Author: Francesca Bandayrel (Francesca Bandayrel)

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Growing up on anime, cosplay and video games

METRO TORONTO, Canada—When my sister Mikayla and I were about 11 and 12 years old in 2008, the internet still had advertisements that ran on Macromedia Flash (the design software was phased out in 2021). We kept seeing one ad for a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) called Mabinogi by Korean developer Nexon.  We...