Foreword - May the G-Force Be with You - Atom Boys - The Business of Anime - Toy Story - Japan's IP Problem - Strange Transformations - Cosplay and Otakudom: The Draw of DIY - Future Shocks - Anime Appeals
ROLAND KELTS is an Editor of the Tokyo and New York-based Paper Sky magazine, and Co-editor of the forthcoming literary journal, A Public Space. His articles, essays, and stories have been published in Playboy, The Village Voice, Newsday, Cosmopolitan, The Asahi Shimbun, among others. He currently splits his time between New York and Tokyo.
"Embrace the world of "otaku" in Roland Kelts' comprehensive study
of how Japanese pop culture enchanted the West, from "Speed Racer"
and "Pokémon" to cosplay and "hentai" manga."
--"Wired" magazine
""Japanamerica" offers an intriguing picture of anime's
import..."
"--The ""Boston"" Globe"
"Like a "Wired" magazine article on steroids, "Japanamerica" segues
between street-cred observation and bullish corporate discourse.
Kelts's analysis is more nuanced than that of a typical otaku ...
[and] "Japanamerica" is a broad primer; if you're seeking
investment opportunities, it's practically a prospectus."
--"The Village Voice"
"Kelts has a sharp grasp of his subject and is on sure
ground..."
"--Publisher's Weekly""" ""Japanamerica" is the book I have
been waiting for. It tells the incredible story of the way
the colorful and eccentric world of Japanese entertainment and
popular art has enriched our lives in the West. But it
also
""Japanamerica" is the book I have been waiting for. It tells the
incredible story of the way the colorful and eccentric world of
Japanese entertainment and popular art has enriched our lives in
the West. But it also deals with why it has a poetry that has taken
Americans many years to understand and feel able to echo. Japan's
holocaust was equally traumatic to the ones experienced by many
Americans, and perhaps more sudden, more extreme and more focused.
This story shows how today we all use movies, comics, music, art
and advertising to face our past and its traumas, rather than to
escape. The Japanese methods of facing the past are restrained and
unusual, but ultimately glorious, and mean more to us in our
post-9/11 era than ever they could before. Roland Kelts, part
American, part Japanese, brings real insight to the way this union
of hearts and souls through entertainment will continue to grow and
draw two very different worlds together."
--Pete Townshend, The Who "Roland Kelts sees deeply and writes
elegantly; he gives us a unique and powerful vision of Japanese and
Western culture."--Daniel Bergner, author of "In the Land of Magic
Soldiers" and "God of the Rodeo"""
"Roland Kelts is a keen observer of both American and Japanese pop
culture, placing him in a unique position to discuss the rise of
anime in America and the West." --Martha McPhee, author of "Bright
Angel Time""" "The brain of Roland Kelts is not only a brilliant
interpreter of places where Japanese and American culture meet, it
is also one such important place."--Matthew Sharpe, author of" "the
NBC book club selection, "The Sleeping Father," and "Nothing
isTerrible," "Stories from the Tube,"" "and the forthcoming"
Jamestown: A Novel""" "As the step-mother of an anime-crazed teen,
I read "Japanamerica "curious to understand the obsession. What I
didn't expect was that Roland Kelts's intelligent and precise
observations would shed so much light on my own cultural
experience."--Adrienne Brodeur, author of "Man Camp," Founding
Editor of "Zoetrope: All-Story""" ""Japanamerica "provides insight
into the collision of Eastern and Western pop culture, and the
aftermath that is this cutting edge phenomenom known as
Anime."--Joe Hahn, Linkin Park "Embrace the world of "otaku" in
Roland Kelts' comprehensive study of how Japanese pop culture
enchanted the West, from "Speed Racer" and "Poke mon" to cosplay
and "hentai" manga."--"Wired" magazine
"Like a "Wired" magazine article on steroids, "Japanamerica" segues
between street-cred observation and bullish corporate discourse.
Kelts's analysis is more nuanced than that of a typical otaku ...
[and] "Japanamerica" is a broad primer; if you're seeking
investment opportunities, it's practically a prospectus."
--"The Village Voice"
"Roland Kelts sees deeply and writes elegantly; he gives us a
unique and powerful vision of Japanese and Western
culture."--Daniel Bergner, author of "In the Land of Magic
Soldiers" and "God of the Rodeo"
"Roland Kelts is a keen observer of both American and Japanese pop
culture, placing him in a unique position to discuss the rise of
anime in America and the West." --Martha McPhee, author of "Bright
Angel Time""The brain of Roland Kelts is not only a brilliant
interpreter of places where Japanese and American culture meet, it
is also one such important place."--Matthew Sharpe, author of" "the
NBC book club selection, "The Sleeping Father," and "Nothing is
Terrible," "Stories from the Tube,"" "and the forthcoming"
Schmelding: An Authorized Biography""As the step-mother of an
anime-crazed teen, I read "Japanamerica "curious to understand the
obsession. What I didn't expect was that Roland Kelts's intelligent
and precise observations would shed so much light on my own
cultural experience."--Adrienne Brodeur, author of "Man Camp,"
Founding Editor of "Zoetrope: All-Story"""Japanamerica "provides
insight into the collision of Eastern and Western pop culture, and
the aftermath that is this cutting edge phenomenom known as
Anime."--Joe Hahn, Linkin Park
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