Genshiken

It's the spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara is in a quandary. Should he fulfill his long-cherished dream of joining an otaku club? Saki Kasukabe also faces a dilemma. Can she ever turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Makoto, into a normal guy? Kanji triumphs where Saki fails when both Kanji and Makoto sign up for Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture. Undeterred, Saki chases Makoto through various activities of the club, from cos-play and comic conventions to video gaming and collecting anime figures-all the while discovering more than she ever wanted to know about the humorous world of the Japanese otaku!Shimoku, Kio is the author of 'Genshiken ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780345481696 and ISBN 0345481690.