Episode 561 – The Otaku, Part 3
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In the final episode of this series: how did “otaku culture” spread overseas when it was so stigmatized at home, and what can all this tell us about Japan in the post-bubble era?
Sources
Kinsella, Sharon. “Japanese Subculture in the 1990s: Otaku and the Amateur Manga Movement.” Journal of Japanese Studies 24, No 2 (Summer 1998)
Eng, Lawrence, “Strategies of Engagement: Discovering, Defining, and Describing Otaku Culture in the United States” and “Anime and Manga Fandom as Networked Culture” in Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World. Ed. Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Izumi Tsuji.
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