OTAKU /ɔˈtɑ.ku/ おたく

Origin

Otaku from Taku meaning ‘your house’ was given to people who would never leave their homes due to an obsession, say with (but not limited to) computer gaming, videogames, or manga. This could in turn be detrimental to their social development. An equivalent here in America might be obsessive fans of ‘World of Worldcraft’ that let a virtual world often become their only priority.

The World of Moé 

With any fad comes the need to find the polluted side, and with experimentation/demand some new, very pornographic fixations known as ‘seijin manga’ (adult manga) came to spark anything from Hentai, Ecchi and Moé. The last is an obsession of anime girls of a prepubescent age depicted in sexually suggestive ways. Influences can be found from Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita about a man who enters a relationship with a twelve year old girl. The word Moé means ‘budding’ or ‘adorable.’ This has led to the creation of what is commonly referred to as ‘the world of Moé.’ Below are such Moé-ites.

Moé comes from the obsessive fanaticism, and role playing that is a common practice in Japanese video games. Girls can be bought as pillow cases, usually in suggestive and alluring poses, and serve as girlfriends to the men. Similar is the very popular interactive game by Konami, LovePlus+ lets men have a virtual girlfriend who will like or dislike you depending on how much attention you give her. You can even take her to a real resort that allows you to spend a ton of real money for an unforgettable romantic experience. Advertising brilliance has made the city of Atami very rich.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703632304575451414209658940.html

Website dedicated to fulfill the needs of these men offer more advanced pillows with padding in the stomach and breast area, and sometimes a rubber hole for more personal use. The Akihabara district of Tokyo is a shopping paradise to Moé-ites.

http://www.kanojotoys.com/japanese-idol-sex-pillow-set-p-488.html      

NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH

Bishōjo meaning beautiful girl refers to the way girls are depicted.

Dakimakura is the word for a hug-pillow

James Franco makes a good point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwrf8loXceA

REASONS FOR MOÉ

Some may criticize that it comes from a sexually repressed country where a large percentage of men remain unmarried, and rumors of up to a quarter of these men still virgins. Those that engage actively in Moé might argue it teaches them to become more loving. They might believe they are past the point of being able to get a real girlfriend. Activist encourage men to not be ashamed of their preferences but instead to parade them in public like any other monogamous relationship.

Some believe it is the way men without families can sometimes gain a strong desire to be fathers, and this can give them that experience. Very careful attention, even putting a girl to bed can be performed with utmost meticulous detail. Emotions that never were alive inside them may now be opened.