Welcome to the site! As an introduction, we would like to present to you the conception and a brief background about Otakultura.
Otakultura is a site meant for the casual and hardcore otaku alike. It’s the love of our hobby that fueled the fruition of this humble place. It started off as merely sharing news and tidbits among friends through different communication channels. It was around half a year ago that the idea of coming up with a blog filled with the juicy goodness of Japanese culture (and probably a bit of the Western influences too).
But what’s in a name? The blog had to have a unique name, yet still easy to remember. Ideas were thrown here and there, until we came up with the very word that best describes our hobby and passion. Being otakus and living in the passionate world of the otakus, it simply was a brewing culture in itself. To put it quite simply, Otakultura is a portmanteau of the words “otaku” and “kultura,” a Filipino / Spanish translation for the “Culture.” Also, we felt compelled to add in a mascot to represent the blog. During our stay in the Tumblr domain, Otakultura was best represented by Chamo, the ermine from Mahou Sensei Negima. His perversion and chain-smoking addiction mirrors our undue perseverance over Japanese pop culture. Eventually, Chamo was replaced to prevent any future legal issues. A tokusatsu-inspired masked chibi began to symbolize the site, harmoniously synonymous with the burning passion of pursuing this long-time hobby.
Otakultura is our hobby of sharing our hobbies. Yes, it does sound confusing, but put it this way: we inform you and everyone else interested about the things we love the most. It’s your daily dose of both Japanese and Western hobby scene, particularly anime, manga, games, technology, Japanese culture and everything in between. We try our best to cater all interests relevant to this spectrum.
And without further ado, I say once again: Welcome to Otakultura!
The Team Behind Otakuktura:
Sieglark : Currently one of the editors-in-chief for Otakultura; he served as one-half of the founders of the site last 2009. His forte is on tokusatsu, gaming and a bit on anime. Apart from Otakultura, Sieglark is also a writer for Playground magazine, MMOHub.org, and MMOsite.com.
Chylle: The most active writer of the site, and is very informed when it comes to the latest otaku related news. He serves as co-editor-in-chief, as well as the other half of the founders for Otakultura.
Helrouis: Also known as Azraille-sama, he is the administrator, coder and designer of the otakultura.com . He is a professional web&game developer and artist.
