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Japanator Recommends: Idle Idol
by Colette Bennett, 07/09/2010

I was immediately fascinated the moment I heard that there was a book chronicling the mascot culture of Japan. Called Idle Idol, this book painstaking details all of the famous faces you see around Japan that help to promote products and businesses, including famous faces like Doreamon, Astroboy and more. And if you want to buy it, by the way, it's like, eleven bucks. CHEAP.

Want to see what I thought of the book? You can hit the jump and find out!

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Legacy comments:

Lifesong

Not to be one to point out the obvious but in case Colette has not noticed.. This article appears to be missing most of its content.

lyfeforce

Oh hey, a video review. Isn't that snazzy?

On topic, It's a very nice book if you're into iconography. Good photos too.

Brad Rice

@Lifesong: Video review is something snazzy that requires no words. Just eyes and ears.

Lifesong

Just realized how unclear my last comment was.. I can not see a video or anything rather past what I can see about this post on the main page. I have tried opening the article now on multiple computers and with multiple browsers all with the same result so I do not think its a problem on my end.

Lifesong

Sorry not trying to be obnoxious something appears broken... I have no issues with video reviews at all! when I can see them. (I do not see a video player at all for that mater I did not even know this was a video review until I read lyeforce's comment)

Brad Rice

@Lifesong I can see it just fine -- have you tried updating your flash player?

Lifesong

@Brad Rice I just now tried updated flash for both IE and Firefox and I still see nothing. I would be happy to send you a screen shot of what I do see if that would be useful to you.

HoodedMiracle

I hate the cover. Astro Boy looks realistically American. -_-

Spike

I shall purchase a copy and place it in my shrine to Colette.

Brad Rice

@Lifesong Not sure how to help, but I know the issue you're talking about. That just sorta magically fixes itself for me.

Lifesong

@Brad Rice Okay well as long as you are aware of the glitch and I cleared up the earlier misunderstanding about my original comment I am going to not worry about it. Hopefully the magic fix will find me at some point.