Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (English)

Author/Contributor(s):	Azuma, Hiroki ; Abel, Jonathan E ; Kono, Shion
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Date:	04/01/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.