A Review of Research on the Emotional Tendencies of the Otaku Group

As a youth subculture originating in Japan, otaku culture has formed a large erciyuan audience group in China along with the global spread of the animation, comics, and games industries, and the academic significance of research arising from it has become increasingly prominent. Existing studies still show insufficient systematic investigation of its internal psychological mechanisms, especially emotional tendencies. Taking emotional tendency as the core concept and adopting the literature review method, this study systematically sorts out the conceptual evolution of otaku culture and integrates research findings from psychology, communication studies, and sociology. It analyzes the emotional orientation of the otaku group from multiple levels and finds that otaku culture not only serves as a compensatory satisfaction system for the absence of real-life emotions, but may also aggravate otaku social avoidance and emotional closure through cyclical reinforcement.