Otaku Culture 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 Culture 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...
Otaku Culture Weekly Shōnen Jump — The Magazine That Shaped Global Pop Culture
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThe specific weight of a single issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump in my hand — approximately 300 to 4...
Otaku Culture Horror in Manga and Anime — Junji Ito and the Japanese Fear Aesthetic
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a specific quality of dread that Japanese horror produces that differs from the dread ...
Otaku Culture Mecha Anime — Giant Robots and Japan’s Mechanical Soul
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledJapan has a specific relationship with the giant robot that no other country shares, and the re...