Moreover, the barrage of naive spectacle with which Eisner treated the populace, the incessant demonstrations, public concerts, parades of flags, and inspiring speeches about the “realm of light, beauty and reason” did little to consolidate his position.

Anyone whose sexual life is partly or wholly maintained in the aesthetic realm can be considered an otaku.

Western anime fans are proud to point out that, while they might like anime, they also have actual girlfriends in real life, but this is not a major concern for Japanese otaku.

I have been gifted with a surfeit of Satanity and the need to live up to it.

His interest in quantum field theory seemed to have a bizarre side to it, since he wanted to use it to explain how TM adepts were able to levitate, but in other ways he behaved much like other graduate students.

“Evangelion is boring. The only thing original about it is the robot you plug into the socket,” concludes Dan Hollis.

Do you know what fraternities are? Mine was anime-related and changed my life dramatically.

While millions around the globe have followed Rob’s one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial journey, through his wildly popular MTV shows, viral videos, and considerable social-media platform, very few know the true “reality” of his methodical approach to business behind the scenes. Up at 6 a.m. every single day, Rob operates with one philosophy in mind – “Make Your Own Luck.”

A random scan of the text’s surface throws up word-clusters such as obscene, vile, throat, screeching, poison, pestilential, rotten, fever, decomposition, stench, fetid, entrails; or, later, dancing, whirling, rushing, burst, distorted, slash, split, mutilated, gaping; or, later still, diabolic, pullulation, swarmed, cadaverous, vermicular, tumour, convulsed, bulging.

There are hundreds of mentions of goats in this book.