Otaku : Japan's database animals
Hiroki Azuma (Author), Jonathan E. Abel (Translator), Shion Kono (Translator)
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
Print Book, English, 2009
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University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2009
xxix, 144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780816653515, 9780816653522, 0816653518, 0816653526
254528970
Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma
Translators' introduction
What is otaku culture?
The otaku's pseudo-Japan
The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material
Otaku and postmodernity
Narrative consumption
The grand nonnarrative
Moe-elements
Database consumption
The simulacra and the database
Snobbery and the fictional age
The dissociated human
The animal age
Hyperflatness and hypervisuality
Multiple personality
"Originally published in Japanese as Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kōdansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--Title page verso. Translated from the Japanese