He may very well be the biggest, highest-level otaku in the Genshiken, but he’s also somehow the most stylish, most sociable, and most conventionally attractive.
When you’re flying around DCS World in the Weebjet 5000, you don’t get to take yourself seriously, no matter how much money you spent on your flight sim setup.
Obviously, otaku pursuits can be life-encompassing endeavours. The 17 Sustainable Otaku Goals serve to help otaku integrate their passion into a healthy lifestyle, thus avoiding burnout and conflicts both inside and outside the subculture.
Hotels are a big deal when it comes to conventions. How you deal with the hotel situation has the potential to ruin your con experience or make it that much better.
Managing your money well is an absolute imperative to having a good con experience. Failure to plan ahead and think before spending can bring about disastrous results.
Rather than making commentary on otaku culture by passively studying it through a cultural critic lens, Otaku Spaces meets the otaku right where they live.
The vandalism at RainFurrest doesn’t represent the whole of the furry community. Nonetheless, a relative few malcontents do have the power to ruin everyone else’s fun.
Cosplay is a performance in service to a character. It’s what happens when you love a character so much, you want to become them, at least for three days at a convention.
It’s inspiring whenever geeks, nerds, and otaku go out of their way to look out for other geeks, nerds, and otaku, and Operation Hammond is that at scale.
Yandere love is true love. It’s unconditional love. It might not be rational, but then again, love isn’t rational. A yandere girl is crazy about you, but she’s also crazy about you. That’s the appeal.
Capable of controlling the light, A.C., and other household appliances, as well as functioning as an alarm clock and a weathergirl, Vinclu Inc.’s Gatebox is Amazon’s Alexa with an otaku spin.
Monster girl fans might recognize this as the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, which is partially responsible for launching the monster girl craze of the past few years
In the anime fandom, moe (often spelled moé) has been a hot-button for the last decade or more. Some love it, some hate it, but many don’t even know what it is.