Otaku Blue - Volume 2 - Obsessions

Otaku Blue - Volume 2 - Obsessions
Author: Richard Marazano
Publisher: Europe Comics
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2019-06-12T00:00:00+02:00
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Asami is missing. The Tokyo police have their hands full with a serial killer, so two people set out to find her: her boyfriend, aspiring j-horror filmmaker Kotaro, and her new girlfriend, cosplayer Maiko. Trouble is, he thinks she's shallow, and she thinks he's a stuck-up bore. The grudging team-up is getting nowhere fast, but neither are Inspector Arakawa and his young protégé Ryohei with their case. Still, Arakawa's been through enough darkness in his own life to know the city sometimes discloses patterns linking the most disparate events in the unlikeliest of ways. Can he perceive the pattern in time?

The Way of the Runner

The Way of the Runner
Author: Adharanand Finn
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0571303188

Welcome to Japan, the most running-obsessed nation on earth, where: a long-distance relay race is the country's biggest annual sporting event; companies sponsor their own running teams, paying the athletes like employees; and marathon monks run a thousand marathons in a thousand days to reach spiritual enlightenment. Adharanand Finn - award-winning author of Running with the Kenyans - moved to Japan to discover more about this unique running culture and what it might teach us about the sport and about Japan. As an amateur runner about to turn forty, he also hoped find out whether the Japanese approach to training might help him keep improving. What he learned - about competition, about team work, about beating your personal bests, about form and about himself - will fascinate anyone who is keen to explore why we run, and how we might do it better.

The Obsessed

The Obsessed
Author: gestalten
Publisher: Gestalten
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-02-24
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9783967040081

The book will delve into the world of Japanese subcultures and the obsessive approach that many people take to their hobbies, passions and lifestyle choices. Japanese Subcultures will contain photos and texts - such as potentially profiles, essays or features - of a diverse range of Otaku and other fans and followers of different subcultures, and will unveil what is behind these obsessions and what makes these people tick.

The Obsession

The Obsession
Author: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 172821517X

A fast-paced teen revenge-thriller from the author of Dial A for Aunties, The Obsession will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very end. Boy Meets Girl. Boy Stalks Girl. Girl Gets Revenge. Logan thinks he and Delilah are meant to be. Delilah doesn't know who Logan is. Logan believes no one knows Delilah like him. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can by watching her through a hidden camera. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called "romantic". Delilah is keeping secrets though, deadly ones. There's so much more to her than meets the eye. Logan is determined to make Delilah the heroine in his twisted fantasy and he'll do anything to get what he wants. Delilah is done with the men in her life controlling her. If Logan won't let her go...she'll make him. "Sutanto has crafted a page-turning work of suspense that questions the line between romantic 'research' and stalking in the age of the internet, analyzing the roles played by abuse, misogyny, racism, and violence in contemporary relationships."—Booklist "Set against a Northern California private school backdrop, the sensational plot is riddled with twists that come at a furious pace...A suspenseful page-turner."—Kirkus Reviews "This tense, quick-moving thriller is also a thought-provoking story about the different shapes of abuse. Fans of high-drama fiction with a dark edge, like Karen McManus's One of Us Is Lying or Gretchen McNeil's #murdertrending, will be hooked."—School Library Journal

The Anime Companion 2

The Anime Companion 2
Author: Gilles Poitras
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1880656965

Become an expert on cultural details commonly seen in Japanese animation, movies, comics and TV shows.

The Soul of Anime

The Soul of Anime
Author: Ian Condry
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822397552

In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios—such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio Ghibli—Condry discusses how anime's fictional characters and worlds become platforms for collaborative creativity. He argues that the global success of Japanese animation has grown out of a collective social energy that operates across industries—including those that produce film, television, manga (comic books), and toys and other licensed merchandise—and connects fans to the creators of anime. For Condry, this collective social energy is the soul of anime.

So Cute It Hurts!!, Vol. 1

So Cute It Hurts!!, Vol. 1
Author: Go Ikeyamada
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1421584565

But Mego can’t rely on just her book smarts in Mitsuru’s all-boys, delinquents’ paradise of a high school. And Mitsuru finds life as a high school girl to be much more complicated than he expected! -- VIZ Media

Otaku

Otaku
Author: Hiroki Azuma
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816653518

Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Roots and Wings

Roots and Wings
Author: gestalten
Publisher: Gestalten
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9783967040333

Steering one of the world's largest carmakers into the future, one man is taking an artistic and audacious approach to mobility. This is his story.

Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches

Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches
Author: Mairi Kidd
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Scotland
ISBN: 9781785302367

This book begins with a challenge. Take a five-year-old girl growing up in Scotland in 2019. Where might you find Scottish women to inspire her? The further back in history you go, the more of a struggle it becomes. Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches aims to right this wrong. Here are women selected for their wit, wisdom and wickedness, plus the inspiration a modern woman - whether young, old or in between - might take from their experience.