Otaku Culture
Love Japanese culture? How about Otaku culture? Well, this is the spot to be as we take you on our adventures exploring Tokyo and other parts of Japan. Learn a lot, enjoy even more!
Slice-of-Life anime are stories that view cut-out sequences of events in the characters’ lives. The story generally focuses on mundane experiences in scho...
ReadmoreWe anime fans love our merchandise—figures, plushies, t-shirts, key chains, and the like are all pretty par for the course at any convention booth or special interest store. But though...
ReadmoreAimed by definition at a young female audience, shoujo is probably the epitome of the genre preferred by the ladies! Just like every other genre, it comes...
ReadmoreYour Favorite Manga Visual Gags, Explained! – Chibi Mode, Referential Art Shift, Henohenomoheji Face
If you’ve been reading manga and watching anime for long enough, you’ll recognize a number of strange visual gags that don’t make inherent sense to Wester...
ReadmoreWe Westerners have become accustomed to manga’s unique weirdness over time, but some jokes still go over our heads. Why did a crow caw in the background w...
ReadmoreBL anime are those kinds of shows depicting homosexual relationships between bishounen. Usually, there's a sweet boy who falls in love with another cutie ...
ReadmoreAnime are often much better at telling horrific stories because they can exceed the bounds placed on live-action shows. Given whatever laws an anime’s wor...
ReadmoreLaughter can often be quite healing, and people frequently turn to shows if they’re looking for something to make them feel better. Anime are no exception...
ReadmoreWhether you’ve been following it as it airs or you’re waiting for it to release on Netflix, you may have noticed that music plays a pretty important role ...
ReadmoreOur discussions on manga and anime have almost all centered around Japan or America, but our favorite fandom has reached all across the world, with otaku ...
ReadmoreWith a huge well of inspiration to draw from, the genre of historical anime is one of the most varied out there. In this piece, we’ll be discussing variou...
ReadmoreIn Disney theme parks around the world, there are always seasonal events. Halloween is one of the most unique ones, and most of the world’s Disney resorts have ...
ReadmoreWhile Tokyo’s Akihabara is certainly the most famous otaku cultural center in Japan, Osaka’s Nipponbashi, Denden Town as it’s often called, should not be overlo...
ReadmoreLast time, we explored the ins and outs of three classic manga visual gags: sweat drops, sprouting animal ears, and growing mushrooms on one’s head. Today...
ReadmoreWestern comics have their own classic jokes and symbols that we can understand without even thinking about them: a lightbulb above the head representing a...
ReadmoreThe shounen genre in both anime and manga is famous the world over, even if someone might not recognize it initially. Popular anime adaptations like Narut...
ReadmoreSet a thousand years in the future, Shinsekai Yori envisions a reality where humanity has declined leaving only an astonishingly small percentage of survi...
ReadmoreHarem is a subgenre of light novels, manga, and anime involving polygynous/polyandrous relationships. A polygynous/polyandrous relationship is a relations...
ReadmoreWhen people think of cosplay in Japan, they usually think of school uniforms, idols, Final Fantasy, and other anime and Japanese video game cosplays. And they’r...
ReadmoreLast summer, we introduced you to Otsukai, the proxy shopping platform that gets you in touch with friends in Japan who can get you connected with the rare Japa...
ReadmoreWhether you participate yourself or not, you probably know the term “cosplay,” or at least the concept behind it. The term “cosplay” originally comes from Japan, and is the combination of t...
ReadmoreThere are seemingly endless numbers of anime genres out there, appealing to an incredibly wide audience with how different each one can be. Many of these ...
ReadmoreFantasy is easily one of the biggest and most popular genres of anime. Many, many anime every season fall into the blanket term of “fantasy.” But did you ...
ReadmoreIf the typical harem anime features your average guy surrounded by wonderful girls fawning over him, girls need to cheer up because it has its counterpart...
ReadmoreAs far as we know, shounen-ai, yaoi and BL anime depict romance, or sexual relationship between two male characters. Usually, these shows are full of cute...
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