Designing a Cross-Disciplinary Engineering Community Through Anime

https://coscup.org/2026/session/XRJJV3/

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1. Designing a Cross-Disciplinary Engineering Community Through Anime COSCUP x UbuCon Asia 2026 Yusuke Ohmori
2. About Me
3. About Me • Yusuke Ohmori ◦ 𝕏：@uutan1108 • Backend Engineer at Accenture • Favorite Hobby ◦ Watching anime ◦ Organizing engineering communities
4. One of the Communities I Organize EngineerAnime(エンジニアニメ )
5. EngineerAnime(エンジニアニメ ) I organize a community where people in the IT industry share lessons they've learned from anime and connect with one another.
6. EngineerAnime(エンジニアニメ ) A community for people in the IT industry. • Share lessons learned from anime • Listen to talks on topics such as: ◦ How anime has changed our perspectives ◦ Staying motivated through anime • Connect and network with other participants A place where anime inspires learning and brings engineers together.
7. Why EngineerAnime?
8. Why EngineerAnime? My goal is to create opportunities for people to connect beyond their own fields. • Meet engineers from different backgrounds • Discover areas of engineering beyond your own specialty • Take the first step into other engineering communities I hope EngineerAnime becomes a gateway to new communities and new perspectives.
9. Can We Learn from Anime?
10. Lessons from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Source: Bandai Channel https://www.b-ch.com/titles/6544/ (C)吾峠呼世晴／集英社・アニプレックス・ufotable
11. Lessons from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Anime can inspire the way we think and act. • Keep moving forward in difficult situations • Take action instead of waiting • Think and find solutions for yourself • Build the resilience to overcome adversity Stories can change the way we see ourselves, our work, and the people around us. Reference: Mynavi News, Two Habits for Achieving Results at Work, Learned from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20200522-1038144/
12. Why Did I Start EngineerAnime?
13. Why Did I Start EngineerAnime? • Meet people beyond my own role • Start conversations through anime • Create a fun and welcoming community
14. How Did the First Meetup Happen?
15. How Did the First Meetup Happen? • I found an inspiring presentation about lessons learned from anime. • I invited the speaker to give the keynote. • I asked anime fans I had met in other engineering communities to help organize the event. • Together, we launched the first EngineerAnime meetup.
16. Since Then... 24 Meetups
17. Held once every month Continuing to grow
18. Beyond Meetups
19. Beyond Meetups Our community has grown beyond monthly meetups. • Published anthology books and distributed them at Comic Market and other conventions. • Organized special meetup events at venues featured in anime. We continue creating new ways for engineers to connect through anime.
20. Publishing Anthology Books
22. Why We Started Publishing Books Not everyone can travel to our meetups. We wanted a way for anyone to participate.
23. Anthology Books • People can contribute from anywhere in Japan. • 3 anthology books published • 50+ authors across the series • Distributed at Comic Market (Comiket), Gijutsu ShoTen (Tech Book Fest), and Gijutsu Sho Doujinshi Hakurankai (Technical Doujinshi Expo)
25. Meetup at an Anime Location
26. Meetup at an Anime Location • We held a special meetup inMusashisakai, the setting of the anime SHIROBAKO. • More than 100 people joined the event to share what they had learned from the series. • We also served donuts inspired by a memorable scene from the anime.
27. We ended the meetup by recreating the famous "Don Don Donuts, Let's Go!" scene from SHIROBAKO. Source: ©「SHIROBAKO」製作委員会
28. Participants experienced the world of SHIROBAKO while attending EngineerAnime.
29. Hosted at Musashino Place Source: ©「SHIROBAKO」製作委員会
30. Beyond Tokyo Welcoming engineers from across Japan.
31. Beyond Tokyo We have also brought EngineerAnime to Kyoto and Osaka. Our next event will be be held in Numazu, Shizuoka—the setting of Love Live! Sunshine!!—in October 2026.
32. Kyoto Osaka
33. Every Region Brings Something New Each place changed our community, too.
34. How Our Community Grew
35. More Ways to Participate Crossing Disciplines Beyond One City
36. More Ways to Participate Our community grew as we created more ways for people to get involved. • Meetups • Talks • Anthology books • Event organizing
37. Crossing Disciplines Anime gave engineers from different backgrounds a reason to start conversations. • Backend • Frontend • SRE • Students • Designers ...and more
38. Beyond One City Every new city brought new people, new ideas, and new perspectives.
39. Let's Meet in Japan! 󰏦
40. See You in Akihabara! September 17, 2026 (Thu) EngineerAnime in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan 󰏦
41. Comiket 108 Source: https://x.com/yuzneri/status/2085562323226542228?s=20
42. Thank You Anime brought us together. Together, we've built something bigger.