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...Just three days before the Nikkei peak, US audiences had their first glimpse of Akira, the seminal anime that would create a global generation of Japanese cartoon fans....
...As a café otaku (obsessive), she visited hundreds of them in Japan and abroad before opening two places last year in East Williamsburg in Brooklyn....
...But Akiba is also synonymous with otaku (geek) culture, and it is filled with anime shops, “maid cafés” and, of course, game centres. Most notable are the GiGO game centres around Akihabara station....
...There are visual nods to nature, to plants and flowers, while her points of reference include Japanese anime and film soundtracks....
...It upgraded its 2022 sales and earnings forecasts in October and expects to generate $37.1bn in revenues next year, up 15 per cent on 2020. Jamie Smyth 17....
...The Japanese, after all, invented the concept of otaku — a label commonly used to identify geeks who obsess over anime and manga, but can stretch to include people heavily into cameras, cars and other collectibles...
...In contrast, Kenji, the youngest of the four siblings at 37, seems naive. True to his Japanese family roots, he loves anime....
...The other side, says Mori, has to an extent developed as a branch of Japan’s “otaku” culture....
...The 37-year-old artist commands a pithy and profound retrospective at PS1, a distillation of her still-evolving career....
...Japanese otaku (geek) subculture....
...Often translated as “geek”, otaku actually stems from the formal Japanese word for “your home” - most otaku are recluses obsessing over the minute details of anime, manga and other parts of Japanese pop-culture...
...ODDBALLS WHO KEEP THE ANIME ROLLING Mainstream Japanese anime may be facing a turning point, but there is one sector of the market that continues to thrive - the otaku market....
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