1. Otaku
Ah, Japan nowadays. Entertainment has become an important part that can't be separated for life. It might sound exaggerated, but that's just the truth.
Nobody can be missed from entertainment. From kids, teenagers, adults… even babies and old people! With their own ways, they seek for that entertainment. Kids will ask their parents, adults will find free time to do so, and babies will just cry. Teenagers, being in the most energetic phase in life, have their own ways! Like working, playing criminal-and-cop with the teacher in the class to check the internet-happenings with the phone, or making friend to be used later on. You know, like in the case when you ran out of money.
However, this passage (if this is even a passage) isn't going to discuss about this entertainment-problem-thingy, but instead, just a small part of it.
Jersey is your normal teenager, you see. Normal means, school is a part of his daily activity. And normal school life means doing things you're not supposed to do, like coming late, sleeping, playing with the phone, chatting, folding paper plane… I think I'm getting off topic here.
So, Jersey. A bit tall but not lanky from the well-balanced food and exercise, teal-blue eyes, and a blonde. The thing is he has this stubby ponytail, wears glasses, always has headphones on, and has some weird taste of fashion… like combining shirt and jersey. Yeah. That only leads to one conclusion—what kind of person he is? An otaku!
You know that it has nothing to do with the description said before. Like, it has nothing to do with fashion sense, but let's let that one slip off.
Based on popular belief, an otaku is someone who is obsessed with a certain thing. Let it be video games, anime, manga, idol, computer, and even things like trains. It's really up to you what to obsess, but you probably can guess what the majority of community is obsessing over.
And for Jersey… Let's say there's this idol group called Melody, highly known for their fluffy, sweet, and colorful songs. And hell, if you don't know them, I'm sure you've been living under a rock or some sort. Melody consists of some members with ranging age (still in their teens, though), but for our dear protagonist, the most attractive one is this member called Chia.
Chia has a neck-length wavy hair with her bangs sided to her left and she has a signature purple flower accessory on the left of her head. Although she has the same shade of blond and shared the same blue eye color as Jersey (even Parka once noted, "Maybe she's your long-lost twin or something,") nothing really stops him from liking her adorably petite body and her perfect cute voice.
What is not to love from Chia? She highly deserves the 64 GB storage of his MP3 player and 32 GB storage of his phone (this brings problem when he actually needed his phone memory to store something that's not Chia since it's full), three of four of his monthly allowance and his whole part-time job salary (good thing Parka is really really nice for bringing him banana occasionally because he doesn't have the money even to buy food), and his time (no further explanation is needed for this one—it's obvious)!
Yeah. That's what an otaku is. Thinking that you're one of it? Well, that's not my business.
~~Gonna give a reply to one kind reviewer, ilovevocaloid93. Thank you for the suggestion, but like what I've said in the first chapter, you shouldn't expect long chapters weigh 1k more words! I'd really appreciate your understanding because I will not make the chapters longer! Thank you~!