Otaku: Japans Database Animals
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Otaku: Japans Database Animals
By (Author) Hiroki Azuma
Translated by Jonathan E. Abel
Translated by Shion Kono
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
27th March 2009
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
306.0952
Physical Properties
Hardback
200
Width 137mm, Height 216mm, Spine 18mm
Description
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on by mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture.
Author Bio
Hiroki Azuma is codirector of the Academy of Humanities in the Center for the Study of World Civilizations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. A leading cultural critic in Japan, he is the author of seven books, including Ontological, Postal, which won the 2000 Suntory Literary Prize.
