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Otaku: Japan's Database Animals
2001 nonfiction book
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (Japanese: 動物化するポストモダン：オタクから見た日本社会, Hepburn: Dōbutsuka-suru Postmodern: Otaku kara mita Nihon Shakai) is a nonfiction essay that relates otaku culture to postmodernism. It was published by Hiroki Azuma in 2001, and translated into English by the University of Minnesota Press in 2009. Azuma released a sequel in March 2007 titled Birth of Game-like Realism: Japan's Database Animals II (ゲーム的リアリズムの誕生~動物化するポストモダン2).
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