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Otaku Culture

The Survival and Death Game Genre

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledIn 2000, a novel by Koushun Takami was published in Japan that had been rejected by the publish...
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The Tankobon — Manga’s Physical Book Culture

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOn the shelves of most Japanese households with any cultural engagement whatsoever, there are m...
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Anime Concerts as Shared Ritual

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledI want to describe a specific moment that I have witnessed at multiple anime music concerts ove...
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Kemono — Japan’s Anthropomorphic Character Tradition

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOn the upper floors of a specialist shop in Akihabara, past the figure display cases and the do...
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Anime and Mental Health — Darkness, Healing and Emotional Truth

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledWhen the anime series A Silent Voice (聲の形 — Koe no Katachi, directed by Naoko Yamada for Kyoto ...