So a LianHe ZhaoBao (Singapore’s main Chinese paper) journalist recently rounded up some anime bloggers (due to the Akiba stabbings in Japan) to be interviewed which was initially covered by Zero, but I gotta hand it to tj_han for his hilarious transmisintepretations:

“提到御宅族时，一般人或许会想到《电车男》里男主角的形象。你觉得它对御宅族的刻画准确吗？御宅族一定是害羞和不善于和别人沟通， 喜欢沉浸在虚拟世界里的人吗？ Speaking of otaku, normal people think of Densha Otoko. Is this accurate? Are all otaku shy and antisocial?

老实说，《电车男》 是个非常极端性的电影/连续剧，但我并不否认它呈现的宅人黑暗的一面。剧情里出现的男主角的确反映出多数较极端的御宅族所拥有的社交问题，但多数御宅族都 并无那么无能。的确，完全沉溺于虚拟世界，争论着动画美少女比真人来的好的人确实存在，但并不能因此一概而论。正确地说，应该是多数御宅族由于除漫不赏， 与”普通人”也变得没多少话题可谈。在御宅族社圈内，只要有动漫之类的话题展开，多数都会变得非常健谈。

若是想真正了解御宅族性格，我建议阅读漫画系列《现视研》，宅群里该有的角色都出现在漫画故事里。

Really, it is not true at all. Us Otaku love the sunshine and sports. In fact, otakus are great at sports, like masturbation. We always compete to see who can shoot the fastest, furthest, hardest, longest and greatest volume. Sometimes, the viscosity is taken into account. We have the annual Masturbation Marathon contest too. It’s one of the greatest sports festivals around. Densha Otoko is quite a low level otaku because he got tricked into giving up his hobby for this old woman. He has no masturbation pride. Also, if you look at the IRC channel of us otaku Singaporeans, sganimebloggers on rizon, you can see that they are all really popular people with fantastic inter-personal skills.

For example, this sentinel011 has some many pictures of Japanese girls in his facebook profile. I mean, with all those pictures, they must surely be his friend right? And by the law of averages, one of them must be his girlfriend? Or all of them are?? This is the otaku charm at work. So otaku are not losers, as they have far more Japanese girlfriends than normal people.”

Self-degradation at its best.

Oh and why have I not been blogging about the Akiba stabbings? Coz I really couldn’t care less. UNLESS.. some idiots in Singapore (perhaps those journalistic types) try to argue that being Otaku means you are likely to drive a lorry into Orchard Road and stab innocent Great Singapore Sales shoppers with a stolen bayonet, which is a post hoc fallacious argument. Then I just might have to do something.

Let the lulz begin!