Otaku Lounge is an anime-centric blog established in 2013 that occasionally also focuses on other forms of Japanese general and pop culture such as music, film, food, fashion, and travel. Posts are largely non-academic in nature and aim to be easily understood and enjoyed by anime veterans and those newer to the medium alike. The author of Otaku Lounge is Artemis, a New Zealander who lived and worked in (very rural) Japan from 2012-2019. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2012 on the topic of representations of sexuality in anime - with Otaku Lounge being her opportunity to write about anime in much more general and informal terms!