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Dojinshi specialty shop will live on in other capacities, but its 28-year-run in Akihabara is coming to an end.
After missing multiple iterations due to the coronavirus, organizers feel confident about holding otaku gathering once again.
Free-to-attend, free-to-exhibit event is an online substitute for cancelled Comiket, held in virtual Akihabara.
Continuing outbreak causes organizers to call off dojinshi event for the first time in its 45-year-history.
Fan thinks Japanese linguistic stubbornness is limiting the potential audience of Japan’s artists and creators.
Even as he’s being put in the back of an ambulance, this hard-core otaku doesn’t forget what he came for.
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Turns out illustrator has some first-hand experience with her main mammary matter.
Otaku assemblyman’s latest project stars a 1,300-year-old girl from a popular video game franchise.
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