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Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Modern Japan. By Patrick W. Galbraith. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. 325 pp. ISBN: 9781478006299 (cloth).

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Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Modern Japan. By Patrick W. Galbraith. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. 325 pp. ISBN: 9781478006299 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2020

E. Taylor Atkins*
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Northern Illinois University
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020

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1 Condry, Ian, “B-Boys and B-Girls: Rap Fandom and Consumer Culture in Japan,” in Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan, ed. Kelly, William W. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004), 20, 29Google Scholar.

2 Zara Shabir, “Toxic Fans Are Ruining It for the Rest of Us: What Is It about Fictional Characters That Turns People into Complete Fanatics?,” The Tempest, June 29, 2019, https://thetempest.co/2019/06/29/entertainment/toxic-fans/ (accessed July 13, 2020).