The traveling Otaku Anime and Food Festival is returning to the Alamo City this weekend for its Lunar New Year celebration. The gathering will take place this Saturday and Sunday in the parking lot of ...

Otaku culture refers to the subculture surrounding anime, manga, and Japanese video games. Anime about otaku culture offers an insightful and often hilarious look into the lives and interests of ...

You can spot them at Tokyo's sprawling electronics bazaar called Akihabara (Electric Town). They're the geeky types who actually get a kick out of building their own personal computers and hunt ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Before I start, it’s worth clarifying what the word “otaku” means ...

New Solo Leveling line by OTAKU and Crunchyroll features apparel, accessories, and more modeled by Sung Jinwoo's English voice actor. Collection includes T-shirts, hoodies, cargo pants, keychains, and ...

I found myself in a bizarre, nerdy dreamland called Otaku Anime Café. Similar to Plaza Friki, this is where nerds congregate in downtown. Welcome to Nippon in Tijuana. As I enter, a video of Kyary ...

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 ...

In Japan, the stereotype is that all geeks are dudes. Walking around nerd areas like Tokyo’s Akihabara and Osaka’s Den-Den Town, the large number of guys would lead you to think that. That would be ...