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Otaku Culture

Anime University Circles and the Path to Professional Careers

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThe Japanese university system has a specific institutional infrastructure for student extracur...
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Nico Nico Douga — Japan’s Original Video Culture and Its Legacy

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledIn January 2007, a video-sharing website launched in Japan that would, over the following decad...
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The Otaku Bedroom — Displaying and Living With Your Collection

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a specific type of photograph that circulates extensively in the Japanese otaku online...
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Yoko Kanno and Yuki Kajiura — Japan’s Greatest Anime Composers

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledIn the long history of film and television music, it is unusual for a composer working in a sin...
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The Dark Side of Fan Culture — Stalking, Toxicity and Industry Failures

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThroughout this series of articles I have described the otaku culture with, I hope, genuine aff...