[chaseme]

For non japanese speakers otaku is just people who enjoy Anime/manga than other tv shows/Novels.
i think japanese view otaku as people whod rather date a some anime/manga character than a real woman. or someone who would put his obsession over his basic needs. Like the character in genshiken the glasses wearing. I think he is the very essence of japanese otaku.
For non japanese it would be like the other character of genshiken.

anyway i dont think there is any otaku(of japanese standard) the fact that we choose to be in a japanese forum instead of a pure anime/manga community proves that we have a life outside of anime/manga.