Otaku Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Otaku Spaces write by Patrick W. Galbraith. This book was released on 2012. Otaku Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive look at Japan's otaku collectors, including peeks inside their rooms and visits to their favorite stores.
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan write by Patrick W. Galbraith. This book was released on 2019-12-06. Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with “otaku” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate “otaku” culture into its branding of “Cool Japan.” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of “otaku” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of “otaku” and “cute girl” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (“the Holy Land of Otaku”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding “otaku” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, “otaku” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.
The Otaku Encyclopedia
The Otaku Encyclopedia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Otaku Encyclopedia write by Patrick W. Galbraith. This book was released on 2014-02-28. The Otaku Encyclopedia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Otaku: Nerd; geek or fanboy. Originates from a polite second-person pronoun meaning "your home" in Japanese. Since the 1980s it’s been used to refer to people who are really into Japanese pop-culture, such as anime, manga, and videogames. A whole generation, previously marginalized with labels such as "geek" and "nerd," are now calling themselves "otaku" with pride. The Otaku Encyclopedia offers fascinating insight into the subculture of Cool Japan. With over 600 entries, including common expressions, people, places, and moments of otaku history, this is the essential "A to Z" of facts every Japanese pop-culture fan needs to know. Author Patrick W. Galbraith has spent several years researching deep into the otaku heartland and his intimate knowledge of the subject gives the reader an insider’s guide to words such as moé, doujinshi, cospla y and maid cafés. In-depth interviews with such key players as Takashi Murakami, otaku expert Okada Toshio, and J-pop idol Shoko Nakagawa are interspersed with the entries, offering an even more penetrating look into the often misunderstood world of otaku. Dozens of lively, colorful images—from portraits of the interview subjects to manga illustrations, film stills and photos of places mentioned in the text—pop up throughout the book, making The Otaku Encyclopedia as entertaining to read as it is informative.
Otaku
Otaku - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Otaku write by Hiroki Azuma. This book was released on 2009. Otaku available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
Fandom Unbound
Fandom Unbound - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fandom Unbound write by Mizuko Ito. This book was released on 2012-02-28. Fandom Unbound available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as “geek'—an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, including anime, manga, and video games. Most important of all, as this collection shows, is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content. In this collection of essays, Japanese and American scholars offer richly detailed descriptions of how this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture created its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction, comics, costumes, and remixes, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media. By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, this groundbreaking collection provides fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
