Otaku Culture

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...
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Japanese Video Game Culture: From Famicom to Global Dominance

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOn July 15, 1983, Nintendo released a home video game console in Japan. The device — a red and ...
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Vocaloid and Virtual Idols: Hatsune Miku and the Synthetic Star

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOn August 31, 2007, the music software company Crypton Future Media released a product for the ...
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Figurines and Collectibles: The Material Culture of Otaku

By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a specific phenomenon in the lives of serious figure collectors that people outside th...