rock thru neo-tokyo with the new book cruising the anime city by patrick macias and tomohiro machiyama. wired has an interesting article on the new definitive guide to otaku-ness and manga/anima obsession while roaming thru the streets of tokyo. it points you in the direction of such locales as the mandarake superstore…where everybodys dressed as a sailor moon character, electronics center akihabara, and the yokohama marine tower shown in macross. woo…word’em up. its not only a guide to the fanatical, but also an homage to the pervasiveness of the pop culture. dig the life-size gundam yo.
most will probably not get the fanaticism of japanese pop culture, and i personally couldnt (wouldnt) ever jump off that deep end, but as macias explains, “there are people in the book who are astronauts of the imagination. they are far out there. i think the rest of the world could stand to do that a little, too.“
> cruising the anime city (via wired)
