
Otaku
Japan's Database Animals
Hiroki Azuma(Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Will be published approx. on 25. March 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8166-5352-2 (ISBN)
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 thecharacteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture.
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Edition
English edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
209 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-5352-2 (9780816653522)
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Persons
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.