A traveler at heart, Brianna is a risk-taker and goal chaser. Ever since she saw her brother playing Ocarina of Time on their N64, her path was set. In 2021, she graduated from California State ...

TAMANO, Okayama Prefecture--As a teenager, Ayako Kurita hid her love for manga and anime because “otaku” geeks were ridiculed at the time. But after surviving a life-or-death situation during the 2011 ...

It originated from the Japanese word “おたく,” an honorific term meaning “your house,” symbolizing obsessive tendencies towards hobbies. The term was first popularized in 1983 by Akio Nakamori in Manga ...

But why study otaku at all? It’s a question even fellow academics have asked Galbraith. Older scholars, who earned their credentials in other, more conventional fields before theorizing about the ...

Being an anime fan isn’t always easy. Over the years, the once-niche medium has waned with its popularity, leaving fans in a sort of limbo of acceptance. Nowadays, anime is back on the up and up, but ...

Freelancer Emily and I went to Nakano the other day to check out Mandarake, a multi-level otaku shopping center that holds within its core the Best Video Game Store In Japan. With the growing ...

The International Otaku Expo Association (IOEA) could be the title of one of those self-referential, po-mo anime shows that is as much about fandom as it is made for fans (think "Genshiken," an entire ...

Anybody who doubts the rapidly growing influence of Japan's erotic cultural imports in the U.S. only has to spend a little time playing with a Hello Kitty vibrator while reading a fan-created ...

Stefania (she/ her) is a Lists Writer at Dualshockers who also writes game guides from time to time. She is a true Nintendo kid and a cozy gamer at heart. Her love language is all about staying home ...

Femi Famutimi is an experienced writer writing within the gaming space for the last four years. He has been featured on Esports Insider, DashFight, and WePlay. He enjoys fighting games especially ...