"In The Imagined Life of an Otaku Collector, Or To Be a Cosplay Star, Mark Watts explores the place of the foreigner in Japanese culture, as one who lived there for 2 years before returning to New Zealand in 2006 to pursue his MA. By superimposing his own face onto Japanese dolls he conveys succinctly, and with sensitivity, the ambivalence he experienced as a Western man in Japan."
-Billie Lythberg MA (Hons) Grad Dip Arts, October 2008.
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