Japanese Anime Culture: Figure Moe Zoku (Otakus who collect figurines)

Hi there, Stevan again here!

Sorry about the late post, been quite busy these days..

Today I shall explain to you lot about a special type of otaku. The term otaku is used to generally categorize a group of people who are fans of a typical hobby, topic or any form of entertainment. But of course, although it means otakus are fans of many general things such as history fans and warfare fans, today im going to explain about otakus who enjoy Japanese anime and manga culture, and collects figurines for life - The Figure Moe Zoku.

There are several manga and anime otaku types, such as lolicon (otakus who love imouto - younger sisters), moe-lovers (otakus who love "cute" animes and manga characters), and some extreme types who love Dakimakura (body pillows with anime characters printed on it)... but Figure Moe Zoku is more "normal" because you guys know right, that there are many figurines of cartoon characters in the toy stores nowadays? Spiderman? Wolverine? Superman and such? Well "we" (i am one of the Figure Moe Zoku tribesmen as well) love those things as well, like those Western people who collects Figurines of Superman or DC comic characters in their cabinets. But of course, for Figure otakus, collecting anime character figurines are top priority - and we are proud of it.

Some Vocaloid Nendoroid

Source : http://www.goodsmile.info/product/en/3853/Nendoroid+Petite+Hatsune+Miku+Selection.html

Figure otakus collects figurines for pleasure. They imagine the figurines came to life (this is extreme explanation for you guys), and they love to look at them just staying in the cabinets, changing the poses and faces of the figurines, or placing them on their work desks beside their laptops (like me).

Here is some of my collection (please dont mind the quality of the picture...) :

Some went to the extreme... :

source: http://www.figure.fm/en/post/13403/my+figure+display+cabinets.html

Sorry some pictures are NSFW...

Lastly, what i want to say is that we figure otakus spent lots of money for these... and because WE ARE LONERS... LONERS...loners... (cited from my friend Andy Hoo)