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Author: HowExpert Publisher: HowExpert ISBN: 1647587395 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 42
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If you're like many people just getting into anime and manga, you may be wondering how to fit the Japanese Otaku culture into your life. This book is specially designed to help you get into the Otaku Culture in an informative manner. Written by an industry worker and enthusiast, this book is professionally made to give you accurate information about Japanese culture. Otaku 101: An Introductory Guide to the Otaku Pop Culture, Anime, Manga, and More! will answer many of the questions that you may have about this unique fandom and what it entails: ● What are the different genres of manga and anime? ● Why does anime only take place in high school? ● How can I prevent a con and not be scammed on collectibles? ● How can I save money anime merchandise? ● What do I need to know before my first Cosplay convention? Everything you ever needed to know to get started as an Otaku is right in this quick and easy-to-read book! Each chapter is dedicated to covering a hot subject that even some of the most knowledgeable fans may not fully know. This book also makes the perfect gift if you’re trying to explain Otakudom to a friend or family member! About the Expert Jessica became interested in Otaku culture as a child and even studied Japanese culture during her schooling. As an adult, she works as a professional journalist in both the anime and video game industries.Thanks to this, she has learned a lot about the culture surrounding Japanese media, as well as researched the social aspects of the communities she works with. In her personal time, she help push the communities she loves, and she help others find themselves by experiencing new forms of media. In her spare time, she also likes to partake in the community and enjoys studying different cultures. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.
Author: HowExpert Publisher: HowExpert ISBN: 1647587395 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 42
Book Description
If you're like many people just getting into anime and manga, you may be wondering how to fit the Japanese Otaku culture into your life. This book is specially designed to help you get into the Otaku Culture in an informative manner. Written by an industry worker and enthusiast, this book is professionally made to give you accurate information about Japanese culture. Otaku 101: An Introductory Guide to the Otaku Pop Culture, Anime, Manga, and More! will answer many of the questions that you may have about this unique fandom and what it entails: ● What are the different genres of manga and anime? ● Why does anime only take place in high school? ● How can I prevent a con and not be scammed on collectibles? ● How can I save money anime merchandise? ● What do I need to know before my first Cosplay convention? Everything you ever needed to know to get started as an Otaku is right in this quick and easy-to-read book! Each chapter is dedicated to covering a hot subject that even some of the most knowledgeable fans may not fully know. This book also makes the perfect gift if you’re trying to explain Otakudom to a friend or family member! About the Expert Jessica became interested in Otaku culture as a child and even studied Japanese culture during her schooling. As an adult, she works as a professional journalist in both the anime and video game industries.Thanks to this, she has learned a lot about the culture surrounding Japanese media, as well as researched the social aspects of the communities she works with. In her personal time, she help push the communities she loves, and she help others find themselves by experiencing new forms of media. In her spare time, she also likes to partake in the community and enjoys studying different cultures. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.
Author: Patrick W. Galbraith Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 147800701X Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 249
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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.
Author: Rayna Denison Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472576764 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 201
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Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its generic landscape. From the battling robots that define the mecha genre through to Studio Ghibli's dominant genre-brand of plucky shojo (young girl) characters, this book charts the rise of anime as a globally significant category of animation. It further thinks through the differences between anime's local and global genres: from the less-considered niches like nichijo-kei (everyday style anime) through to the global popularity of science fiction anime, this book tackles the tensions between the markets and audiences for anime texts. Anime is consequently understood in this book as a complex cultural phenomenon: not simply a “genre,” but as an always shifting and changing set of texts. Its inherent changeability makes anime an ideal contender for global dissemination, as it can be easily re-edited, translated and then newly understood as it moves through the world's animation markets. As such, Anime: A Critical Introduction explores anime through a range of debates that have emerged around its key film texts, through discussions of animation and violence, through debates about the cyborg and through the differences between local and global understandings of anime products. Anime: A Critical Introduction uses these debates to frame a different kind of understanding of anime, one rooted in contexts, rather than just texts. In this way, Anime: A Critical Introduction works to create a space in which we can rethink the meanings of anime as it travels around the world.
Author: Chantale Pard Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538130734 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 195
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"Pard has created an indispensable guide for all anime clubs." Library Journal, Starred Review Anime (or “Japanese Animation”) has seen a continuing rise in popularity over the past decade of North American pop culture. Droves of die-hard, dedicated fans can be found all over comic shops, conventions, and social media at large, discussing or debating the merits of their favorite Anime fandoms. Public libraries have been quick to catch on, and have long been an excellent gathering place for this community of passionate consumers – be it for movie screenings or anime and manga collection offerings. With the recent widespread adoption of English dubbed content and the explosion of Anime merchandise sales outside of Japan, Anime and Manga are more accessible to North Americans than ever before. In addition to providing a long list of programming examples and ideas, this practical guide will teach librarians how to capture the interest of this fandom community, why the library is the perfect place to do so, and how to expand this thematic programming into further learning and socialization opportunities. Special Features include: Real examples of current and successful Anime Club programs created by librarians. Anime: It’s Not Just “Cartoons”! Discovering opportunities for youth engagement, STEM learning, and vital youth socialization within Japanese Animation. Clear, concise instructions for incorporating one off or series Anime events for all budget ranges and age groups. How to avoid cultural appropriation by engaging your community to make the most out of possible partnerships and resources. Anime Club party plans for a wide range of different holidays. How to obtain public performance rights for anime screenings, Where to find inclusive anime representations of diverse communities
Author: Andrew C. McKevitt Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469634481 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 289
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This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the "yellow peril," and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.
Author: Steven T. Brown Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1403983089 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 246
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This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with animé's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies of the end of history. The contributors dismantle the distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of animé and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global.
Author: Mizuko Ito Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300158645 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 353
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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.
Author: Hector Garcia Publisher: Tuttle Publishing ISBN: 1462920020 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 197
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Created specifically for fans of Japanese "cool culture," A Geek in Japan is one of the most iconic, hip, and concise cultural guides available. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded with new chapters on Japanese video games, architecture, and a special section on visiting Kyoto. Reinvented for the internet age, it's packed with personal essays and hundreds of photographs, presenting all the touchstones of both traditional and contemporary culture in an entirely new way. The expansive range of topics include: Bushido, Geisha, Samurai, Shintoism, and Buddhism Traditional arts and disciplines like Ukiyo-e, Ikebana, Zen meditation, calligraphy, martial arts, and the tea ceremony Insightful essays on code words and social mores; dating and drinking rituals; working and living conditions and symbols and practices that are peculiarly Japanese Japanese pop culture genres and their subcultures, like otaku, gals, visual kei, and cosplay For visitors, the author includes a mini guide to his favorite neighborhoods in Tokyo as well as tips on special places of interest in other parts of Japan. Garcia has written an irreverent, insightful, and highly informative guide for the growing ranks of Japanophiles around the world.
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