The answer is everywhere.
- at class (someone use anime songs as their mobile phone ringtones,drawing anime characters on their notebooks,talking about animes and games at lunch time, like downloading animes and so on)
- at work (similar situation comparing with the pints list above)
- in street (someone walking past with an OTAKU look)
- someone you konw or have heared about ( who is a Japanese anime, manga or game mania)
What I would like to introduce is the place where is difined as OTAKU's base area in Japan.
It's called AKIHABARA (秋葉原).
Below is the link of introduction to AKIHABARA form Wikipedia dictionary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara
AKIHABARA is called the electronic city in Japan because there are many shops located there selling electronic products. Also,there are many shops selling ACG (anime,comics and games) products and internet cafes in AKIHABARA. The OTAKU group usually go to AKIHABARA to purchas ACG products, they stay at the anime concept cafes, watching cosplay shows and joining different types of actiities there. AKIHABARA is the main distributing center of OTAKU in Japan.
There is a TV drama called Akihabara@Deep which was on air in 2006. It is a story about young OTAKU group's life and career. They use AKIHABARA as the only stage, telling the tory about different levels of characters who belong or relating OTAKU group. The drama used a typical Japanese comedy style to reflect the OTAKU culture.
Specific introduction to the drama AKIHABARA@Deep:
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