"American Patrick Macias and Japanese Tomohiro Machiyama are your super team-up guides to this alternate pop culture dimension next door, dropping anecdotes that will make you gape and treasure maps to stores that will make you start booking your airline tickets now. Read it if you dare!"
Carl Gustav Horn, coauthor, Japan Edge: The Insider's Guide to Japanese Pop Subculture
"This is the easiest, cheapest, and safest way to cruise into the maniac's world."
Junko Mizuno, artist and author of Cinderalla and Pure Trance
What is the Anime City? It is Neo Tokyo, a modern metropolis whose soul has been rewired into a pulsing monster machine of pure pop culture. Where on every corner you may see a cosplay gal, a Bishojo gamer, a Gachapon collector, a Morning Musume idol worshipper, a dojinshi artist, or just an older otaku enslaved by that gooey Japanese sentiment known as moe. Confused? Intrigued? Learn to navigate Neo Tokyo right here, with this, the Anime City's first street-smart guide in English. Plus detailed finder maps of shops at Nakano Broadway (home of manga mecca Mandarake) and Akihabara's ""Electric Town,"" with transportation tips and a survey of the colossal Comiket anime/manga/dojinshi convention.
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
144 pp, 7 X 9"
100+ color photos, maps
paperbound
ISBN 1-880656-88-4
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