Otaku Life & Culture

A celebration of fandom beyond the screen through Otaku Life & Culture! This section explores the lifestyle, creativity, and community that anime fans around the world share. From cosplay adventures and anime crushes to gaming obsessions and fan art spotlights, this is where you’ll find the heartbeat of otaku culture.

  • A battle with dyslexia and laziness

    A battle with dyslexia and laziness

    It makes me positively ill, to the point where it’s hard to swallow and my heart sinks deeply into my stomach. I have done it again, and I thought I had been doing quite well recently. Yet in just the span of two weeks, I have had three spelling errors. Two of which, my boss…

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    3–4 minutes
  • GeekFest is this weekend!

    GeekFest is this weekend!

    Oh my gosh, I just finished reading the press release for GeekFest and now I am really excited for this year’s event. This year the theme is Big in Japan. The theme, Big In Japan, makes me rather happy as it means that I have not missed the theme that could probably not be a better fit for my…

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    2–3 minutes
  • My very first ComicEx!

    My very first ComicEx!

    Oh wow how quickly the time flies. I can not believe ComicEx has now already come and gone. ComicEx offers sci-fi, gadgets, tech, comics, movies, gaming, cosplay, Parkour, live entertainment, music, dance, magic and so much more. ComicEx presents a diverse range of exhibitors, artists, stage performers and competitions. They aim to be a geeky…

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  • AYA: 27 May 18

    AYA: 27 May 18

    Wow I am tired. Between last weekend and this weekend I am really tired and yet I still do not have the chance to really have a break as this week coming is Africa Health.  I predict I shall be busy for most of the time and on my feet all day from Tuesday-Thursday. Well…

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  • AYA: 22 May 18

    AYA: 22 May 18

    The Month of May has been a busy one it would seem. As you know my bestie got engaged and a childhood friend of mine died. Since then GeekFest has also happened and that weekend in itself was a busy and chaotic one. On Saturday, 19 May 2018, le boyfriend’s father died. I had swapped…

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  • AYA: 7 May 2018

    AYA: 7 May 2018

    Recently I have been doing a lot of thinking about what I really want to do and if I am doing what I want and if what I am doing will get me to where I want to be. I have also been thinking about where it is I actually want to be going. So…

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    5–8 minutes

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