{"id":877,"date":"2004-12-15T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2020-11-05T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:05:39","slug":"neotokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"neo-tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">rock thru neo-tokyo with the new book <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,66020,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cruising the anime city<\/a> 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 <i>mandarake<\/i> superstore\u2026where everybodys dressed as a <i>sailor moon<\/i> character, electronics center akihabara, and the yokohama marine tower shown in <i>macross<\/i>. woo\u2026word\u2019em 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">most will probably not get the fanaticism of japanese pop culture, and i personally couldnt (wouldnt) ever jump off <i>that<\/i> deep end, but as macias explains, \u201c<i>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.<\/i>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,66020,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4\" target=\"_blank\">cruising the anime city<\/a> (via wired)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/real_gundam1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/real_gundam1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/real_gundam1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/real_gundam1-250x154.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/real_gundam1-293x180.jpg 293w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/real_gundam1-488x300.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2026where everybodys dressed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-shit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7871,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}