Hello Please! by Matt Alt

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Hello Please! by Matt Alt

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Summary

A menagerie of mascots and characters inhabit the islands of Japan, guiding citizens through daily activities and situations. This work collects photographs of hundreds of the these cute (or kawaii) creatures in their native habitat: from public street signs to supermarket shelves, in doctor's offices, on tax forms and instruction manuals.

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Hello Please! by Matt Alt

A menagerie of mascots and characters inhabit the islands of Japan, cheerfully guiding citizens through all sorts of daily activities and situations. "Hello, Please!" collects photographs of hundreds of the these cute (or kawaii) creatures in their native habitat, which is virtually everywhere: from public street signs to supermarket shelves, in doctor's offices, on tax forms and instruction manuals-even emblazoned on the sides of Tokyo's fire and police emergency vehicles. Authors Matt Alt and HirokoYoda explore the cultural context of these ubiquitous, hard-working critters and their relationship to anime and manga, commercial characters like Hello Kitty, and the cult of cute, while introducing a host of adorable new best friends you never new you had.

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Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt are a husband and wife team who run a Tokyo-based translation company that specializes in producing the English versions of Japanese video games, comic books and literature. Alt is the co-author of Super #1 Robot (2005), a detailed photo-history of 1970s Japanese robot toys.
Alt and Yoda are also co-authors of Hello, Please! Very Helpful Super Kawaii Characters From Japan (2007), a book about Japanese cute character culture. They also happen to have firsthand yokai experience, having appeared as extras in the Takashi Miike film The Great Yokai War (2005).
Illustrator Tatsuya Morino became the assistant to Shigeru Mizuki, one of Japans most beloved manga artists, when he was fresh out of high school. After going independent, he illustrated the graphic novel Kibakichi, which was turned into a pair of successful movies of the same name. He also works
as a character designer, with credits including the Gainax video game Yokai Family and the web comic Trip Trek. His comic Legentail Sennenta is currently serialized in Kadokawa Shotens monthly comic collection Kero Kero Ace.
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ISBN 13 9780811856744
ISBN 10 0811856747
Title Hello Please!
Author Matt Alt
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Chronicle Books
Year published 2007-10-01
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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