weeaboo

weeaboo

slang A non-Japanese person with a very strong, perhaps obsessive, interest in Japanese culture and media. The term gained popularity on the forum 4chan. Often used as a term of derision. Not every manga fan is a weeaboo, OK?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • weeb
  • workaholic
  • blackfishing
  • fishing
  • come out of the closet
  • emoji
  • (as) rare as rocking horse crap
  • (as) rare as rocking horse poo
  • closeted
References in periodicals archive
A 'weeb' or 'weeaboo' is a person who is not Japanese but wants to be Japanese and is obsessed with Japanese culture.
'Elon-chan' a 'Your Name.' fan, wants to build mecha
More extreme fans became branded as Japanophiles, Wapanese ("Wannabe Japanese"), or Weeaboos (slang for Wapanese) in the same derogatory fashion as fans of Star Trek had been branded "Trekkies." Both fan groups have now claimed these derogatory terms as their own positive names for themselves.
Japanese anime and manga copyright reform