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Anime and the Extreme-Right: Otaku Culture and Aesthetics in Extremist Digital Propaganda — Photo by Diego Tenreiro on Pexels

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The Dark Trick: Far‑Right Artists Are Hijacking Otaku Culture for Digital Radicalization

Anime-inspired visual tropes are weaponized by far-right digital propagandists to hijack otaku culture and accelerate radicalization. By borrowing iconic lighting, character designs, and meme formats, extremist groups turn fandom enthusiasm into a recruitment funnel, blurring the line between fandom and ideology. 56% of sampled extremist storyboards incorporate recognizable anime tropes,