Akio Nakamori

{{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|中森明夫|date=April 2021}}

{{short description|Japanese writer}}

{{nihongo|Akio Nakamori|中森 明夫|Nakamori Akio}}, real name {{nihongo|Ansaku Shibahara|柴原安作|Shibahara Ansaku}}, is a Japanese columnist and editor born on January 1, 1960, in Mie Prefecture, Japan. He is credited as popularizing the term "otaku" in its modern colloquial usage (first used in Manga Burikko).{{cite book|title=Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga|first=Frederick|last=Schodt|authorlink=Frederick Schodt|page=[https://archive.org/details/dreamlandjapanwr00scho/page/44 44]|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|isbn=978-1-880656-23-5|date=September 1, 1996}}{{cite book|title=Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo|first1=Patrick |last1=Macias |authorlink1=Patrick Macias |first2=Tomohiro |last2=Machiyama |page=13|publisher=Stone Bridge Press| isbn=1-880656-88-4|date=November 1, 2004}}{{cite book|title=Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know|first1=Gilles |last1=Poitras |authorlink1=Gilles Poitras |page=9|publisher=Stone Bridge Press| isbn=1-880656-53-1|date=December 1, 2000}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cjas.org/~leng/otaku-origin.htm|title=The Origins of "Otaku"|first=Lawrence|last=Eng|date=November 4, 2003|accessdate=November 5, 2010}} After dropping out of Meiji University's Nakano Junior and Senior High Schools, he graduated from Wako University. Along with Yūichi Endō, he launched the Tokyo Otona Club in 1982.

He is most well known for his study of serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, {{nihongo|The Age of M|Mの時代|M no Jidai}}, published in 1989.