weeaboo

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A nonce word in "Weeaboo", a 2005 Perry Bible Fellowship comic by Nicholas Gurewitch, where it is only an unproductive action or product whose mention is taboo and punished with spanking. Used the same year as a wordfilter replacement for the abusive term wapanese on the message board 4chan, from which its current sense derived and spread. Now sometimes reclaimed as a self-description by anime and manga fans.

weeaboo (plural weeaboos)

(fandom slang, derogatory) A non-Japanese person, stereotypically an unsociable white male, who is overly infatuated with Japanese culture; a loser Japanophile.
- 2007 May 3, Kai, “Return of an old-timer and H. Naoto review”, in alt.gothic.fashion‎ (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
  I remember you distinctively because I once responded in grand detail to one of your posts about a kimono only to have you completley ignore it. Welcome back. The clothing sounds good but I tend to desire a non-weeaboo opinion. People who are head over heels about Japanese culture tend to be a bit “biased” in their reviews.
- 2010 January 24, Pisces, “ROB IS REALLY”, in alt.slack‎ (Usenet), message-ID <5ca8c049-ad60-4ec3-ba74-1326fa02ff3d@o36g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>:
  But its all over. Too bad. I suppose the boychild had hoped for some little Weeaboo boy who would fuck him up the ass in his mothers basement. He just really wanted to play dirty Gohan/Goku with someone like him.
  He is pretty sure Weeaboo’s hate halfassed black kids with cumstained sweatshirts though.
- 2022 April 18, Steph Cha, “Down the Rabbit Hole”, in The New York Times, Fiction:
  Ingrid has been with Stephen, a Japanese translator and blatant weeaboo, for five years, and yet is shocked when she finds evidence that all of his ex-girlfriends are Asian.
(fandom slang, sometimes positive) A person who is obsessively interested in anime and/or manga.