Otaku are useless and pathetic beings. Don't be stupid and use that retarded term to celebrate your hobby!

what troll? he's just stating the facts.

You guys obviously aren't doing your research.

you'll never see or hear the word "otaku" from animu or manga dialouges , except in sarcasm and insults

OH RLY?

but that's not how us, Filipino otakus, define the term Otaku...

and really, if the researchers really did their research, they would know the difference between a japanese otaku and a Filipino Otaku...

and besides, Ka-Blog caters on Filipino youth so why the hell would they focus on the japanese side of things... they should focus on how us, Filipino otakus, define it and give a new meaning to it....gets?

THIS IS MADNESS!!

of course I know that, that's why I said you aren't doing your research.

Westernization gave the word a whole new meaning, from insult to a badge of honor. And Philippines is a westernized country

Sure the segment has this awful and unclear way of defining that term but you guys aren't also seeing both sides of that "term", just RAGING on how you feel insulted without knowing that the word was actually equivalent to an insult.

kuya shino, tingin ko hindi;

i think they just cannot see things the way we see them.

i think the same logic applies to the corrupted leaders, we cannot see why is it necessary for them to corrupt the money of our country even if they're already filthy stinkin rich :))

*my randomness again*

dont bring too much drama :)

well said :P

in defense of mjsnoozer and siloportem no that wasn't a troll.

Otaku is used to describe fans of any particular interest, common usage of which would be anime otaku in our case, but in Japan the word otaku has a negative connotation due to how they are viewed in society. Most otaku are viewed as people with serious mental illnesses and can have a tendency to murder. This has been a common stereotype of otaku in Japan due to certain incidents.

o__o i hope i made that clear if ever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku will that help?

err yea so please don't fight ><

dagdag lang ng reference panuorin niyo rin Akhabara@deep for more references .-.

the problem here is they didn't consider japanese culture from our culture. it's situations like these that the geeks should inherit the world.
buti na lang sa media rin ako. sasakalin ko mga gumagawa at nageedit ng mga ganitong segment. oh the bigotry!

No sane persone would say that :)

Cartoons are everywhere. In the tabloid, newspaper, magazine, even in the ads. :lol:

There are no age limitations in a hobby. What we should limit is how we act like preschoolers here. Look at you. You're just enraged here because a group of people were having fun without you. And now that this group is mad at something, you took the opportunity to throw words at them.

(I;m just being random again LOL)

Densha Otoko and Akihabara@DEEP, I saw them both years ago.
oh sure, references references. what can FICTIONAL stories do as references?

Ever heard of Tsutomu Miyazaki, Ryou Katsuki and Takanori Hoshijima? of course not, since you're not doing your research.

These guys are OTAKU, and they murdered little girls and women using what they loved (Animu and Mangoes) as references.

sure, they're all adults. there's also a girl who nearly killed her mom just by attempting to scrap her mangoes. and a hikkikomori teener killed his father just attempting to help him.

where's your OTAKU now?

LOLWHUT?

waaa. ang sama nmn. well im proud to be an otaku at wala ng silang pakialam dun. XD

hey hey if their MAD AT US just tell them "what the hell is their problem are we doing something bad" we all just do is collect anime stuff watch anime and dress up us our fave anime character and show up our creativity which is good to the community because we're no causing any trouble or what's so ever in fact we're lessening it right. WE HAVE OUR OWN RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's also just like how the word "salvage" was given a whole new meaning in the Philippines. "Salvage", according to the rest of the world (and the dictionary), means to save, rescue, etc. but look at how we Filipinos use the term. I'm not saying that it's perfectly fine to bastardize terms left and right, but at the same time, terms changing due to cultural differences or such must be acknowledged. :)

LOL. ksama ako jan nung ngshoot.

nagulat ako pgdating namen sa last venue ng shoot nung nakita namen ung guy napatingin na lng kme ni Kat sa isat isa. and then LOL.

XD

The intro is annoying... The host is annoying... This is why cosplay should remain underground... We cosplayers are just being treated as objects of ridicule by fools who don't understand our ways...

The way they talk reminds me of the way some idiots from my past made fun of me for liking anime...

Damn the media... >__>

@niceboat
oh yes, there are lot of psychos not interested in animu, but you're losing the point here, OTAKU = OBSESSIVE, COMPULSIVE and not particularly into anime or any weeaboo stuff.

and these traits can be found in mass murderers and psychopaths. it's just said otakus have a higher tendency to become one, and a lot of cases proves it.

@vhaeraun
I give you points for reading WIKIPEDIA, but you need to research more. Guinea Pigs has episodes based from a manga and was directed by a mangaka. And out of the 5000+ videos found in Tsutomu Miyazaki's apartment, 95% of those are anime videos.

I liked your comparison. KIDS HERE USES WORDS WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING ITS TRUE MEANING.

and yeah, blame WESTERNIZATION

@raiyachan
:facepalm:
srsly, before using another term, DO SOME RESEARCH IDIOT.
moe's definition is entirely in another realm from otaku's definition

lolz...natawa lang ako....

BANSAI!!BANSAI!!BANSAI!!!

What is OTAKU?....... See Wikipedia

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

di ko lang magets kung bakit naging ganito ang kinalabasan nitong blog post na to.

ang suma total lang ng saloobin ng ma tao dito sa post na ito eh naging hindi makatarungan ang kinalabasan ng pag-eedit ng interview. At syempre, naging pangit na naman ang imahe ng mga "otaku" na pinoy.Pero mukhang atang naging palitan lang ng mga mapanakit na salita ang dapat sanay paglalabas lamang ng saloobin sa napanoon na 5 minutong parte ng isang programang pinapatakbo ng ratings. PERO. ano nga ba ang ibig sabihin ng otaku dito sa ating bansa na pugad ng mga mangagaya? Pareho ba ang kahulugan nito dito sa atin tulad ng sa pinangalingan nitong banyagang bansa?

Nakakatuwa yung mga ibang reaksyon na nabasa ko. May mga nagalit at may mga dumepensa sa mga otaku. pero meron ding mga nagsabi ng mga salitang di dapat masabi. Alam naman natin na ang pinakamabilis na paraan para mangimpluwensya ng tao eh sa pamamagitan ng mass media. Sa pamamagitan ng telebisyon. At nakakalungkot isipin na pati ang mga inaasahang "tagapamahayag ng katotohanan" ay nasilaw na sa pera at impluwensya. Ang batayan na ng isang magandang palabas ay di na sa nilalaman nito kundi sa ganda ng produksyon, sa dami ng sponsors at sa RATINGS. Di na dahil sa kredibilidad ng impormasyong kelangan ibahagi.

Bago pa ako maligaw eh eto lang masasabi ko. ang dalawang higanteng estasyon na namumuno na sa ating bansa dahil sa daming naiimpluwensyahang mga tao na makipagtayan sa kanilang mga kapitbahay dahil lang sa debate na kung ano ang mas magandang telenobela pagpatak ng alas otcho ng gabi eh hindi na nakakapagbibigay katarungan sa kanilang mga palabas. Lalo na sa larangan ng anime. Ang pagtatagalize ng anime at ang paghohost nila ng mga cons ang ebidensya. At naging panggatong lang sa apoy etong ginawa nilang segment. Pero mas nakakatuwa parin yung mga batang naguumpukan dito sa post na to kung ano nga ba ang ibig sabihin ng otaku.

Simple lang naman ang sagot. Mapa-insulto man to sa iba o isang name plate sa nakakarami, ang pagiging otaku ay isang parte ng buhay ng isang tao na tumatangkilik sa anime sa kabuoan. Mula sa simpleng pagbabasa at panonood ng anime hangang sa pagkolekta ng mga laruan at pag-cocosplay. Isa lang itong pagpapahayag sa sarili at hindi dapat masamain at maging buntunan ng diskriminasyon. Nagkataon lang na isa tayong bansa na puno ng mga mapagpangap na tao para lamang mapabilang sa isang grupo at magkaroon ng lakas ng loob at naimpluwensyahan na ng mga kano. Kaya sa tingin ng iba eh nagbago na ang kahulugan ng salitang "otaku".

@schizophrenicheroine
attempt at being "matalinhaga" FAILED. I suggest you change your avatar to "I FAIL"

Let me point some stuff:
2nd and 3rd paragraphs, everyone OBVIOUSLY knows this, no need to repeat and completely unneeded. no need to elaborate the Obvious, Captain Obvious.

3rd paragraph, you are actually leaving the point there 'bud. you're not even making anymore sense here. The kids here doesn't even know "word's" backstory, therefore they are raging at the segment and not proving points. JUST RAGING.

Last paragraph, I can see that you just stitched words that came from other comments and converted it to Filipino, and how many times do I have to drill into people that being otaku is not limited to anime? changing otaku's meaning is not limited to other's viewpoint, the meaning already CHANGED.

@niceboat
I must admit, I missed some spots there. though that doesn't change the fact he's obsessed with little girls.

I just remembered, I added those convict examples not to elaborate otaku's meaning but to disprove FICTION as references

Haha... Nakakatuwa naman ung palabas. Masyadong mababaw ung pagkaka-define nila ng Japanese word na "otaku". Sa Japan kasi, ginagamit lang nila ung term pag extreme na talaga.

Isa pa - why use the word "otaku" when you can just say "nerd" or "geek" sa Ingles? Para mas astig pakinggan? Ay sus, parehas lang yan ng meaning eh.

okay... -_^

d naman lahat na binabase ko sa wikipedia..... tska wala ako account sa wikipedia :P at wag mo naman seryosohin yung sinasabi ko.....


sa ngayon WALA MUNA AKO PAKEALAM d2. Palalagpasin ko muna to..... nangyari n yan wala n tayo magagawa....

That was painful to watch. Otaku are among the most active bloggers in the Philippines. In fact, they are among the pioneers of the Philippine blogosphere. They were talking about anime and gaming online long before doing anything online was “cool”.

Ka-Blog insults the pioneers of their very raison d’etre. That just goes to show how much they really know about blogging.

Hell, they don't even know the difference between a file name and a domain name. How dare they presume to tell kids what's cool in the blogosphere?

*laughs*

obviously I'm trying to avoid using the english language because we are Filipinos and we should use our language in any way possible. And yeah, it seems that you're missing my point as well.

But yes, i admit that i missed some points and i kinda missed your point. But you sir don't get it. The point is that the word OTAKU got misunderstood. and thanks to that segment, it became worse. And that's the reason why people who commented in this blog post RAGED. And thus, the meaning of the word changed yet again.

Please stop trollin' you weaboo. GTFO.

It's like the video ridicules OTAKU (filipino definition) than making the viewers understand more about them

You can present otaku to a mainstream audience without ridiculing them. Just look at how Inquirer interviewed Alodia.

Ka-Blog is just too lazy to go beyond shallow racial caricature.

they're like just playing us off...

good idea and just think they're jealous to us right tee hee hee laughter is the best answer to it

Those people at GMA really need to be lynched. Anyone got Molotovs, knives(switchblades preferred, madaling itago), and rope?

i think this is getting out of hand (omg no wai). i just think the station used the word "otaku" just because it's "curious," catches attention, and to them it represents everything anime or probably just came out of the producer's/ writer's mouth by accident. unfortunately, they're linear thinkers and probably thought of the "what is unusual (in this case exaggerated) SELLS" philosophy. unfortunately the role of this industry in general is to unlearn your philo 101/ theo 101 lessons, forget your manners, everything nice, and politically correct. it's kill or be killed in media. this is why we only see bad news and honest people in nightly news because it's UNUSUAL. this just vindicates my thought.

we know who we are. let us not lose ourselves to what media say. sabi nga sa eheads song "do your own thing. stick with what you are."

oits tama na away!

Hehe, my thoughts exactly. Anyways, you're right. Tama na away at CHUMANE na lang tayong lahat para everybody, mas happy. ^_^

@mjsnoozer & ridershinden:
Dude, you both got some serious problems man. I've just posted the video and I have no opinions about it. Cut-out...


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@gougetsu

haha, now adding "respect" to your meaningless blabber. I wasn't supposed to comment against your so called "opinions" until you started that useless post.

Respect you say? why do I need to respect meaningless blabber? If you want respect, think before typing.

@shize29

oh really? we don't need the comment above my previous comment? this just proves your naivety. Unfortunately, twasdraco's comment has more substance than all of your, gougetsu's, and schizophrenicheroine's comments combined

@matrixshino

I would say that's a good call but, it looks like running away.

In a way, siloportem, mjsnoozer is right and they're just stating facts. They just worded it rudely and appeared arrogant with statements/words that doesn't really need to be said, no offense to the two :P , which in turn caused more hostility

"Otaku are useless and pathetic beings. Don't be stupid and use that retarded term to celebrate your hobby!"

Could've been worded differently like "Don't call yourselves, anime lovers in general, "OTAKU" because OTAKUs are people with extreme obssessions and sometimes lead to unnecessary deaths and most of the japanese population is hostile against them"

I think the flamebaiting started from there.

Although mas learned nga kayo, please dont be too full of yourselves and be patient sa mga "nasa baba sa inyo"

And please excercise nyo ung critical reading skills nyo. We're supposed to be discussing ideas and opinions here, not really "hitting on someone" or "pinapatamaan tayo otaku(filipino definition) in general" . And yes, it became to the latter because you think they're trolling!

@mjsnoozer


Im reading your posts (and only your posts) starting with this one, and all the way down. I have a simple reaction:

Do you know what the word "Opinion" mean?

One of the people (actually at the top of the list) of my Hate list is people who forces people that they are right. People who boasts over something that no need to be boasted of. I would have to agree that you have points in your "comments", and they are true. The way you are expressing it is the thing.

By the way you are speaking, you clearly trying to make an impression of you possess the most complex logical and analytical structure a living organism could have.

Kanya kanya tayo ng opinion. Kanya kanya tayo ng mga pananaw. Wag mong ipangalandakan at ingudngod sa pagmumukha ng mga taong nag lagay ng komento dito na ang mga pahayag mo at pananaw sa isyu ang tama. Base sa mga posts dito, walang tao ang nagsabi na mali ka, kaya hindi mo na kailngang depensahan ang sarili mo....

Isa na yan sa mga dahilan kaya pinili kong wag nang mag bigay ng komento sa video na ito. We can't blame the producers, we can't blame the show directors, we even can't blame the writers (or whoever the made that thing during the first minutes of the segment, which I really dont like) Natural sa atin ang mag react, dahil tayo (or at least karamihan ng mga taong nag post dito) ang mas nakakaintindi sa "obsession" na ito. Hindi natin sila masisisi....

Wala namang nagsasabing mali ka sa lahat ng ipinunto mo. wala ring nagsasabi dito na walang kwenta ang mga sinasabi mo. It's not what you say, but how you say it, Wala namang umaaway sayo, actually, nakikipag away ka lang sa sarili mo eh. OO ALAM NAMIN MATALINO KA NA. OO ALAM NAMIN NA TAMA KA NA. PERO HINDI IBIG SABIHIN NA KULANG NA LANG AY UMAKYAT KA SA ISANG BUILDING NA MAY DALA KANG MICROPHONE AT ISIGAW SA LAHAT NA TAMA KA AT MALI KAMI, AT IKAW LANG ANG TAMANG TAO NA NABUBUHAY SA IBABAW NG LUPA.

Yan ang problema sa inyong mga "trolls", ginagamit nyo ang Internet para ilabas ang baho ng mga ugali nyo ng hindi nakikilala. Pang aabuso yan tol.

We are all entitled to give our views. But dont make it in a way that most of us woud'nt like. Respect is earned, and it's by giving respect.

bakit parang ang iinit na ng tao dito...maligo nga kayo ng malamigan kayo... relax lang mga pipol maxado kayo mga nag iinit eh... n,n

@shino yaan mo na sila... sila na bida n,n hehehhehe sila naman mukang maraming alam eh ... kaya yaan na natin sila hahahhaa n,n

oo nga jay. wag mo nang burahin tong post mo. hehe

Want to know what 'otaku' means aside from the stereotypical bum, weird, obsessive-something-like that?

So far, I know that it can either mean 'a house' or an honorific word that can replace the ''anata' or 'you' in Japanese.

And hell, why are some of you even watch the vid? People are not that stupid. They will eventually realize that they can get more from the internet than what the local media show us. Then maybe, just maybe, if they have the time, they will know that the 'otaku' word is NOT what the media usually shows us.

Quote from "Goodbye Mr. Despair":

"Off air battles are more intense than on air battles".

Seeing the vid, and otakunekogirl's reaction, its obvious that its true (even though it is part sarcasm).

@mjsnoozer
None sense talaga ang first post ko so bakit mo sineryoso yung sinabi ko? & also while im reading your post medyo d mo n nirespeto yung mga opinion o statement ng iba tao so pinaalala ko na magbigay RESPETO.... pero may tanong ako sayo....... Marunong ka bang RUMESPETO ng ibang tao?

Im starting to get irritated but i have to be cool.... so..... ill just ignore for now.... Dahil WALA AKO PAKEALAM....

@shino
Shino, na sayo ang desisyon kung i-ddelete mo ito o hnd...

uulitin ko ulit kahapon.... Tama n yan away n yan at CHUMANE NA LNG TAYO :D TAPOS!

Magpakasaya n lng tayo *sayaw*

THAT'S MAINSTREAM MEDIA FOR YOU.

uhmm... sorry to add a post if you're going to delete this post na. pero, hindi kaya parang gusto nila tayong patayin sa ginawa nila? yan talaga ang hirap ng misinformation! or subliminal information! sus!

Jason, if you need to delete this entry, go ahead.. I'll just keep a copy of this thread for you and the others to laugh on in the distant future. XD

Hmm pardon the sudden intrusion from a nobody ah, but tanong ko lang sana (dunno if anyone asked this earlier ah) since when and how was the term "otaku" used here in the philippines anyway? did anybody "coin" the term for us filipinos, that its definition was bent to how "the otakus" see it today?

Coz its definition in Japan particularly isn't that positive, so, when and how did it happen that anime/manga/etc fans in our country were labeled with "such a word"? Maybe from there we can trace whether the segment researcher really did a lot of researching; or if the editors were fags trying to show just what THEY wanted to be conveyed, or simply they didn't understand really what they were talking about, or if it's "the otakus" who have a problem.

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though i know my opinion isn't even needed, but just in case someone tries to diss something out - well, i never called or even thought myself an "otaku" once in my life. a fan, yes, and an ENTHUSIAST more, but since i didn't really even know what that word meant, i preferred not to use it- most especially because it's a japanese word and term and i believe it shouldn't be applied to me.

@alizarine

I don't know when or how did it happen, but its true that the connotation of 'otaku' is someone who has unusual amount of interest in anime/manga/games. It just that some of those who has such interests (or should I say, become obsessed) happens to be people who either turn away from society (seclusion or 'hikkikomori'), turned away from reality (claim to marry 2d characters or bring 2d to reality), or just became too annoying. Thus, the term 'otaku' became derrogative even in Japan.

Also, 'otaku' isn't limited to anime/manga/games. It could be just anything people are 'very fond of' or obsessed with. One example is that you can call Vilmanians 'Vilma-otaku', those who likes war related stuff 'sensou-otaku' (sensou is war or anything similar in Japanese), or who likes computer stuff 'PC-otaku'.

Of course, the point of most people here is not really how 'otaku' is defined, but how the media think or believe 'otaku' should be in the viewers' eyes.

SHITSTORM AHOY!

Hmmm... first of all this is one of the reasons why I try to avoid local TV shows since their factual sources seem fictional and far-fetched.
In a way though, the video was a double-edged sword. It has made the public aware that otaku exist. Now about this whole mess. Isn't it right that an otaku's basic principle is being a geek? Something you are obsessed, in love and would spend countless time, money and attention for something?

Deleting this entry will just send out the wrong signal. What's done is done, all thats left to do is to move along.

Now I bet GMA7 is "TROLLING" this post out, hehe... xD

I suddenly remember Alodia drawing bigger crowds than Marian Rivera at ToyCon. TV no longer holds a monopoly on cool. =D

@ronvince

thanks for the effort to answer, well at least it gave a definition that was cleared of prejudice or something. XD

@ mikeabundo

Hello there.
Oh, time and again. Why serve the name of Alodia G. in a silver tray once more? I hope this does not offend you, but your seemingly endless streams of praises for the lady gives her an image more of a goddess than human. Do you serve as the highest of her High Priests? Because honestly, your fandom of the girl makes me think that (based on the definitions presented by the people here) "Alodia-otaku" might as well describe you. Admiration is one thing, but your actions tell more O_O and I wonder why she wasn't the one interviewed as an "otaku" for the Ka-Blog segment? (No offense to Alodia fans out there. I am really just wondering.)

@ topic

Philippine mass media... well, I don't know how to put it, but something really is wrong with it. The major TV network's idea of "truth well told" "truth shall prevail" and "walang kinikilingan...etc" makes one raise the question of what truth really means- well at least for each matter discussed, like what the segment was talking about. "Otaku".

@alizarine
diyan naggaling ang term na "Sino ba siya, anak ng Cosplay God?". Alodia was one of the judges last Mangaholix 2008 (pakitama po ako kung mali) at nung lumabas siya may mga bouncer na nakabantay sa kanya. I heard from one of them "utos ng management" I wonder kung kanino kaya siya binabantayan against.

@ topic
Kung pwedeng magrequest kung sino ang karapat-dapat gumawa ng report tungkol sa mga otaku/cosplayer IMHO si Jessica Soho. At least siya walang bias.

I've actually heard her fans called Alodiacs.

Seriously, though, in a country where too many talented young people pin their hopes and dreams on the mainstream interests of mass media, where everyone wants to be "kapamilya" or "kapuso", Alodia's do-it-yourself do-it-your-way attitude is quite refreshing. She embodies Steve Rubel's assertion that we are all media.

She's not quite Shokotan yet, but we've watched her steadily learn the ropes of niche self-publishing over the last five years, despite living in a country that frowns upon people who stand out on their own. That's why I like her. :)

Back on the topic, this segment proves just how much Filipinos look down on nonconformists. If it weren't for such a negative attitude, we'd have more otaku rise to fame like Alodia.

Hahaha... I noticed that many "frontliners" on this OTAKU CIVIL [FLAME] WAR are beginning to change the topic. Even shifting to someone who is related but not actually involved... ^_^;; This is going nowhere.

TOPIC SPACE WARP... NGAYON DIN!

Wow thanks sa link ser XD

astig naka archive tlga....

@jason: hmnn, well, i don't like how media focused cosplay that way.

@ elliemitarai

thanks for answering ^_^ arguably, the management was perhaps trying to protect her from certain sorts of evil lurking within the "mob of fans". It was good of the management to do so, but I guess the number of security guys was quite preposterous O_o but then again, I think those guys were her own people, not the management's.
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She is female, and it is undeniable that she has beauty of face and form. This leads to a sometimes inevitable and uncalled-for hormonal imbalance within some of the male audience, which sometimes cause a psychologically-triggered "malfunction" over voluntary muscle control.... particularly to the carpal extremeties. And in such cases wherein space is quite an issue, it is quite a problem... and not just for her, but for all female cosplayers as well.

@ topic

The weird thing about ABS-CBN and GMA7 (especially GMA7) is that they tend to ostracize their own market at times. Remember when GMA7 was parading their "anime nation" slogan? When anime conquered even primetime television broadcast slots, ever wondered how they thought of the people who were then their "primary target market?" Do you think it's the same, from then till now?

I know... with all due respect to all media, I really know. Yes, they put their lives to deliver the most credible of all information... but to what extent? It's just a simple matter of "Anime" or "Cosplay" talk and not a large serving of news like "Global Warming" or "Inauguration of Barak Obama on the U.S. Presidency". Why don't they focus on some "petty thing" more than the larger, informative ones? Konting effort lang sana, mad-deliver nila yan ng maayos eh katulad ng pagbabalita nila ng maayos sa primetime.

Eh kaso wala... eto nangyari (at nangyayari). -_-;;

Heheh. So much for credibility from those mass media majors when it comes to anything but political dirt slinging, violence, countless chis-mis and stuff that comes out of reuters.
Then again, the concept of Ka-blog was stupid to begin with.

Then again, they really suck ass. Wait, not just ass, but the hole itself. They INCORRECTLY teach teens how to blog and hot to view other stuff.

GMA and ABS-CBN really does see us nonconformists as threats, thus they use their influence to poison people's minds. Who do they think they are, the Circle Of Nine from Blood Omen : Legacy Of Kain? If so, then they must be hunted down and slaughtered like the pigs that they are!

Yet they broadcast that Marian Rivera was the crowd's "favorite". "Favorite" my Filipino ass! All her visitors were only mothers, kids, and fangirls/fanfags! And yet they hand the GALL to lie to the public? Where's their "Walang kinikilingan, walang pinoprotektahan" slogan now? Buncha fucking liars.

And so begins our stand against mainstream media. Ready thine arms, brothers! FOR TRUTH, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR HONOR!!!

I appreciate the "effort" of featuring Pinoy otaku culture. The bad part is how they featured it. A parodic japanese soldier, commonerized Japanese accent, commonerized descriptions. Mga halatang hindi nag research ng mabuti. I dont hate the topic, I hate the way they delivered the topic (just watch the first few minutes, I wanna shoot in the head that host wearing japanese soldier uniform who kept on shouting BANZAI or whoever the hell thought about it.)

@mike:

Not really an Alodia hater, in fact I love her and her way of interacting with the fans. But then I kinda dont agree comparing her to Shoko-tan. Even though VIPPERs contributed with her rise to fame, she actually had a celebrity as a father...

For me, I don't treat Alodia as a COSPLAYER or a human object of fandom. I treat her as a REAL HUMAN BEING that deserves a decent respect.

And WHAT!? Those CORRUPTODILES wanted to require a license to blog!? That means, acquiring a license also requires fee... Aba! Kung sa taxes pa lang busog na sila pati ba naman BLOGOSPHERE peperahan pa nila!? Now I know why that madame bitch president is so evul... She's a descendant of DIO BRANDO!!! *ehemDIOsdadomacapagalehem!*

*Imagines the madame bitch president shouting MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA* ...ORZ!

STAND: I'M SORRY.
Effect: All of the negative accusations to her will be INSTANTLY NEGATED without question!

Side-Effect: Laking bawas sa kaban ng bayan.

Ugh, she's viler than the Child-Killer from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Sabi nila kasi, wag kong i-delete eh... so ayun. Off-topic na nga. -_-;;

Nag TOPIC SPACE WARP nga sila, hehe. (>_<)?

i feel sa vid na yan na parang dinidiscriminate tau... ewan cu lang ha.. my opinion...

Ibig sabihin, wala nang maitirang "bala" ang mga "frontliners" ng OTAKU CIVIL [FLAME] WAR. Pare-parehong napuruhan sa tindi ng mga pinsalang natamo. Retreat mode sila ngayon. Ngayon eeksena ang mga tagalinis ng mga "bangkay" ^_^;;

Shall we burn GMA? This is disgraceful!

ilalabas nila ata ulit yung episode na yan this saturday according to their commercial

omg. =O

kanguso = FAIL.

tsk.

tumigil ka nga, kala mo kung sino kang magaling. Tama ka na. Ikaw na ang batikan, ikaw na ang alamat, ikaw na ang may alam ng lahat. Wag kang magtago sa ilalim ng saya ng Internet. Ano ba talaga ng gusto mong palabasin, ang gusto mong patunayan? Nagsasabi lang ng saloobin ang mga tao dito, at eto ka't nagmamagaling. Wala namang kumokontra sayo, pero bakit panay ang depensa mo sa sarili mo. O dahil insignificant sa real life mo kaya nagsusumiksik kat nagpapapansin sa mga tao dito. Kitang kita na wala kang social life bro,

Sayang nga yung interview.. Tsk tsk. I knew the girl has to say something MORE than that. (And probably the first guy too.) Sayang, the editing didn't give the segment justice. Well, we shouldn't really expect much from a TV show that airs for around 30 mins to feature a really informative segment about a topic. I think the segment was meant for audience who knew NOTHING about what the word Otaku is all about (in Filipino context). And they rather choose not to go into the deeper details of the interview. Too bad for them.

To finish this, here goes...

If there's a chance that I have to talk with the script-writers and segment producers again, I'll give them some piece of friendly advice:

Understand us... and we will understand you.

That's all folks!.. for me. xP

I maybe late but yeah it's better than never

Woops I'm borrowing this account from my sister cuz i don't have an account here... but here's a a piece of my mind to this topic.

first, learning how japanese treated us made me hate that... but those people who probably did that are now dead. And its just foolish to bear grudge on a race just because the previous ones did a horrible thing to us.

On my biased reaction to that... "Like I care if we underwent a horrible event like that, if I were there at the moment I'd probably retaliate on the spot and die by the roadside because I chose to die fighting rather than to walk and dig my grave while they watch my back."

Also the mistakes of the people of the past aren't carried by those who live in this modern time, history only repeats itself because people choose to misunderstand things.

Don't think that the sin of a person is carried by the rest of its people and nation.

--getting back to the topic--

@for all who thinks of ill intentions/thoughts towards otaku- I don't care what they think... What's the difference between an otaku, emo, Rocker, Socialite, Uptight man, workaholics, gangsters, Fraternity members??? Is it their status? the clothes they wear? the way they act or how they speak? I, as much as possible don't want to speak bad things to people specially when they do nothing to me... But in this cases I tell you. By thinking that otakus, emo etc. became weird people you yourself also becomes a weird person yourself by discriminating your fellow human. You're not a god to express what you think, you were made to appreciate and co-habitate with the rest of your co-species. (got it Mr. Smarty pants?)

^also before you discriminate "US" otakus, be sure that you are discriminating those who are of levels lower than you. How dare you guys discriminate us just because we loved anime to the core. Aren't you ashamed of speaking even in an English language with a wrong grammar? (Forget the spelling it can be used on purpose or typo graphical errors). With such of a low basis or evidence and information about us (i.e otakus are murderers or retarded blah blah and so on) how bout saying like you guys (i.e. discriminators like you are racist, close-minded, selfish, celf-centered beings who only lives to their self-satisfaction only and thus cannot accept what changes or irregularities appear in between their lifespan).


We, I love anime not because I turned my back to Filipino culture or vowed my loyalty to Japan, or that I don't care what history taught me the lesson I should learn. I'd say "To hell with this Nation if they can't even accept the little changes around them, to hell with this race who discriminates their own kin while they themselves are worse than what they throw at others!"

I loved anime because I learn many simple things&lessons that an average person neglected to notice in their everyday life.

-t0hruhonda (FS account vincent_cortez2002@yahoo.com<<< Flame me there if you want to)

*pahabol lang*

@siloportem-"Otaku are useless and pathetic beings. Don't be stupid and use that retarded term to celebrate your hobby!" -you sounded more like of a retard who didn't go to school instead used the money to buy some drugs and wasted your already-low-life time on nothingness... oh yeah i got this stuff from the internet, maybe you took it literally "Anime-Drugs are cheaper"

You don't know what you're talking about.

otaku ako...

proud na proud...

I don't get why teh people is getting worked up sa vid...
(or hindi ko lang naintindihan?) (or wala lang akong pakialam?) wahahah...

kanya kanya yan...
buhay nyo, buhay namen...
masaya kayo, mas masaya kame...
walang pakialaman... XD

Meganon?! XD

This is one of the reasons why i took up Communications Marketing...to insert correct culture towards these lazy media freaks.

pati death march nasama na dito hahaha

I say this:
to us OTAKUS, it has a deeper meaning for us...
were not just immitating anime characters or watchjng anime all day
but we are humans too,
the only diffirence is, like me I am just bored with the normal flow
of my everyday life, that's why I became an OTAKU.
We do not escape reality. we are bored with it.

"Why go with the flow? Is it more fun to create your own?"