Kotobukiya’s fourth installment in its published love of Japanese culture is coming to the US in the next few weeks (February 2011) and this time it will focus on illustrators.

Titled Otacool 4: Worldwide Illustrators, the full color book will feature 160 pages of illustrations, illustrator biographies and interviews with featured illustrators (for example, Okya Hiroya and Kazuki Yone). Unlike the previous three Otacool books, this one was produced in cooperation with Pixiy, a Japan-based illustration community.

Kotobukiya’s latest book, titled Otacool 3: Worldwide Workspaces may seem especially odd to American readers as it features photos of people’s workspace, ie their desk and surrounding office space. It’s basically a lookie-lou, peaky-peak into other people’s work surfaces and homes. It’s a little weird yet almost additively engrossing.

Otacool 2: Worldwide Cosplayers is, simply put, full-color otaku coolness.

This is not a book of wide-eyed, scantily-clad Japanese hussies. This is instead an art book of professionally photographed enthusiasts who have taken their love of anime and video games to a much higher – and often more personal – level.

The January 2010 issue of B’s Log is sure to bring big smiles to fans of Konami’s popular dating simulation game Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side (TMGS).

Gracing the cover of this month’s current issue was one of the new characters coupled with the official title of the new addition scheduled for a tentative 2010 release on the Nintendo DS.

Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 3rd Story takes place seven years after the events of the first TMGS game at Habataki Gakuen. This new chapter in the series promises new locations, gameplay, delectable date-ables (of course) and even a new main character sporting a new hairstyle and school uniform. The main character will still have a sidekick who serves as a barometer for your crushes’ affection as well as important statistics, but no additional details have been released yet.

So far, only 3 character have been introduced: Ruka Sakurai, Arashi Fujiyama, and Tamao Konno.

On page 42 of the April 2008 issue of Wired magazine is a photo featuring six stereotypical Geeks: a Fanboy, Music Geek, Gamer, Gadget Guy, Hacker and Otaku. Each over-generalized category is exemplified by a person modeling what Wired deems appropriate garb and a brief description that includes disposition, beliefs and turn-ons.

Here’s the unusually derogatory description Wired writer/contributor, Troy Brownfield, writes of Gamers…