Vault101 said:
Yes. A weeaboo is a westerner, typically white (the w is for west), who wishes he was Japanese or at least a Japanese citizen living in Japan, an attitude they typically have because of misguided perceptions of it gained entirely from imported Japanese pop culture.
An Otaku is pretty much just a "geek", someone whose into something (anything) to the point of neglecting other parts of societal function. Like most geeks this can actually be pretty useful when oriented on technology/engineering/computers in a practical sense, but oftentimes applies to people whose base of obsessive knowlege has no practical use like comics, video games, etc...
A Japanese person can be an Otaku (that's where the word is from) but could never be a Weeaboo, who is by definition an outsider who basically worshops Japanese nerds.
A weeaboo is incidently not someone who just likes Anime/Manga/etc.. I'm interested in those things as part of a broader interest in science fiction and fantasy for example (I'm more of a general geek), but someone who is into that kind of thing paticularly and obsessively and takes it to the point of say ordering and raving about Japanese snacks, using pigeonhole Japanese (Baka, Kawaii, etc...) in general conversation, oftentimes in appropriatly, and pretty much loudly pines over not being in Japan despie havign no idea what Japan is actually like. A weeaboo is the kind of person who will tell you that in Japan common adults will prefer to read Manga rather than newspapers, and there is no interest in sports or current events, and just geek culture, and in doing so they will mean it.
