Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo FROM THE PUBLISHER
If you're into anime (and manga), there's no place like Neo Tokyo. Here otaku dress-up cos-play style for real, 100,000+ fans attend cons to buy and trade, and anime soundtracks are performed in concert halls. Neo Tokyo is where anime has become both urban fashion and cultural zeitgeist, and this is its first street-smart guide in English. Featuring interviews with tastemakers, it covers studios, toys, museums, games, film "locations," music, plus where to hang and how to cruise. Four-color, with maps and index.
Patrick Macias, a specialist in Asian film and Japanese pop culture, is the author of TokyoScope.
Tomohiro Machiyama is a movie critic and journalist who writes and publishes in Japan.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Pop culture writer Macias and journalist Machiyama navigate Tokyo with dry humor and cultural insight-and with an eye out for the dirty bits along the way. Examining the pop-saturated city through the eyes of an otaku (roughly defined as a manic fan of anime), we coast through chapters on manga, toys, idols, anime, games, movies, cosplay, pla-mo, and a survey of the Comiket convention. Maps of the main shops and off-the-beaten-path gems, definitions of the terms that pepper otaku-speak, and entertaining analyses of the surreal, fetishistic, and dysfunctional subcultures that populate the streets intrigue and inform. Background knowledge or interest would be very handy in perusing this book-although there are plenty of novel and bizarre anecdotes and tidbits that make for eyebrow-raising reading. From the virtual girlfriend and hardcore girl games to adult manga and anime, Macias and Machiyama don't shy from the prurient interests entangled with the fantasies. Although not for the easily disturbed, for every other anime fan/dilettante with a desire to visit, Cruising the Anime City is fun, fun, fun!-Ann Kim, Library Journal Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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