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  Special thanks to NetGalley and Europe Comics for a copy. I am an affiliate with Z Publishing House. For more information, see the link at the bottom of the page. Tokyo Underground, the first in the Otaku Blue series, is written by Richard Marazano and published by Europe Comics. It will become available in the US on April 17th. Marazano is a French author of graphic novels, titles including The Chimpanzee Complex series, the Dream of The Butterfly series, the S.A.M. series, and Milo's World, among others.  Otaku Blue follows Asami, a Japanese sociology student who is studying the otaku culture for her thesis. As she tries to understand the phenomena and reasoning behind this subculture, with the help of cosplayer Maiko who suggest she looks for Buntaro, the elusive otaku expert. Meanwhile, Asami's boyfriend Kotaro is working on a J-horror flick with the hopes of starting his film career, yet he is frustrated by Asami's insistence of pursuing Maiko's le...