Video game emulators that feature over 30,000 different games at Otaku Lounge, an anime and nerd culture establishment in the Crossroads area of Kansas City, on Thursday, June 19, 2025. Otaku ...

The guide covers 50 series across various genres, and explores the ever-growing prominence of manga by surveying some of the format’s all-time top titles. Lawrence provides both comics history ...

In otaku circles, a “waifu” is far more than just a favorite character. A waifu represents a deep, personal connection to a fictional character from anime, manga, or games—an artistic muse ...

T’s Culture Issue How Japanese Superfans Redefined What It Means to Be Obsessed Otaku, people for whom hero worship is a way of life, have changed everyone’s relationship to the culture.