Heat Map Special Report: Animesports
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Heat Map is a monthly Esports Insider Newsletter discussing emerging trends in the esports industry. In this special edition article, ESI Journalist Kerry Waananen looks at esports and anime’s growing convergence. Subscribe to Heat Map and other ESI newsletters here. Last week, gaming and esports audiences were treated to the latest artefact in what I’m calling ‘animesports’ — a portmanteau of anime and esports. Lifestyle gaming brand and esports organisation 100 Thieves dropped a 13-piece apparel line in collaboration with smash-hit manga and anime series Attack on Titan (AoT). The organisati…