Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo

Abstract

If you're into (and manga), there's no place like Neo Here otaku dress-up cos-play style for real, 100,000+ fans attend cons to buy trade, soundtracks are performed in concert halls. Neo Tokyo is where has become both urban fashion and cultural zeitgeist, 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 how to cruise. Four-color, with maps index. Patrick Macias, a specialist in Asian film Japanese pop culture, is the author of TokyoScope. Tomohiro Machiyama is a movie critic journalist who writes 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 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 Journal

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