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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8027045" data-attributes="member: 6802378">Otaku had got a pejorative sense in the past, but now it is not alway like this. At least otaku lacks of pejorative sense in Spanish community who love manga and anime.Wikipedia:Otaku (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language" target="_blank">Japanese</a>: おたく or オタク) is a Japanese term for people with consuming interests, particularly in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_and_manga" target="_blank">anime and manga</a>. Its contemporary use originated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_Nakamori" target="_blank">Akio Nakamori</a>'s 1983 essay in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Burikko" target="_blank">Manga Burikko</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku#cite_note-transscript_of_original_essay_text_(Japanese)-1" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku#cite_note-English_translation_of_original_essay_text-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> Otaku may be used as a pejorative; its negativity stems from a stereotypical view of otaku and the media's reporting on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Miyazaki" target="_blank">Tsutomu Miyazaki</a>, "The Otaku Murderer", in 1989. According to studies published in 2013, the term has become less negative, and an increasing number of people now self-identify as otaku,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku#cite_note-mynavi-3" target="_blank">[3]</a> both in Japan and elsewhere. In Spain the term "friki" (a latinized version of "freak") may mean "fanboy" or "a ridiculous or outlandish person".* D&D players aren't used to divine spellcasters without armour. * I remember the series Xena: the warrior princess and Hercules: the Legendary Journies with some pieces of "wuxia".  * What is the Japanse word for fantasy manga? Wuxia is Chinese, and Tokusatsu is the word for media productions with FXs (not only fantasy, but also sci-fi). * I have said WotC not only wants to be polite and avoid to offend, but Hasbro wants to be loved, popular, in the Asian markets. Hasbro wants to create its own manga-anime franchises/IPs. You could suggest or advice about how to be loved by the Asian fandom but you can't forbidd totally any "wuxia" title if it's created by Western authors. * Shaman should be a base class, but I admit I imagine something like a remake of the incarnum totemist, with powers about monster traits, close to the primal shifter class from Pathfinder: Ultimate Wild, or sometime like pact magic, but totem spirits replacing the vestiges.</blockquote>

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