otaku festival planning
3 Silent Traps of Mainstream Otaku Culture
The three silent traps - overspending on celebrity guests (over 40% of startup budgets), diluting the ‘zhai’ identity, and mismanaging cosplay crowds - quietly undermine otaku festivals. The Taipei Otaku Festival, for example, recorded a 215% year-over-year surge in international fandom tourism, prompting organizers to chase metrics that mask these