otaku
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Getting to know Japan’s weird side
July 16, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
Tokyo Geek’s Guide: Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols & More By Gianni Simone (North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 2017, 144 pp., $16.95, paperback) In the past two decades Japanese […] READ MORE
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A place of their own
July 26, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
OTAKU SPACES By Patrick W. Galbraith, photographs by Androniki Christodoulou (Seattle: Chin Music Press, 2012, 240 pp., $20, paperback) Patrick Galbraith is no newcomer to the otaku scene in Japan. […] READ MORE
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Falling birth rates and infantile otaku culture
March 17, 2012 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
I’m more of a Western gamer when it comes to my video gaming habits. I guess I just never got into the Moe-blob romance and tsundere masochism my friends have […] READ MORE
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Cosplay, transcending the fourth wall and more
July 15, 2010 by Nichi Bei Web
With the rising popularity of anime and the subsequent rise in popularity at such anime conventions as Anime Expo and Fanime Con in California, the practice of cosplay became a […] READ MORE
