Matt Altさんのイラストまとめ

This is a great back and forth between two generations of otaku. https://t.co/KTxeBzj0Dy

Fashions, prints, and postcards featuring Yumeji's designs entranced Tokyo's female upper crust. Believe it or not, there had never been a shop intended explicitly for young women in Japan before Tamaki opened Minato-ya. The demand was explosive.

A favorite example of human vs. machine translation is @aokajiya's legendary rendition of Tidus' Japanese to Yuna in FFX. His "thank you" in Japanese becomes "I love you" in English. No system is going to make that kind of leap. Talks about it here: https://t.co/UKo0sGJin2

Wrote psychologist Tamaki Saito (who also coined the term "hikikomori"), “Tomino didn’t expect this reaction; he simply wanted to make his characters more realistic and human. But he inadvertently stimulated desire for a fictional character.” https://t.co/2bJ9FyfVCG (5/x

Another epic Japanese pop culture anniversary! March 13th marked 40 years to the day from another profound turning point: the first nude scene in a mainstream anime film, "Gundam III: Encounters in Space.” (1/x

The anime is called Bungo Stray Dogs, and portrays Meiji/Taisho literary greats in bishonen and bishojo style. Dazai is the protagonist, a “suicide-obsessed detective.” (The real Dazai committed suicide in 1948.) Here’s real Dazai, haunting Bar Lupin in Ginza, and anime Dazai.

Ado Mizumori isn't well known abroad, but she's a superstar designer in Japan, and one of the originators of kawaii style.

Can confirm: I really want to brush my teeth now.

On the other hand, the 1964 Olympics transformed manga and anime too. Their popularity added rocket fuel to an already popular genre, sports manga, and launched the スポ根 ("supo-kon," sports-spirit) comics boom of the late Sixties.

Perhaps most intriguing tidbit from Google's AR search announcement yesterday was the revelation that searches for "anime " currently outpace searches for "video games" globally, with "anime" hitting highest peak on record last month. https://t.co/VVf1QaGPNw