{"id":4513,"date":"2009-07-25T02:36:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2010-01-14T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:35:49","slug":"the-otaktu-encylopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/07\/25\/the-otaktu-encylopedia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Otaktu Encylopedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-otaku\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blogotaku.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-otaku\" width=\"244\" height=\"350\" align=\"right\" \/>I was checking out the Kinokuniya web site and saw that they had an interesting book on sale: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp\/guest\/cgi-bin\/bookseaohb.cgi?ISBN=4770031017&amp;AREA=04\">The Otaku Encylopedia<\/a>\u201d. I think Matt would love this sort of thing. Me, I just may pick it up for laughs.:)<\/p>\n<p>Book description from the Kinokuniya web site:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<em>The Otaku Encyclopedia<\/em> offers fascinating insight into the subculture of Cool Japan. With over 600 entries, including common expressions, people, places, and moments of <em>otaku<\/em> history, this is the essential A to Z of facts every Japanese pop-culture fan needs to know. Author Patrick W. Galbraith has spent several years researching deep into the <em>otaku<\/em> heartland and his intimate knowledge of the subject gives the reader an insider&#8217;s guide to words such as <em>moe<\/em>, <em>doujinshi<\/em>, cosplay and maid cafes. Dozens of lively, colorful images -from portraits of the interview subjects to manga illustrations, film stills and photos of places mentioned in the text &#8211; pop up throughout the book, making <em>The Otaku Encyclopedia<\/em> as entertaining to read as it is informative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just got to wait for the next 20% member discount sale.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out the Kinokuniya web site and saw that they had an interesting book on sale: \u201cThe Otaku Encylopedia\u201d. I think Matt would love this sort of thing. Me, I just may pick it up for laughs.:) Book<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/07\/25\/the-otaktu-encylopedia\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  The Otaktu Encylopedia<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-books","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}