>>264 This video is not bad, sure. I agree with many of his takes. What I don't like is that he calls himself "the strongest otaku of the west" while standing in a room with barren white walls. No posters, tapestries, wallscrolls, dakis, manga collection, eroge collection, just one figure from a vn he hasn't even read. His technical skills are impressive don't get me wrong, I find it very admirable. But it has nothing to do with otaku. I can play various anisong on bass guitar. Learning bass took years of practice and learning those songs took lots of time. Just like language learning and illustration. I also know how to juggle. So what, it's neat, but irrelevant. Here's something that's very telling in my opinion. In his most recent video, at 10:51, he tells you to "watch gochiusa 30 times". This is correct, you should do this, but this is where his reasoning is wrong also. He says to watch gochiusa 30 times in order to learn japanese. If you're only doing it to learn japanese, then you're not an otaku, you're someone who is passionate about language learning. There's nothing wrong with that of course, it's respectable. But you shouldn't go around calling yourself "the strongest otaku of the west" in that case. The strongest otaku would watch gochiusa 30 time just to spend more time with Chino. He's confused about what otaku means.
This video is not bad, sure. I agree with many of his takes. What I don't like is that he calls himself "the strongest otaku of the west" while standing in a room with barren white walls. No posters, tapestries, wallscrolls, dakis, manga collection, eroge collection, just one figure from a vn he hasn't even read. His technical skills are impressive don't get me wrong, I find it very admirable. But it has nothing to do with otaku. I can play various anisong on bass guitar. Learning bass took years of practice and learning those songs took lots of time. Just like language learning and illustration. I also know how to juggle. So what, it's neat, but irrelevant.
Here's something that's very telling in my opinion. In his most recent video, at 10:51, he tells you to "watch gochiusa 30 times". This is correct, you should do this, but this is where his reasoning is wrong also. He says to watch gochiusa 30 times in order to learn japanese. If you're only doing it to learn japanese, then you're not an otaku, you're someone who is passionate about language learning. There's nothing wrong with that of course, it's respectable. But you shouldn't go around calling yourself "the strongest otaku of the west" in that case. The strongest otaku would watch gochiusa 30 time just to spend more time with Chino. He's confused about what otaku means.