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  Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (Paperback) By (author) Hiroki Azuma, Translated by Jonathan E. Abel

  

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  Short Description for OtakuAzuma (Center for the Study of World Civilizations, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) philosophically explores the Japanese subculture of the otaku, which typically involves males between 18 and 40 who consume, produce, and collect comic books (manga), animated films (anime), and other products related to those forms of popular visual culture. He argues that the otaku provide a new model of po...
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  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Published: 27 March 2009
  • Format: Paperback 200 pages
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  • Categories: Popular Culture | Asian History
  • ISBN 13: 9780816653522 ISBN 10: 0816653526
  • Sales rank: 89,918

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• Azuma (Center for the Study of World Civilizations, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) philosophically explores the Japanese subculture of the otaku, which typically involves males between 18 and 40 who consume, produce, and collect comic books (manga), animated films (anime), and other products related to those forms of popular visual culture. He argues that the otaku provide a new model of postmodern consumer, the "database animal," whose ability to satiate themselves by cataloging, storing, and displaying characters from their stories is different from the "human" mode of consumption that searches for deeper meaning in stories. Originally published in 2001 in Japanese as Dobutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)