Otaku Culture

Otaku Culture

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...
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Denpa Songs and Niche Music Culture

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a specific category of song that has existed at the fringes of the Japanese music mark...
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Otaku and Gender — Identity Construction in Fan Culture

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThe stereotype of the otaku is male — the specific cultural image I described in the opening ar...
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Anime Streaming Wars — Netflix, Crunchyroll and the Future

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledIn 2015, if you wanted to watch a specific currently airing anime series legally from outside J...