One of Japan’s largest and most popular cosplay gatherings ... protections have constrained the growth of the community and limited its creative space. Cosplay culture in Taiwan can be traced back to ...

The country’s aesthetics and inventions have spread far. It still remains a singular place. To accompany one of this issue’s stories, T invited three artists to make mascots inspired by The ...

For Fariqqin Anuar, each time he travels to Japan, it becomes a moment of Isekai ... So strong was Fariqqin's desire to immerse in Japanese culture that he had initially wanted to relocate ...

So will Ishiba Shigeru, Japan’s new prime minister, another fan. Once a domestically consumed niche product “watched by people with no friends at school”, as one veteran producer ruefully ...