We all know the game whack-a-mole, but now there’s a new game called whack-an-otaku. It debuted at the TIF Gakuen Spring School Festival at the Belle Époque fashion school. The festival is associated with the Tokyo Idol Festival concert series, and the idols involved there …Read more »
Nice find from ANN’s Kim Morrissy on the Twitter this week: a trading card shop in Akihabara, Tokyo’s mecca for otaku merch, has apparently had enough of smelly customers. The official Twitta account for the shop announced a new shop policy on Twitter this week: …Read more »
Virtual reality can take you to different worlds, but it can also take you back in time. Toei Animation subdivision Onn’on Studios teamed up with Sony to create a virtual space titled “Nostalgia 1999.” It can be found on VRChat. The nostalgia is specifically otaku …Read more »
Otaku. We’ve written many posts about the various ways the word has been used over the years, and how attitudes toward people with geeky interests has evolved. Here’s the latest word from a poll conducted in Japan by marriage consulting firm Partner Agent. The poll, which collected information …Read more »
Earlier this week we posted about the possible end of ‘otaku persecution’ in Japan, where the public’s image of otaku has softened over the years. Not everyone shares those sentiments, though, including artist Keiko Moritsugu, who followed up a claim that “moe has ruined anime” with …Read more »
For decades, the word “otaku” had a distinctly mixed connotation in its native Japan. Among fellow otaku, it was a simple greeting, a literal “you” borrowed from ancient Japanese used as a kind of nod to one’s geeky peers. For those on the outside, though, …Read more »
With the caveat that the word “otaku” means different things to different generations, subcultures and nationalities, this is still some pretty interesting news. A survey of 400 Japanese women from 15 to 24 around Japan has revealed that almost 70% of those women identified as …Read more »
Earlier this week Japanese twitter user Lambda39 chose to do some light research into the personal hygiene habits of anime fans. After posting a poll asking otaku how often they showered, the following results came out: ● Every day, obviously: 81 percent ● Roughly every …Read more »
It sounds like a bad joke; a disgruntled otaku still living with his parents into middle age, who becomes so frustrated with their nagging about his lifestyle that he snaps. Unfortunately, what might otherwise be a hypothetical situation or some kind of nasty stereotype has …Read more »
It’s been a bad month for Love Live! fans, with a bomb threat, vandalism and removal of promotional manhole cover art, and one fan getting kicked out of an event for wearing too much swag. Now it seems some female otaku in Japan have decided …Read more »
Catching the virtual love bug! When you think about the NEET lifestyle (if you think about it at all), Keima Katsuragi is usually one of the many examples that come to mind. And then there’s Moriko Morioka; a near-middle-aged woman who just quit her office …Read more »
Otaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (“Love is Hard for Otaku”), an award-winning manga about the trials and tribulations of otaku love, is getting an anime adaptation this April. The series will be animated at A-1 Pictures, and star Arisa Date, Kent Ito, Tomokazu Sugita, Miyuki …Read more »
As the Japanophiles among us are no doubt aware, while in English the word “otaku” basically refers to fans of anime and manga, in the original Japanese it means something more along the lines of “someone who’s really into one specific thing.” Otaku have long …Read more »
Roughly half of gamers are women, but you wouldn’t know it when asking the average person. Most people are still caught in the same antiquated mindset that women just aren’t interested in games. It’s an idea that’s certainly not true, as we all know (especially …Read more »
Have you met the man or woman of your dreams? Is that man or woman… two-dimensional? If you’re looking to get hitched but there’s a slight, well, hitch, one company in Japan has the thing for you. Gatebox, a company that “lets you experience cohabitation …Read more »
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