/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>19179468
The second is that introverted otaku who prefer to spend time at home and by themselves now have a new means to do a number of things; show off their collection to a large group of likeminded people via the internet, customize their collection (for example Granblue Fantasy allows you to 'build' your characters), and importantly, not miss out on a certain collectible should another person acquire it. Certain physical collectibles may only be produced in a limited run or have a limited availability, whereas gacha games allow you go get ahold of pretty much any character as long as you're willing to spend the money or play when they are available, in the case of limited time availability. Obviously though, physical collectibles being limited may be a desirable aspect, so I'm not too sure about that point. I think the other big thing is that allowing a certain level of customization for these characters, again using GBF as an example, allows these otaku to feel more personal with them, similar to how people talk about bonds with Pokemon being formed after finding them at a low level, evolving them and maxing out their level and transferring them across generations. I guess this paragraph was poorly written.

I have a friend who spends large amounts of money on Shadowverse because he wants animated cards. The animated cards don't do anything different than their nonanimated counterparts except they have small looped particle effects within the card artwork and gold text for a name instead of just white. He said that he doesn't collect any figures or physical otaku merchandise, and when I asked him why, he said that because he spends most of his time on the internet (Shadowverse is his main game) he wants to collect things in the game and see pretty things where he spends his time; his domain is the internet, not his room.

What I'm unsure about in my 'model' is, in the case of introverted otaku, they would rather pour their money into a gacha game rather than into collectibles for their room, and spend their other money on nongacha cute outfits in an MMO or something. Maybe its because they still go out, commute to work and so on, or maybe its because they like to feel like they're raising and supporting the characters.

I feel like I could write more about this but my thoughts are too disorganized at the moment and I don't think I've done a good job so far.