Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: . . . but additionally, there was also information that was important to making sure of our fellow feeling. That was more of a topic than knowledge for the sake of social life. Yes: that is, the knowledge we obtained from TV, radio, shōnen magazines, manga and such. From there we obtained topics for discussion, we discovered methods of making our play more interesting, and we experienced the aura of the metropolis.In Andrea Horbinski’s translation of a chapter from 2B-dan: Gindama sensō no hibi (Squad 2B: The days of the silver ball gun wars) by Yonezawa Yoshihiro and Shikijō Kyōtarō we see the beginning of a new world, Japan in the 1950s. This was a world only recently separated from the regimented society of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: This article contemplates the continued significance of “the Miyazaki Incident” (formally Tōkyō Saitama renzoku yōjo yūkai satsujin jiken, casually M jiken), or the arrest of a serial murderer and eruption of media discourse in Japan in 1989. Many note the rise of “otaku bashing,” and the repetitive move to relate the murderer Miyazaki Tsutomu to “otaku,” whether connections were affirmed or denied, served to establish associations in the popular imaginary.1 Despite consensus that this was a pivotal moment in understandings of “otaku,” there are few explorations of specific, situated responses. Moreover, there are those who refuse to forget the Miyazaki Incident and bring it up regularly, insisting that it is ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: This article aims to look at how the otaku have been defined and redefined as a new breed of nonconformist human in Japanese society; flaunters of social norms, ultra-consumerist, potentially criminal, eternally banished to the outskirts of the mainstream, only to be conveniently held up as a last bastion of hope when strategic policies for reinvigorating the Japanese economy using the global influence of the creative industries are introduced. I explore the process through which this transition happened, beginning with early newsworthy instances in which the first otaku generation caught public attention, and trace their gradual evolution into a marginalized subculture with its own environment and information ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: The people who became the hardcore fans of manga circles in the 1970s and otaku in the 1980s had a long prehistory as fans, geeks, and nerds from childhood. In the following chapter from 2B-dan gindama sensō no hibi: Shōwa 30-nendai, yume no shōnen ōkoku (Tokyo: Shinpyōsha, 1982: The days of squad 2B and the silver ball war: The Shōwa 30s, the boys’ kingdom of dreams), leading Comiket figure and manga critic Yonezawa Yoshihiro (1953–2006), along with his co-writer Shikijō Kyōtarō (b. 1953, a penname), recount growing up in the Shōwa 30s (1955–65) as TV began its relentless march into Japanese homes and they glutted ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: From Okinawa to Hokkaido, people are transfixed in front of their television screens. Japan’s greatest hero (saikō no hīrō), All Might (Ōrumaito), fights his final battle, wrenching victory from the jaws of defeat and saving the nation from evil one last time. As his opponent is carted off in handcuffs and the traumatic yet triumphant live broadcast event draws to a close, All Might turns to the camera, uttering the cryptic words:“Next, it’s your turn”This message, which marks the denouement of one of My Hero Academia’s (Boku no hīrō akademia) most climactic arcs in chapter 94 of the manga, is coded on multiple levels both diegetically within the narrative, and indexically of the real world without. To the everyday ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Playing tennis is no problem, but if you watch anime, you’re weird' Why'!In 1991, Otaku no video was the first anime that portrayed otaku.1 The viewer follows the main protagonist Ken Kubo from his “normal” high schooler life to being the “otaking” (otaku king). The documentary part contains ten interviews with “real,” non-animated, otaku, in what the movie calls “portrait of an otaku.” Lien Fan Shen shows in her article that Otaku no video is a unique viewing experience that “allows us to rethink media representations of otaku and paradoxical relationships between the object and subject of otaku, and thus to traverse otaku fantasy in order to further investigate contemporary subjectivity in consumer society.”2 She ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Since the emergence of manga and anime fan conventions in 1970s Japan, the various fandoms and communities now known under the umbrella term of “otaku” have always flirted with queer modes of representation. Comic Market, today the largest fan convention in the world, was first held in 1975, a time when Hagio Moto’s shōjo manga attracted both female and male fans with a combination of various genres including science fiction, horror, and homosexual romances.1 While the emerging homoerotic dōjinshi (fanzine) community supported by young women and the science fiction animation scene uniting mostly male animators had some issues while figuring out how to coexist, the diverse spectrum of otaku fandoms nevertheless ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Having regularly heard Legend of Galactic Heroes (1988–97) name-dropped between tipsy cultural studies writers since the late 1990s, I had an interest in seeing what spawned such clandestine obsession. But as my sole reason for watching it was from social curiosity, I never set myself the nigh-impossible task of finding all twenty-five-plus tapes of fansubs. Most anime fans of past generations had one of these white (sharpie-labeled) whales; elusive shows they relentlessly pursued with hopes of sharing with their friends in a late–night binge in their living rooms, Macross figurines inevitably adorning the entertainment center, like mecha Greek theater masks. By early 2015, the streaming revolution was growing, and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: In Neo Otaku City, there are two kinds of people: the kind of people who can recite the Sailor Moon theme song from memory in the original Japanese, and the kind who don’t belong here. When someone commits a crime against anime, they don’t call the police. They call the Anime Crimes Division.I was browsing the popular anime streaming service Crunchyroll one day in 2018, when I stumbled upon Anime Crimes Division,1 a web series created by Freddie Wong and Darnell Murphy. Produced under indie production studio RocketJump, and backed by Crunchyroll, the series stood out to me for several reasons: first, within an entire catalog dedicated to anime, this series was unique in being English-language and live action. ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Ten years ago, a hypnagogic anthem with feathery vocals and nostalgic electropop riffs went viral on Tumblr, the then-thriving microblogging website known as a popular hub for fandoms, the internet social justice movement, and subcultures.1 The song was “Genesis,” the lead single from Visions (2012), the third studio album by Canadian musician and artist Grimes, née Claire Boucher in 1988, who now goes by the name c—the letter in lowercase and italics used to denote the speed of light in vacuum.2 The song’s self-directed video was shot in Los Angeles, under the influence of trippy Boschian imagery and pastel grunge aesthetics.3 Grimes and her girl gang rode in an Escalade through the desert, wielding swords and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Subscription journal
[305 journals]
