If you’re a fan of Attack on Titan , this may be one of those articles that has you packing your bags for a trip to Japan. Firstly, this April, the series’ infamous Colossal Titan will rampage through the streets of Kawasaki, just south of …Read more »
3331 Arts Chiyoda, a multi-purpose modern art museum close to Akihabara, Tokyo, has been the sight of a few anime-related exhibitions over the years, including a huge Katsuhiro Otomo retrospective back in 2012. Last week, it hosted a pretty amazing exhibition dedicated to two recent …Read more »
Survey media catering to foreign fans and you’ll typically find that coverage of Tokyo-based otaku hotspots eschew any sort of legitimate local flavor or personality for pure commercialism. Extensive photographic coverage of toy shops, book shops, porn shops, maid cafes, outlandish signage and the occasional …Read more »
Patrick Macias and Yuu Asakawa are BACK, with yet another scintillating episode of their Tokyo-traversing web show, Otaku-Verse Zero. This time, Patrick visits a shop in Akihabara loaded to the brim with replica weapons, which is, as Patrick says, "Like Christmas day for the samurai." …Read more »
Legislation has been proposed in Metropolitan Tokyo to restrict sexually provocative "visual depictions" of characters who sound or appear to be minors under the age of 18. Obviously, this has been a hot issue of late in a variety of ways, but not everyone is …Read more »
Matt Schley
Sean O'Mara
Joseph Luster
