Tanaka firmly rejects him, stating that she could never be interested in a boy with long black hair. In truth, Tanaka-sensei is a secret otaku who only has eyes for her 2D love, Hitotose, a character from an ot
While Tokyo’s neighborhood of Akihabara is known worldwide as the center ofotakuculture—a veritable capital of geek-dom, if you will—female enthusiasts tend to congregate beyond of the spotlight in Ikebukuro, on the other side of the city. They flock to Otome Road, or “Maiden’s Road”...
at-home' period at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Tai-numa literally means Thai swamp, where 'swamp' is widely used in Japanese otaku culture both as a verb and a noun, as the metaphor to describe the fact that once you get hooked, it's difficult to get out...
But that’s the really difficult part. Since concern about getting raped is such a traumatic part of daily life for women, why are BL fans consuming so many series with non-consent themes? First, it’s important to note that most BL is VERY tame. The most we ever see on screen is ...
Dragon Ball Z is a gateway anime for many Otaku, which means tons of anime fans have a huge soft spot for it. However, like most anime, there's plenty of valid criticism as well. The characters lack depth and rarely learn anything from their experiences other than how to be better at...
Love Live Sunshine doesn’t really have any bad guys, since, like many a super-hero show over the last few years, the roster of protagonists is so over-populated that there isn’t really any space for enemies. Toshio Okada, theorist of otakuology, traces this imbalance of casting back ...
Dragon Ball Z is a gateway anime for many Otaku, which means tons of anime fans have a huge soft spot for it. However, like most anime, there's plenty of valid criticism as well. The characters lack depth and rarely learn anything from their experiences other than how to be better at...
InLove After World Domination, Fudo Aikawa is the leader of hero group Gelato 5 and and Desumi Magahara is a villain group minion known as the Queen of Death. They keep their love life private, which understandably leads to all types of complications in the battle of good versus evil....
Applications like this give the Japanese Otaku generation an alternative "Waifu" especially for those who find it difficult or nearly impossible to land a real wife. You would be surprised to know that many Japanese men do actually fall in love with their anime babes. On the Western front ...
Kondo's path to Miku came after difficult encounters with women as an anime-mad teenager. "Girls would say 'Drop dead, creepy otaku!'," he recalled, using a Japanese term for geeks that can carry a negative connotation. As he got older, he says a woman at a previous workplace bullied...