Otaku: the multiplicity of meanings in Brazil and Japan

• Grant number: 12/04432-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Languages
• Principal Investigator: Eliza Atsuko Tashiro
• Grantee: Leandro Nisishima
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

First trace the evolution of the term otaku in Japan, emphasizing the multiplicity of meanings that the term has in Japan, then trace the same parallel in Brazil, with the differences in the way of seeing and interpreting the same term between the two societies. (AU)