Patrick Macias Biography
Patrick Macias is an American author and co-author of various books about pop culture fandom, particularly Japanese culture and otaku culture in America. Macias also serves as a journalist for NHK World Television’s Tokyo Eye and is the editor-in-chief of the otaku culture magazine Otaku USA, which launched on June 5, 2007.
Patrick Macias Age
Patrick was born in 1972,in Sacramento, California, United States of America. Macias is 51 years old as of 2023.
Patrick Macias Family
He has not yet disclosed any information about his parents or whether he has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of his family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Patrick Macias Wife
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don’t have much information about He’s past relationship and any previous engaged.
Patrick Macias Career
When he was 19, Macias became a published writer, writing about teenage culture for zines and other media. Based on Macias’ early work, Alvin Lu, a former editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, encouraged Macias to write for the Guardian, which led to a regular piece titled “Tiger on Beat” in which Macias covered Hong Kong movies. Lu went on to edit Tokyoscope and Pulp, while Macias began writing for Pulp and eventually became the assistant editor of Animerica.
In 2010, Macias was hired as the co-host of the webshow Otaku-Verse-Zero, which was sponsored by the Japanese internet radio station firm K’z Station. He would investigate anime and other Japanese subcultures in and around Tokyo with his co-host Yuu Asakawa. In 2011, Macias joined Crunchyroll’s web-talk show The Live Show as a co-host. Macias began writing the webcomic Paranoia Girls in 2014, which is “an experimental science fiction story set in the Northern California suburbs of 1985,” with art by Japanese surrealist Yunico Uchiyama. In 2015, Macias produced the Crunchyroll webcomic Hypersonic Music Club, which included art by cartoonist Hiroyuki Takahashi[5], in which cyborg DJs combat demons from another dimension.
Later in 2015, Macias began working with artist Mugi Tanaka on the Park Harajuku: Crisis Team! webcomic, conceived as a collaboration between Crunchyroll and the “otaku fashion” Park store in Harajuku, Tokyo. This webcomic was adapted into the 2017 anime series Urahara.
Patrick Macias Books
(1999) Fresh Pulp
(1999) Japan Edge
(2001) TokyoScope
(2003) Anime Poster Art
(2004) Cruising The Anime City
(2006) Otaku in USA – Love & Misunderstanding
(2007) Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno
(2007–2014) Otaku USA Magazine
Patrick Macias Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 1.5 million dollars.
