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A Sketchy Proposal, Or How Fans Hide In Plain Sight

But often, the majority of anime fans are invisible. Even though I’ve interviewed anime fans in their 50s and 60s for my Anime Origin Stories journalism project, the median age at fan conventions like Otakon remains firmly in the 18-25 range.

By Lauren Orsini

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