Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

by Hiroki Azuma

Book Overview

A publishing event--the highly influential best seller in Japan translated into English

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816653526
• ISBN13: 9780816653522
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.6"