Editors: Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Izumi Tsuji
Publisher: Yale University Press (New Haven, CT)
ISBN: 978-0-300-15864-9
Contents:
- Ito, Mizuki. Introduction (pp. xi-xxxi).
Essays on anime, manga, and related topics:
- Azuma, Hiroki. Database animals (pp. 30-67).
This chapter previously appeared in English as a section in Azuma, Hiroki (2009) Japan’s database animals (pp. 25-62). - Eng, Lawrence. Strategies of engagement: Discovering, defining and describing otaku culture in the United States (pp. 85-104).
- Tamagawa, Hiroaki. Comic Market as a space for self-expression in otaku culture (pp. 107-132).
- Morikawa, Kaichiro. Otaku and the city: The rebirth of Akihabara (pp. 133-157).
- Eng, Lawrence. Anime and manga fandom as networked culture (pp. 158-178).
- Ito, Mizuko. Contributors versus leechers: Fansubbing ethics and a hybrid public culture (pp. 179-204).
- Okabe, Daisuke, & Ishida, Kimi. Making fujoshi identity visible and invisible (pp. 207-224).
- Okabe, Daisuke. Cosplay, learning, and cultural practice (pp. 208-248).
- Ito, Mizuko. “As long as it’s not Linkin Park Z“: Popularity, distinction, and status in the AMV subculture (pp. 275-298).
Other essays:
- Tsumi, Izuji. Why study train otaku? A social history of imagination (pp. 3-29).
- Kitada, Akihiro. Japan’s cynical nationalism (pp. 68-84).
- Kijima, Yoshimasa. The fighting gamer otaku community: What are they “fighting” about? (pp. 249-274).
Reviews:
- Noppe, Nele (2015). Transformative Works and Cultures, 18.