Geekstorians Episode 8: The Anime Underground - How Fans Smuggled a Medium Into the West

Anime is everywhere now. Streaming platforms, cinema screens, fashion, music, TikTok, gaming. But it didn’t arrive in the West through studios, marketing campaigns, or corporate strategy. It arrived through fans. In this bumper-length episode of Geekstorians , Dave uncovers the real, messy, rebellious story of how anime travelled from post-war Japan to British living rooms and American college…