The Anniversaries this December 15th They combine various events that happened on a day like today, Monday, as the World Otaku Day.
This date is targeted People who are passionate about manga and animeessential elements of modern Japanese culture. In Japan the term is Otaku refers to a person with some type of obsessionand applies equally to men and women. This fanaticism also manifests itself through Clothing and other aesthetic arrangementsthat reaches its maximum expression CosplayThis is the name given to the practice of dressing up as a character.
There is no clear origin of this celebration. The best-known version goes back to a 1983 newspaper article by Japanese journalist Akio Nakamori, who coined the term to describe manga fans.The city is full of otakus“According to the trade site, the note was titled Within Japan. Nakamori’s article was not kind to this urban tribe: “They’re like those kids – there’s one in every class – who never got enough exercise, who spent their breaks in the classrooms, hidden in the dark in front of a blackboard. Shogi (Japanese chess) or do anything. “They are.”
The OtakuFar from being angry about the article, they redoubled their efforts and included the name Nakamori to this Japanese counterculture that spread to the rest of the world.
Anniversaries on December 15th: What happened on a day like today?
- 1832 – French engineer Gustave Eiffel, responsible for the tower named after him in Paris, is born.
- 1892 – Jean Paul Getty, oil tycoon, is born in the United States. From World War II until his death, he was considered the richest man in the world.
- 1914 – Argentine filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen is born.
- 1942 – Argentine presenter and journalist Canela is born.
- 1943 – American musician Fats Waller dies.
- 1949 – American actor and singer Don Johnson is born.
- 1955 – Argentine musician and conductor Roberto Pettinato is born.
- 1961 – In Jerusalem, Israel, Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death.
- 1966 – Argentine actor and comedian Esteban Prol is born.
- 1966 – American businessman and cartoonist Walt Disney dies.
- 1971 – French mathematician Paul Pierre Lévy dies.
- 1975 – Argentine actor and filmmaker Sebastián De Caro is born.
- 1977 – Argentine presenter and model Úrsula Vargues is born.
- 1979 – Adam Brody, American actor, is born.
- 1983 – In Argentina, President Raúl Alfonsín creates the National Commission on Enforced Disappearances (Conadep).
- 1991 – Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti performs before a crowd on Avenida 9 de Julio in Buenos Aires.
- 2010 – American actor and filmmaker Blake Edwards dies.
- 2012 – Argentine actress Olga Zubarry dies.
- 2013 – British-American actress Joan Fontaine dies.
- World Otaku Day is celebrated.
- Truck Drivers’ Day is celebrated in Argentina.
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