Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono, Hiroki Azuma

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono, Hiroki Azuma

200 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous reflective slow-paced

Description

In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. Hiroki Azuma's 'Otaku' offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture.

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