Abstract
Many learners say that they began to study Japanese because of Japanese animation on TV in their younger days. Some of them became otaku. This paper aims to discuss about relation between being an otaku and studying Japanese. The targets of this study are otaku students in Japanese Language and Culture Study Course. They picked otaku topics for their final papers of the course. The author is also an otaku and supervised their final papers. Through discussion with colleagues and a teacher, the students deepened their knowledge and got new insight. Being an otaku can be a gateway to new insight and how learners deepen their thought is an issue in future.
