Otaku: Japan's Database Animals - Paperback

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals - Paperback

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Otaku: Japan's Database Animals - Paperback
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Otaku: Japan's Database Animals - Paperback

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals - Paperback

$17.95
$17.95

by 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.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 200
Dimensions: 0.43 x 8.56 x 5.46 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: April 01, 2009

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