What about animeshniki? This is a passionate people. At times, he is so passionate that he wants to transfer the 2D world to reality by any means. Perhaps this has a peculiar charm, because thanks to the fans of this genre, new, interesting words appear in everyday life, about which ordinary people do not know anything. For example, what is a wifu?
The meaning of the term
It comes from the English word "wife," which means "wife." But what does this have to do with otaku and what is “wifa” in the anime?
This term can be described as follows:
- Waifu is a favorite character from a manga or anime whom otaku (fan) supposedly elevates into a wife status.
If it’s even easier to explain what “wifa” is, then we can say that this is any fictional female character to whom there is a special relationship. And the addiction to the painted girl, as a rule, manifests itself in the fact that she is considered their spouse.
How it all began?
The primary English expression appeared in Japan just at the time of the arrival of the first Americans. Initially, this word was not given much importance, and “gaijins” (foreigners) in the country of the Rising Sun are wary.
After World War II, English is included in the curriculum as mandatory. The country is becoming open to visitors, and some foreign words and phrases are becoming an indispensable element of youth jargon.
Since the anime industry is focused on teenage and adult audiences, directors always follow new trends in speech and behavior of the target audience. For the first time, this term was spoken in the TV series "Azumanga", which was broadcast in 1999-2002 on TokyoTV. A school teacher in Kimura, talking about his family, wanted to show off his English skills to his colleagues and called his wife “wifa”. This episode became the main catalyst that provoked the penetration and rapid spread of the word on the Web.
At first, when the term did not yet have an established definition, the answer to the question of what “wifu” was was “Goddess”. This was not entirely true. Animeshnik experiences a sense of trembling delight and aesthetic satisfaction for the “goddess,” but an otaku may also have an intimate attraction for the “vayf”.
New era
Now that we know what “wifa” is and where it came from, it would be logical to assume what will happen next. There is a hypothesis that in the future they will become real. Looking at how the fashion for “marriages with anime characters” is growing, in November 2016, Gaetbox introduced the electronic assistant on the market, the avatar of which is an anime character.
The assistant can work independently, endowed with the ability to learn, knows how to recognize signals. Something reminiscent of Ene - the "electronic girl" of the protagonist of the anime "Actors of the Blinded City". By the way, it can also be regarded as a wifi.
Here it is, one of the sides of the ideal world of animeshnikov. Someone thinks that this is completely absurd, someone will start flipping through psychiatry textbooks in search of a suitable diagnosis, and someone will just watch another episode with his beloved Wi-Fi.