WIRED: Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex

This is the cover of November '07 Issue of WIRED magazine
To read the cover story:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga


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2007 New York Anime Festival Photos

and cosplay here:

One day in Akihabara

Akihabara, aka Akiba, is the paradise for otaku in Tokyo.
The following link is going to take us to a photo blog of Akiba.
This is the first day of Comiket (comic market) festival last winter. There were 140 thousands attendees that day. After attending the festival, a lot of otaku walked around the street in Akiba...

http://www.akibablog.net/archives/2007/12/c73-akiba-071230.html


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Fan Fictions

Fan Fictions is literally fictions written by fans.
In English websites, the categories of fan fictions could range from TV shows (such as The X Files) to movies, cartoons. Obviously, the category of anime/manga is now a very popular one.

Link to fan fictions:
FanFiction.Net

Otaku

“The otaku, the passionate obsessive, the information age's embodiment of the connoisseur, more concerned with the accumulation of data than of objects, seems a natural crossover figure in today's interface of British and Japanese cultures. I see it in the eyes of the Portobello dealers, and in the eyes of the Japanese collectors: a perfectly calm train-spotter frenzy, murderous and sublime. Understanding otaku-hood, I think, is one of the keys to understanding the culture of the web. There is something profoundly post-national about it, extra-geographic.”
--- Gibson, William. "Modern boys and mobile girls" The Observer 2001