Otaku Dictionary

Ah, school uniforms. They’re a quintessential part of anime culture. Perhaps no style is more famous than seifuku, a Japanese school uniform modeled aft...

Thriller anime, or rather, the concept of a thriller anything novel, show, story etc. has been around for centuries. You need a good story, typical elemen...

How will humanity fall to its knees one day? Who knows. What we do know is that thinking about it is fun and it has proven to be a popular medium througho...

A New Mecha AnimeThanks to Tetsujin 28 and Mazinger Z, anime created a new genre known as mecha (short for mechanical, or sometimes referred to as mech), where y...

There’s a lot of terminology thrown around in anime like “otaku” or “seinen,” but there may be one type of term that gets used a lot but is confused more ...

You’ve heard of fanservice, right? You know, the term to describe an ecchi scene in a non-ecchi anime. But that is not its only definition. Fanservice is ...

In recent years, one of fastest expanding entertainment industries is competitive gaming. From gaming's earliest days of arcades, gaming has also shown hints of becoming...

For a good portion of the 1980s and 1990s, Japan was the dominant country in producing video games thanks to many of the big name hardware (Nintendo, Sega, and Sony) ...