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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a cafe deep in the heart of Amerikamura, Osaka, tables of otaku are sitting down to tea and cake with women old enough to be their mothers. Mother Café is an otaku fetishist establishment staffed ...

In Japan, the number of female visitors to shogun castles, samurai battle re-enactments and history bookstores has recently increased. Observers attribute this to the rise of the "history girls" — a ...