基本説明
Your cruise guides are Patrick Macias, a specialist in Asian film and Japanese pop culture and author of Tokyoscope, and Tomohiro Machiyama, a movie critic and journalist who helped popularize the word "otaku." MANGA A brief history, where to get deals, where to while away the hours reading / TOYS For collectors, from Gachapon to life-size dolls / IDOLS Can they sing? Who cares! A guide to worship and trinket purchase / ANIME Inside Toei studios, plus film "locations"around town / GAMES From pachinko and porno to cellphone scams / MOVIES Where to find flicks old and new / COSPLAY (costume play) watching anime and become anime, with veteran cosplayer Jan Kurotaki / PLAMO (plastic model) How the greatest Japanese collector ever turned his obsession into a job.
Full Description
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. Both authors live in the San Francisco Bay Area. "Useful guide for pop-culture tourists, it's stil an enjoyable read even if you never visit Tokyo." -- Fortean Times "The perfect accessory for geeks who've saved up enough for a plane ticket to Japan and a few hundred thousand yen of walking-around money." -- Wired "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!" -- Library JournalNER(01): GB
