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81 relations: Academy Awards, Akiba-kei, Akihabara, Akihiro Ōtani, Akio Nakamori, Anime, Anime and manga fandom, Anorak (slang), Bishōjo game, Caste, Comic Party, Comiket, Cool Japan, Cosplay, Daicon III and IV Opening Animations, Dating sim, Eroge, Fan (person), Figure moe zoku, Gainax, Geek, Genshiken, Gunbuster, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Hayao Miyazaki, Hikaru Ichijyo, Hikikomori, Hiragana, Hiroki Azuma, History of Japan, Homosexuality, Honorific, Idoru, Itasha, Japanese idol, Japanophile, Kaoru Kobayashi (murderer), Katakana, Loanword, Lolicon, Lynn Minmay, Macross, Maid café, Manga, Manga Burikko, Maurice Benayoun, Meiji University, Mobile Suit Gundam, Mockumentary, Moe (slang), ..., Motoko Arai, Nagoya, Nagoya City University, NEET, Nerd, Nijikon, No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!, Otaku no Video, Otaku Unite!, Otaku USA, Otome game, Otome Road, Prime Minister of Japan, Reki-jo, Romanization of Japanese, Shōji Kawamori, Slasher film, Spirited Away, Takashi Murakami, Tarō Asō, The Observer, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Vocaloid, Welcome to the N.H.K., William Gibson, Wired (magazine), Wotagei, Yaoi, 9th International Architecture Exhibition. Expand index (31 more) »
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Akiba-kei
or is a Japanese slang term for Akihabara style.
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Akihabara
is a common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan.
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Akihiro Ōtani
, a Japanese journalist, known for his political crusade in the Japanese mass media against otaku and his stake in the junior idol industry.
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Akio Nakamori
, real name, is a columnist and editor born on January 1, 1960, in Mie Prefecture, Japan.
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Anime
Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.
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Anime and manga fandom
Anime and manga fandom (otherwise known as fan community) is a worldwide community of fans of anime and manga.
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Anorak (slang)
"Anorak" is a British slang which refers to a person who has a very strong interest, perhaps obsessive, in niche subjects.
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Bishōjo game
A, or, is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive girls".
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Caste
Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a lifestyle which often includes an occupation, status in a hierarchy, customary social interaction, and exclusion.
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Comic Party
, sometimes abbreviated to ComiPa, is a romantic adventure and dating sim video game by the Japanese game studio Leaf.
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Comiket
, otherwise known as the, is the world's largest dōjinshi fair, held twice a year in Tokyo, Japan.
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Cool Japan
, along with "Gross National Cool" is a concept as an expression of Japan's emergent status as a cultural superpower.
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Cosplay
, a contraction of the words costume play, is a hobby in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.
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Daicon III and IV Opening Animations
The Daicon III and IV Opening Animations are two short, anime, 8 mm films that were produced for the 1981 Daicon III and 1983 Daicon IV Nihon SF Taikai conventions.
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Dating sim
Dating sims, or, are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.
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Eroge
An is a Japanese pornographic video game.
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Fan (person)
A fan, or fanatic, sometimes also termed aficionado or supporter, is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, such as a singer or band, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie or an entertainer.
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Figure moe zoku
is a Japanese term which refers to "otaku who collect figurines".
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Gainax
is a Japanese anime studio famous for productions such as Gunbuster, The Wings of Honneamise, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, FLCL, Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, which have garnered critical acclaim and been commercially successful.
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Geek
The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast or a person obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit, with a general pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, boring, or socially awkward".
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Genshiken
is a manga series by Shimoku Kio about a college club for otaku (extremely obsessed fans of various media) and the lifestyle its members pursue.
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Gunbuster
Gunbuster, known in Japan as, is a Japanese OVA anime series produced by Gainax released from 1988 to 1989.
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Haruhiko Mikimoto
is a Japanese anime character designer, illustrator and manga artist.
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Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist.
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Hikaru Ichijyo
Hikaru Ichijyo (一条 輝 Ichijō Hikaru) is one of the main fictional characters of the Macross Japanese anime series.
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Hikikomori
In Japan, are reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement.
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Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (Latin script).
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Hiroki Azuma
(born May 9, 1971) is a Japanese cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher.
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History of Japan
The first human habitation in the Japanese archipelago has been traced to prehistoric times.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Honorific
An honorific is a title that conveys esteem or respect for position or rank when used in addressing or referring to a person.
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Idoru
Idoru is the second book in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy.
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Itasha
is a Japanese term for a fashion of individuals decorating the bodies of their cars with fictional characters of anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo games or eroge).
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Japanese idol
In Japanese pop culture is a term typically used to refer to young manufactured stars/starlets marketed to be admired for their cuteness.
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Japanophile
Japanophilia refers to the appreciation and love of Japanese culture, people or history.
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Kaoru Kobayashi (murderer)
was a newspaper delivery man who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered, a seven-year-old girl from the Japanese city of Nara on November 17, 2004.
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Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
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Loanword
A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.
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Lolicon
, also romanized as lolikon or rorikon, is Japanese discourse or media focusing on the attraction to young or prepubescent girls.
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Lynn Minmay
Ling Ming-mei (Japanese: リン・ミンメイ Rin Minmei, Chinese: 鈴明美/林明美 Pinyin: Líng Míngměi/Lín Míngměi), better known by her stage name Lynn Minmay, is a fictional anime character from the Super Dimension Fortress Macross television series and Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie.
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Macross
is a Japanese science fiction mecha anime media franchise, created by Shōji Kawamori of Studio Nue in 1982.
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Maid café
are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan.
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Manga
are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.
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Manga Burikko
was a lolicon hentai manga magazine published by Byakuya Shobo from 1982 to 1986 in Japan.
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Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957 in Mascara, Algeria) is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong.
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Meiji University
is a private university with campuses in Tokyo and Kawasaki, founded in 1881 by three lawyers of the Meiji era, Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi Kōzō, and Yashiro Misao.
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Mobile Suit Gundam
is a televised anime series, produced and animated by Sunrise.
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Mockumentary
A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
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Moe (slang)
is a Japanese slang loanword that refers to feelings of strong affection mainly towards characters (usually female) in anime, manga, video games, and other media directed at the otaku market.
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Motoko Arai
Motoko Arai (新井素子, born August 8, 1960 in Nerima, Tokyo) is an award winning Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer.
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Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan.
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Nagoya City University
, abbreviated to, is a public university in Japan.
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NEET
A NEET or neet is a young person who is "Not in Education, Employment, or Training".
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Nerd
A nerd is a person seen as overly intellectual, obsessive, introvert or lacking social skills.
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Nijikon
, from the English "2D complex", is the feeling or opinion that two-dimensional anime or manga characters are more attractive (visually, physically or emotionally) than real-life people.
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No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!
, commonly referred to as, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nico Tanigawa.
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Otaku no Video
is a 1991 anime spoofing the life and culture of otaku, individuals with obsessive interests in media, particularly anime and manga, as well as the history of Gainax, its creators.
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Otaku Unite!
Otaku Unite! is a 2004 documentary film by Eric Bresler on American fans of Japanese culture, specifically anime and manga, known as Otaku.
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Otaku USA
Otaku USA is a bimonthly magazine published by Sovereign Media, which covers various elements of the "otaku" lifestyle (such as anime, manga, video games, cosplay and Japanese popular music) from an American perspective.
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Otome game
An, sometimes contracted to otoge, is a story-based video game that is targeted towards women.
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Otome Road
is a nickname for a street in Ikebukuro – a district of Tokyo – which is located to the west of the Sunshine 60 building near Ikebukuro Station.
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Prime Minister of Japan
The is the head of government of Japan.
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Reki-jo
are Japanese female history buffs, who may also use the speech and mannerisms of pre-industrial Japan in their social gatherings.
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Romanization of Japanese
The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.
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Shōji Kawamori
is a Japanese anime creator and producer, screenwriter, visual artist, and mecha designer.
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Slasher film
A slasher film is a film in the sub-genre of horror films involving a violent psychopath stalking and murdering a group of people, usually by use of bladed tools.
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Spirited Away
is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Tohokushinsha Film and Mitsubishi and distributed by Toho.
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Takashi Murakami
is a Japanese contemporary artist.
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Tarō Asō
is a Japanese politician who is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
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The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
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Tsutomu Miyazaki
, also known as The Otaku Murderer or The Little Girl Murderer, was a Japanese serial killer, cannibal, and necrophile who abducted and murdered four young girls in Saitama and Tokyo Prefectures from August 1988 to June 1989.
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Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia; in English also called the "Venice Biennial") refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organization organizes.
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Venice Biennale of Architecture
Mostra di Architettura di Venezia, the architecture section of the Venice Biennale, was established in 1980, although architecture had been a part of the art biennale since 1968.
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Vocaloid
is a singing voice synthesizer software.
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Welcome to the N.H.K.
is a Japanese novel written by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, with a cover illustration by Yoshitoshi ABe, and was published by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan on January 28, 2002.
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William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wotagei
refers to a type of dancing and cheering gestures performed by wota, fans of Japanese idol singers (and thus seen as Akiba-kei), involving jumping, clapping, arm-waving and chanting slogans.
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Yaoi
Yaoi (やおい), primarily known as in Japan, is a Japanese genre of fictional media focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between male characters, typically marketed for a female audience and usually created by female authors.
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9th International Architecture Exhibition
The 9th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture was titled METAMORPH.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku
