0 in Japan, a young person who is very interested in and knows a lot about computers, computer games, anime (= animated films), etc., but may find it difficult to talk to people in real life: --
Hordes of otaku file in, dressed as theirfavourite video game characters.
Zero, 25, a self-proclaimed otaku, flunked out of the maths department at Tokyo's Keio University because he didn't like being ordered around by teachers to whom he felt superior.
For otaku, the only thing that matters is the accuracy of the answer, not its relevance. So no piece of information is too trivial for consideration.
There is a burgeoning young generation of hard-core otaku who are too uptight to talk to a telephone operator but who can kick ass on the keyboard of a PC.