“The kind of person an otaku will be happy being married to isn’t another otaku.
And since otakuism is, for many fans, a rather comprehensive part of their lifestyle, many otaku feel their best chance for a happy love life would come from marrying another otaku.
It’s a person who’ll understand and accept the amount of time and money you spend on your otaku hobbies, and that honestly doesn’t depend at all on whether your spouse is an otaku or not.
Even Tokyo’s most prominent otaku matchmaking service advises its clients to have interests outside the traditional otaku spheres, in order to help them be a better-rounded, more relatable person.