Filmmaker Eric Bresler On "Otaku Unite!"

-- The following interview was conducted with Eric Bresler, director of documentary film Otaku Unite!, at the New York Comic-Con on Februrary 25 and 26, with some supplemental questions being answered over e-mail. --

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-- Each gender gets its own comic. Each genre gets its own audience. There's certain cartoons that just the video gamers watch and associate themselves with. So within anime fandom, there are definitely sub-divisions. And, of course, the adult stuff is a whole different world, which also leads into the world of furries, which I discovered throughout shooting the more "fetishistic" aspect of the subculture. Costuming, I think to a degree, is a fetish in and of itself, so for some people it's not very much of a jump towards a more sexual type of costuming. --