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| | Substantive Images - Anime News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Hiroki Azuma is a notable postmodern Japanese cultural critic keenly interested in the impact of the internet, anime, and otaku on culture. |
 | | Azuma stated that anime, economically, is certainly doing tremendously well, but he, personally, felt that while the commercial anime industry is making money, there is no analytical cultural boom associated with it, and thus we are not in a Golden Age. |
 | | Azuma told the audience that McGray is very, very well known in otaku circles in Japan and that Japanese otaku, right now, are hoping/praying/fantasizing that he and Sato are acting as official ambassadors of Japan's otaku, wishing for them to bring back to Japan a message from McGray. |
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