LEADER 02954oam 2200577 450 001 9910823296603321 005 20230721005655.0 010 $a9780816668007$belectronic book 010 $a0816668000$belectronic book 035 $a(CKB)2550000000005126 035 $a(EBL)471757 035 $a(OCoLC)527737445 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341177 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284315 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341177 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10390290 035 $a(PQKB)11159688 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC471757 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL471757 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10353997 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000005126 100 $a20080916d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOtaku $eJapan's database animals /$fHiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono 205 $a[English ed.]. 210 1$aMinneapolis :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (176 pages) 300 $a"Originally published in Japanese as Do?butsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Ko?dansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso. 300 $aTranslated from the Japanese. 311 08$aPrint version : 9780816653515 0-8166-5351-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 117-139) and index. 327 $aPreface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma -- Translators' introduction -- What is otaku culture? -- The otaku's pseudo-Japan -- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality. 330 $aIn Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970's, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, one of Japan's leading public intellectuals, otaku culture... 606 $aSubculture$zJapan 606 $aPopular culture$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xCivilization$y1945- 615 0$aSubculture 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a306/.10952 700 $aAzuma$b Hiroki$f1971-$01596997 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823296603321 996 $aOtaku$93918580 997 $aUNINA