[lbo-talk] Japanese TV show turns lense on American fanboy tourists

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu May 4 03:18:58 PDT 2006


http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/05/otaku-from-usa.html

[Video above.]

US anime and manga fanatics, role playing geeks, gamers, etc., quite often conceive of Japan as the mecca of their fanboy-ishness.

This Japanes TV show focuses on these "otakus" (as they're aparently called in Japan) -- nerdy American tourists who come to Japan to stock up on Japanese anime/manga/etc. kitsch.

-B.



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