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Mondo Tokyo : dispatches from a secret Japan /

"Tokyo, in the early aughts, was a weird place. Lonely single men wanted to marry action figures instead of women. High school girls worked at maid cafes and were paid to act like Manga characters. Nightclubs filled with kids in anime cosplay who danced to remixed versions of cartoon theme song...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macias, Patrick, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Sutherland House, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Popular culture > Japan > Tokyo.
Culture populaire > Japon > Tōkyō.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • TOKYO A GO-GO
  • The ballad of Dasai Gaijin
  • Tales of the Psychic Snake
  • Boys' Love Café
  • Memo from the Maid Wars
  • It is Only One Flower in the World
  • Female Android at Tokyo Department Store Looks for Love
  • Eye-Popping Robot Girls Restaurant Opens in Tokyo!
  • Tower Records Shibuya: No Music, No Life
  • SCENES FROM THE OTAKU-VERSE
  • Life and Death in an Otaku Paradise
  • The Shokotan Tapes: An Interview with Shoko Nakagawa
  • The World's Oldest Living Otaku: Twenty-Five Years of Fred Patten
  • The Death of a Producer: Arrivederci, Yoshinobu Nishizaki
  • The Wild Frountier
  • A Bonkura Life
  • The Best Otaku Shops in Tokyo
  • More Anime, More Problems: An Interview with Terumi Nishii, Taking It to the StreetsL The Otaku Reclaim Akihabara
  • Leiji Matsumoto: Time Never Betrays a Dream
  • THREADS
  • The Men of Host Knuckle
  • Little Devil Swallowtail Butterflies: The Girls of Koakuma Ageha
  • Shibuya 109-2 Elegy
  • Made in Japan: Harajuku Fashion Brands
  • On "Aymmy in the batty girls" and the Retro Adventures of Ayumi Seto
  • Harajuku Burger Queen: An Interview with Ayumi Seto
  • GODAO: Fashion in the Dark
  • Sebastian Musuda and the 6% DOKIDOKI: Coldorful Anarchy
  • TUNES AND VIBES
  • The Feminine
  • The Roots of J-Pop: Ten Bands to Explore
  • Shinjuku Freakbeat
  • R.I.P. (Rest in Pixar) Perfume
  • On "PONPONPON"
  • Making a Virtual Idol: A conversation with the Creator of Hatsune Miku
  • Masked Marvels: The Strange World of Kamen Joshi
  • Idolized
  • AKB48: Smells like Teen Spirit
  • Eiichi Ohiaki: The Wizard of City Pop
  • MONSTERS OF THE SCREEN
  • Directing with Napalm: The Ryuhei Kitamura Interview
  • We Will Be Rambo
  • We Are the Japanese Fantasy Film Society: Kaiju 'Zines circa 1980
  • Outlaw Obituary: On Bunta Sugawara, 1933-2014
  • The Harajuka Line: Forgotten Fashion Monsters of Japanese V-Cinema
  • My Top Fice Godzilla Moview
  • Shuji Tereyama's Notes from Underground
  • Kaiju Rapsody
  • Tetsuro Tamba: The Prince of the East
  • Sony Chiba: The Last Action Hero
  • Kumi Mizuno: The Bride of Godzilla
  • Epilogue
  • Author Biography.