Japanamerica: Otaku Meet Manga Man in Tokyo
The otaku everywhere have begun their grumbling: They’re saying that the success of Japan’s popular culture–anime, manga, food, booze, design and fashion–has turned Akihabara, anime’s former nerve center in Tokyo, into another Disneyland. Tourists dominate the former home of the native otaku–the uber-geeks who gleefully fetishize pop culture merchandise at the expense of virtually everything else in their lives.
Roland Kelts files another report from Tokyo for 3:AM.
Trois Communiqu és
I rendered ‘documentary fiction’ as a psychogeographic tendency. I took out maps and located all three. The map in the final end was started from scratch on blank wallpaper. I sketched it out using different coloured sticks. As always Gavin Everall had done the right job. This was the kind of slog books are for. Books to get inside your ventricles, hobble your blood streams, clog you up a bit. There’s something here to court a demise, where all your instincts for cleansing, cutting, knowing, dissecting emerges in the pure wee scratch of humourless autopsy.
Karen Elliot reviews Alun Rowlands‘ 3 Communiqu és.