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We 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 spec...
Readmore Aimed 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...
Readmore Your 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...
Readmore We 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...
Readmore BL anime are those kinds of shows depicting homosexual relationships between bishounen. Usually, there's a sweet boy who falls in love with another cutie ...
Readmore Anime 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...
Readmore Laughter 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...
Readmore Whether 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 ...
Readmore Our 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 ...
Readmore With 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...
Readmore While 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...
Readmore Last 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...
Readmore Western comics have their own classic jokes and symbols that we can understand without even thinking about them: a lightbulb above the head representing a...
Readmore The 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...
Readmore Set a thousand years in the future, Shinsekai Yori envisions a reality where humanity has declined leaving only an astonishingly small percentage of survi...
Readmore Harem is a subgenre of light novels, manga, and anime involving polygynous/polyandrous relationships. A polygynous/polyandrous relationship is a relations...
Readmore Last 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...
Readmore There 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 ...
Readmore Fantasy 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 ...
Readmore If 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...
Readmore As 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...
Readmore Like many other countries in East Asia, Japan was culturally influenced by China which was the most powerful and culturally significant country in the...
Readmore For the last decade, Yakuza, or Ryu Ga Gotoku in its native Japan, has been one of Sega’s biggest modern cult hits with its international fanbase rising with ea...
Readmore When a sad anime manages to touch us, it has the potential to mold us into kinder, more emotionally balanced beings. If you trust the words of psychoanaly...
Readmore In Part 1, we explored the history of manga publication in America—from redrawn versions of Astro Boy to flipped artwork to authentic Tokyopop manga volum...
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