Otaku Culture

Kyoto Animation — The Studio That Changed Anime Aesthetics

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOn July 18, 2019, a man entered the building of Kyoto Animation's first studio in the Fushimi w...
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Sports Anime — From Aim for the Ace to Blue Lock

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledIn the autumn of 2021, a manga about football began serialising in Weekly Shōnen Magazine that ...
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Chuunibyou, NEET and Social Withdrawal in Otaku Culture

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a specific Japanese word for the phase of adolescent development in which a person bec...
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Gacha Games and Mobile Gaming — Japan’s Smartphone Entertainment Economy

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThe term gacha (ガチャ) derives from the specific onomatopoeia of the gachapon machine — the coin-...
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Otaku Abroad — Global Japanese Pop Culture Communities

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOne of the specific pleasures of writing a blog about Japanese culture for an international aud...