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.
Everyone has an opinion on the pandemic, but few are talking about what long-term effects lockdowns and restrictions could have on convention culture and the subculture as a whole.
If you’ve been around to different anime conventions, chances are you’ve seen one or more anime cons where the programming wasn’t completely based around anime and Japanese culture.
But the event was still nominally an “anime convention.”
Many cosplays can benefit from the accurate design, detail, and customizability airsoft guns can provide, but there are important things to consider before using one as a prop.
Leaving the fun, welcoming environment of a convention for the harsh, unforgiving real world can be a downer, and Post-Con Depression can hit pretty hard.
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.
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.