Manga and anime inspire a wide range of creative activities for fans: blogging and contributing to databases, making elaborate cosplay costumes, producing djinshi (amateur) manga and scanlations, and engaging in fansubbing and DIY animation. Indeed, fans can no longer be considered passive consumers of popular culture easily duped by corporations and their industrialcapitalistideologies. They are now more accurately described as users, in whose handscultural commodities can provide instant gratification but also need to be understood as creative spaces that can be inhabited, modified, and enhanced.