Curated category
Fandom
- Fan fictionIn 1614, Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda published a sequel to Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote before the original author had finished his own second volume.
- FandomIn 1870, a group of women in England began writing letters to each other about the novels of Jane Austen. These Janeites formed one of the first documented…
- OtakuThe word otaku began as a polite Japanese pronoun meaning "you" or "your house." Science fiction fans in the late 1960s used it to ask if someone owned…
- Fan serviceThe word fan service emerged from Japanese anime and manga fandoms to describe material added specifically to please an audience.
- CosplayIn June 1983, Nobuyuki Takahashi wrote an article for the Japanese magazine Comic Com. He introduced a new word to describe the activity of wearing costumes…