Yokoso,
We are a non-profitable group of jovial, enthusiastic, and proactive hobbyists, who share many interests such as Japanese anime and manga, video games, music, good food, digital photography, IT news and development, electronic gadgetry, and many more.
We have dedicated ourselves to a lifetime pursuit for the latest news and development on Japanese subcultures of anime, manga, and games. Inspired from the anime titled, Genshiken, which illustrates the lives of a group of otakus of opposite sexes, whom have showed their indulgence and passion in what they do for their hobbies. We share the same sentiments as portrayed in the anime and have decided to name our group after the anime, Genshiken, which comes from an original and longer version of the name, Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyuukai. Its equivalent English translation is, "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture". For more about the Genshiken anime, you may be interested to look it up at this URL, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genshiken or just Google it :D. We are nothing like the characters featured in the anime. We are a group made up of not more than ten members and unlike the anime, we have no female otakus. It is rare to have female otakus in our country, but I'm sure there are a handful of them but they remained undiscovered. We have other associates that are part of this binding circle but do not claim themselves as otakus but merely as keen hobbyists of Japanese anime, manga, and games. These includes friends, relatives and penpals. This web site was initiated, designed and developed to exalt the unrelenting spirit of our group, to create a strong web presence that will reach out, create awareness, and convey our strong resolution of Japanese hobbies to others on the world wide web.
Feel free to browse the site and if you feel like you want to make suggestions, opinions, critique about the site or anything else under the sky, do drop me an email to Zman (genshiken@otacult.com)