Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

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.

• Author
• Hiroki Azuma, Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 200

• Publisher
• Univ Of Minnesota Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780816653522

• Genres
• japan, anime, cultural, philosophy, sociology, manga, theory, criticism

• Release date
• 2009