Oh wow, I wasn’t aware of THAT phrase. There are a lot of great books about otaku culture… that doesn’t meet the standard.
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I reviewed that book a long time ago - it was a weird combination of useful, fun infodump about Japan, and awful pronouncements about "the Japanese mind." Where the heck was the editor, was my thought.
aug 30, 2025, 5:34 pm • 4 0 • view
I don’t remember having an issue with the nerdy content, but everything else about that book seemed so wrong in almost an old-fashioned way. Like that the Japanese “think in a different way from us….their minds work on the basis of images.”
aug 30, 2025, 5:45 pm • 3 0 • view
I mean, who would write that in this day and age? And why would a respectable publisher like Tuttle release it?
aug 30, 2025, 5:47 pm • 2 0 • view
it was really bizarre and awful. honestly I don't know what's up with Tuttle - I was just chatting elsewhere about how the manga they are publishing lately also makes me think "where the heck was the editor?" to the extent that I just won't read them anymore.
aug 30, 2025, 5:55 pm • 3 0 • view
and yes maybe I'm extra fussy because I edit manga for a living but come on - Tuttle! They should know what they're doing!
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