"Originally published in Japanese as Dobutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso.
Translated from the Japanese.
Preface 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.
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Otaku : Japan's database animals by Hiroki Azuma. ISBN 9780816653522. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
