Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo Export

@book{citeulike:4403994, abstract = {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 Journal\_}, author = {Macias, Patrick and Machiyama, Tomohiro}, citeulike-article-id = {4403994}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/1880656884}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&path=ASIN/1880656884}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike06-21&path=ASIN/1880656884}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.amazon.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/1880656884}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1880656884/citeulike00-21}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/1880656884}, citeulike-linkout-6 = {http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/1880656884}, citeulike-linkout-7 = {http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1880656884}, citeulike-linkout-8 = {http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=1880656884&index=books&linkCode=qs}, citeulike-linkout-9 = {http://www.librarything.com/isbn/1880656884}, day = {01}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {1880656884}, keywords = {japanstudies, popculture}, month = {November}, posted-at = {2009-04-25 18:53:20}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Stone Bridge Press}, title = {Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/1880656884}, year = {2004} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:4403994 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4403994 N2 - 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 Journal_ SN - 1880656884 TI - Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo PB - Stone Bridge Press KW - japanstudies KW - popculture AU - Macias, Patrick AU - Machiyama, Tomohiro PY - 2004/11/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/1880656884 ER -