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Japan Edge: The Insider's Guide to Japanese Pop Subculture
by Mason Jones, Patrick Macias, Yuji Oniki, Carl Gustav Horn

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Author: Carl Gustav Horn, Mason Jones, Patrick Macias, Yuji Oniki
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-07-06
ISBN: 1569313458
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

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Book Review: Japan Edge
Summary: 3 Stars

This book covers several subjects of 'sub-culture' in/from Japan: Manga, Anime, Film, Music and Noise Music. For the veteran of any of these fields this book will be a quick review of fond memories while you comfortably nod your head to the 'nostalgia' it may raise in you. This book chronicles each subject's era it covers quite well and is a good guide for anyone with an interest in putting together a time-line of where their individual interest lie in the whole scheme of things...so being a 'veteran' of some of these subjects, I've found myself happily enjoying it's content and have passed some of it on to friends who have had questions about the wider spectrum of what has already transpired and who's who in a given subject of Manga, Anime, Film, Music or Noise Music from Japan. This book is designed well and feels like a Japanese book for full effect. I recommend this book to almost all interested in these subjects, except maybe an 'Otaku' of these subjects. However, if you're thinking this book is a 'travel guide' it is not. It is more of a contemporary history of the recent past and events. Enjoy.

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