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!
FRIENDS Game Shop in Akihabara Akihabara, or Akiba for short, is sometimes called the Holy Land by otaku, and not without reason! This part of the Chiyoda ward in ...
ReadmoreIf you have watched anime for long enough, you know that you have seen a Japanese obento at least once (or a hundred times). We’re pretty sure that you ha...
ReadmoreYou’ve been to an anime convention and sat in the audience as a panelist or panelists sit on the small stage behind a table with a white tablecloth and black sk...
ReadmoreWhen a lot of people first think about cosplay, they just imagine anime. But the cosplay world goes so much deeper, with people cosplaying from television...
ReadmoreYou are bound to have heard it at one point or another. It is the word “doujinshi”. Sometimes, it can be shortened to doujin, or improperly spelled as dojinshi. What does this word mean? D...
ReadmoreWe all know it when we see it - that moment in an anime when the animation suddenly transforms from its normal, plain self into a fluid, amazingly beautif...
ReadmoreIf the Takeuchi Naoko does not ring a bell, we know for sure that you will have heard of her most famous work, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon at least once...
Readmore“How to Summon Your Own Demon” sounds like something that, these days, could pass for an anime title, no? You have some either occult obsessed boy or girl...
ReadmoreVampire Anime, much like the classic story trope itself, has been around for a very, very long time in the anime world. Gaining big notoriety with Vampire...
ReadmoreMusic anime is, as some fail to consider and realize, actually slightly different from an industry dominated by idol anime. Yes, in fact, you can have an ...
ReadmoreStudio Ghibli is arguably the most highly-regarded and well-known Japanese animation studio in the world. Studio Ghibli’s films form almost half of the ...
ReadmoreIf we go back nearly a decade or so—as of this article, that means around 2008—we would see a very different state for the anime industry. Even when a ser...
ReadmoreOver the past 20 years, anime and Japanese culture have thoroughly invaded the West. Our generation learned to love them by watching Pokémon, Sailor Moon,...
Readmore“See you space cowboy.” “See you space cowboy.” Most adult anime fans will know exactly what those words mean the moment you say them - Cowboy Bebop! The anime...
ReadmoreCategories of anime, or genre of anime, or types of anime are interchangeable, depending on who you ask or what website you’re looking at. We Western fans h...
ReadmoreBetween the 11th and 19th century, Japan was mostly ruled by a military government called the shogunate. The shogunate is named after the shogun, the figu...
ReadmoreSci-Fi anime, a lot like space anime, takes a look at our own realities, just… enhanced. If you have ever wanted to fly, there’s an anime for that. If you...
ReadmoreThe supernatural is all around us… or so anime would have you believe. From ghosts to superpowers to aliens to gods to demons, the supernatural genre of a...
ReadmorePsychological anime is wholly of its own, and at the same time, the genre cannot stand alone making it coupled with other genres constantly. Psychological...
ReadmoreSpace is supposedly the last frontier. Because you know, humanity needs to send itself further. There are so many things we do not know about the infinite...
ReadmoreNothing is better than a good mystery. It keeps the reader or viewer or listener ready, alert, and on the edge of their seat. In fact, it can easily be ar...
ReadmoreDrama… You’ve probably seen the tag, but what does it actually mean? Does it being overly ridiculous like the a sitcom? Does it mean being having the sky ...
ReadmoreSince the rise in popularity in series like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, magic has been booming amongst the masses with people just drinking it...
ReadmoreWe here at Honey’s Anime have been using the Only Girls Anime tag for a long time, but it occurs to us that there might be some people out there who might...
ReadmoreAh, school uniforms. They’re a quintessential part of anime culture. Perhaps no style is more famous than seifuku, a Japanese school uniform modeled aft...
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