Kanako Hime

September 22, 2023

A Half Italian and Half English girl who’s passionate about Japanese music, Kanako Hime has been singing Anime Songs in Japanese for over 15 years on many different stages. Her live performances are a mix of music, singing and dancing, but most of all a lot of energy! Her TikTok account is 100% dedicated to "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", where she shares her passion for the manga&anime through fun and educational videos Are you ready to go on a bizarre adventure? Have fun with Kanako Hime! ...

Patrick Galbraith

by jasmine

August 23, 2023

Patrick W. Galbraith is an Associate Professor in the School of International Communication at Senshū University in Tokyo. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. Recent publications include Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan (Duke University Press, 2019), Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and The Ethics of Affect: Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood (Stockholm University Press, 2021). You can check out his books on Amazon...

Davis Madole

by jasmine

November 28, 2022

Davis Madole is a content creator, aspiring writer, and filmmaker. Davis is the owner of the YouTube channel "TitanGoji" where he writes and uploads video essays on tokusatsu and anime with a deep love for Japanese pop culture....

Megan Writes

by jasmine

November 28, 2022

Meg is a fan fiction writer from the East Coast. She discovered fan fiction over 20 years ago after looking up spoilers about an episode of Smackdown and has been writing ever since. She has dabbled in many fandoms, but right now, she is focused on writing fan fiction for My Hero Academia. When she is writing, Meg runs a small art studio that sells stickers, bookmarks, art prints, and other things. She is also the mother to a three-year-old, a wife, and an aerialist. ...

Hailey Piper

by jasmine

November 28, 2022

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, All the Hearts You Eat, The Worm and His Kings, and other books of horror. She is also the author of over 100 short stories appearing in Weird Tales, Pseudopod, and other publications. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their cosmic rituals are secret. Find Hailey at www.haileypiper.com and on Instagram at @haileypiperfights....

James Welker

by jasmine

November 26, 2021

James Welker is a professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Kanagawa University in Yokohama, Japan. He researches gender and sexuality in postwar and contemporary Japan, with an emphasis on the consumers and producers of queer media, the lesbian community, and radical feminism, as well as the globalization of Japanese popular culture. He is currently researching the global fandom of queer media from Japan—particularly boys love (BL), yuri, and trans manga, anime, and other media—and the relationship between that fandom and local LGBTQ+ cultures. He is the author of Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls’ Comics Artists and Fans (Hawai‘i, 2024) and the editor of Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia (Hawai‘i, 2022), BL ga hiraku tobira: Hen’yō suru Ajia no...

Andres Perez

by jasmine

December 5, 2020

Andres Perez is the creator and writer of the indie giant robot comic Primal Warrior Draco Azul. He has also expanded his storytelling into prose fiction, having co-written several novels such as Primal Warrior Draco Azul: Death's Gate and Atomic Rex: Ballad of Bravura. As a freelance editor, Andres has worked on a variety of other projects, including the giant monster comic Nagoraiar: Against the Terror of the Moon and the mythology-inspired novel series Gods’ Wrath: Tournament of the Divine. In addition to his literary work, Andres produces entertainment-focused reviews and podcasts on the YouTube channel KaijuNoir. Most recently, he contributed to Media Blasters's Kamen Rider Dyad Blu-ray release, providing both liner notes and commentaries as well as co-producing the featurette Rider Power: The Action...

Laura VanArendonk Baugh

by jasmine

June 10, 2020

Laura VanArendonk Baugh writes fantasy of many flavors as well as non-fiction. She has summited extinct, dormant, and active volcanoes, and has visited one active eruption, but none has yet accepted her sacrifice. She lives in Indiana where she enjoys Dobermans, travel, fair-trade chocolate, and making her imaginary friends fight one another for her own amusement. Find her award-winning work at LauraVAB.com....

Alena Van Arendonk

by jasmine

June 6, 2020

Alena Van Arendonk has been cosplaying for nearly two decades with her group “…And Sewing Is Half The Battle!”, an Indiana-based cosplay team that has garnered more than 50 awards for their costumes and performances at events around the United States. As an entirely self-taught seamstress and craftsman, Alena enjoys helping novice cosplayers improve their craft through workshops and seminars. She also provides professional costuming and SFX makeup work for film, theatre, and museums. When she's not making costumes, Alena works as a film, stage, and voice actress. She also juggles the hats of author, artist, historic preservationist, gamer, and fangirl. Check out her site: https://www.andsewingishalfthebattle.com/ Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AndSewingIsHalfTheBattle/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/asihtb Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andsewingishalfthebattle/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Gf4AJyUSriIjMdjyTG9CQ...