Baby Face, Team Popeye, and Akujo

Books! Books! We’ve got books, two of them to tell the truth. A pair of advance copies of my 2007 title from Chronicle Books, JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRL INFERNO – TOKYO TEEN SUBCULTURE HANDBOOK. Sadly, it won’t be on sale until May 3rd (blame the biannual release schedule of the US publishing industry) but I can’t resist tooting my own **** until then.

This sucker is as glossy as Shiseido Aquair Deep Moist Shampooed hair, and easily has the highest production values of any book I’ve done to date. We’re talking full-color interior crowded with pictures loaned from legendary Gal magazine egg and lots of Mad Magazine style illustrations by Kazumi “Batty Cheese” Nonaka. Contents include the Real Deal about Lady Bikers, Girl Gangs, Gonguro, Hime Gals, Gothloli, and the truly fearful Kigurumin (girls who prance about in nothing but Pikachu pajamas). My lovely co-author is Izumi Evers. She did the graphic design and provided raw data about these human oddities inside as well.

For anyone thinking I’ve gone all soft and girly with this one, rest assured, it’s chock full of sex, crime, scandal, and ALL of the seven deadly sins are present with particular attention lavished upon “Greed.”

I think it will thrill you. I hope you will buy it when it comes out. At an absurd $11.53 from Amazon, it is certainly cheaper than an evening of compensated dating with a Kogal.

Comments

[wildarmsheero]

Ah yes, this will make for wholesome summer reading.

[Joseph Luster]

That is mighty cheap. I hope your cut is more 11 and less .53!

[Matt B]

I'm on this shit. You rock my socks, Macias.

[Anders HJ]

Hopefully this is gonna become for the second part of the decade what the Fruits book was for the first part. The book you found on the coffee table of every big city alternative girl in the whole Western world. A bible for the "Hello Kitty feminists". Be prepared to be featured in magazines like Bitch and Missbehave Patrick!

[Gilles Poitras]

OOHHHHH I WANT!

I'm sure this will be a well cited source in my Newtype USA column as well as the Anime Companion web supplement.