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Frankie's Profile: I'm a magazine publisher writing about Japanese Pop Culture between Tokyo and Rome. Beside my own magazines my articles appeared also on La Repubblica (Italian newspaper), XL (Italian Magazine), Wired (Italia) and GAME LABO (Japanese). I also do consulting for Japanese companies interested in oversea Otaku market. I've been a techno DJ and musician till the mid nineties before starting to work as consultant for institutions and companies...
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RETRO JAPAN: COMIKET IN 1985

di Frankie (12/08/2007 - 11:41)


(via Haimaki) Wow! It's impressive to watch how otaku culture  was already alive and kicking in Japan more than  20 years ago when the western geekdom was still trapped into the Marvel super heroes universe...  1985 was a special year for Comiket since in that year Yoshihiro Yonezawa established the Comiket Ltd. to better manage an event that was already getting big and in the same year the female presence among attendees started to rise thanks to the success of Yaoi phenomenon linked to Captain Tsubasa parodies...

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