Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Translators' Introduction -- OTAKU -- 1. The Otaku's Pseudo-Japan -- What Is Otaku Culture? -- The Otaku's Pseudo-Japan -- The Pseudo-Japan Manufactured from U.S.-mode Material -- 2. Database Animals -- Otaku and Postmodernity -- Narrative Consumption -- The Grand Nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database Consumption -- The Simulacra and the Database -- Snobbery and the Fictional Age -- The Dissociated Human -- The Animal Age -- 3. Hyperflatness and Multiple Personality -- Hyperflatness and Hypervisuality -- Multiple Personality -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.