The Acrobat's review
Wrong About Japan
by Peter Carey
The Acrobat's review
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
The Acrobat's review
rating:
Peter Carey went to Japan because his son likes manga, and because he's Peter Carey and he's got a good agent, scored interviews with a who's who of Japanese comics writers. The book might be more successful if Carey had been more willing to abandon his preconceptions about Japan, to accept it when his understanding of Japan is corrected, or to open his mind to youth culture; an interest in text-messaging and video games does not make one an otaku.
I did enjoy finding out a thing or two I didn't know (but suspected) about Mobile Suit Gundam, among other texts, though the number of errors in the book, obvious even to one as un-knowledgeable in the field as I am, lowered his credibility. I'll check before I cite anything I read as fact.
I did enjoy finding out a thing or two I didn't know (but suspected) about Mobile Suit Gundam, among other texts, though the number of errors in the book, obvious even to one as un-knowledgeable in the field as I am, lowered his credibility. I'll check before I cite anything I read as fact.
