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Otaku Culture

Isekai — The Genre That Took Over Anime

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledIf you open a list of currently airing anime in any given season of the past five years and cou...
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Japanese Otaku Fashion — Lolita, Harajuku, Decora

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOn any given Sunday in the Harajuku district of Tokyo — specifically in the area around Takeshi...
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Gunpla — The Art of Building Gundam Model Kits

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a display case in a hobby shop near Nagoya Station that I pass several times a month, ...
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Tokusatsu — Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOn Saturday mornings in my childhood — and I suspect in the childhood of almost every Japanese ...
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Otaku Spaces and the Future: Maid Cafés, Tourism and Soft Power

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a category of tourist that the Japanese government's tourism promotional agency, the J...