Playful, Sociable, Cute, Quarantined – Interactions with Kawaii Characters in
            <i>Animal Crossing: New Horizons</i>
            During COVID-19

This article explores how anime contributes to the creation of a culture that attracts autistic individuals and supports their lives. We identify three aspects that may explain why it becomes a special interest that is both deeply personal and widely shared: visual tactility, or animation stimming; layers, or moving through estranged worlds; and unmasking, or emerging neurocultures and languages. Tentatively presenting anime as ‘stim culture,’ we uncover new directions in autism and fan culture research.

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Playful, Sociable, Cute, Quarantined – Interactions with Kawaii Characters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons During COVID-19

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