Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

Hiroki Azuma with Jonathan E. Abel (Translator), Shion Kono (Translator)

200 pages hardcover 2001

8 editions

nonfiction adventurous reflective slow-paced
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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 within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loner...

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