The new book OTAKU IN USA , written by Patrick Macias, edited and translated into Japanese by Tomohiro Machiyama, will go on sale in Japan in August 2006.

Tomo says, “This book took three years to make and wound up becoming 300 pages. It covers everything from the premiere of the first Godzilla film all the way to the recent yaoi boom. One American otaku, Patrick Macias, writes about how Japanese pop culture has been imported to the West."

The contents include:

• Henry G. Saperstein who dreamed of making a "Godzilla Vs. Frankenstein" movie!
• Ultraseven dubbed into English... and as a comedy!
• Spectreman brings environmental awareness to the USA!
• Gatchaman is transformed into a space patrol that travels across the milky way!
• American dream of seeing Yuki Mori nude in the US version of Yamato!
• Super robots Raideen, Combattler, and Danguard Ace all fighting on the same team!
• Voltron worshipped by gangster rappers!
• Godzilla 1985 is turned into an epic-length Dr. Pepper commercial!
• American shocked by their first exposure to the power of MOE via Lynn Minmei on Robotech!
• Eight years ago in America, when you said anime, it meant "hentai" !
• Sailor Moon was bashed as pornography, but revived like a phoenix by fan power!
• The Yaoi boom arrives in America!
• Visual-kei means "bands that look like anime characters" !
• Increasing numbers of people in America know how to navigate the freeways of Tokyo thanks to video game!
• The fear against child porn among Americans who try to understand MOE!
• The Anime manic life of Fred Patten, the world's oldest living otaku!

And more more more more... because it's 300 pages long!