Our last episode of 2024 is also the first episode in a series on one of Japan’s most distinctive cultural phenomenons: otaku culture. This week: is the idea of being an “otaku” older than we think?
Sources
Azuma, Hiroki. Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals. Trans. Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
Ito, Mizuko. “Introduction” and Izumi Tsuji, “Why Study Train Otaku? A Social History of Imagination” in Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World. Ed. Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Izumi Tsuji.
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