He often lamented that there was no meaning in life and contemplated suicide. He planned to do job interviews to work part-time and drop out of university once he was able to get a job; however, he backed out at the last minute. Feeling that something was wrong with him, he asked ...
Moreover, both Toivonen and Imoto [59] and Abel [60] discuss the case of otaku (i.e., an individual with consuming interests, such as anime or manga) and the Cool Japan initiative in terms of the fluidity of the meaning and interpretations of such social categories, where the original ...