Otaku
by Hiroki Azuma · first published 2009
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Azuma’s discussion of otaku culture is nothing short of revelatory for anybody who looks at the proliferation of animanga imagery and associated ideas and is attempting to understand their underlying structure. The manuscript he…
on “How Takashi Murakami Got His Start as an Artist” ↗MAL was actually my source for thinking on this subject. In combination with the book Otaku: Database Animals[0] (anime fans catalogue the hell out of things, and this extends to tracking their anime and ratings) I realized you should be able to put together some very strong recommendations…
on “How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?” ↗…ahead of older stuff like Sailor Moon but looks behind something like Accel World or Bleach. Story-wise it was an advance in postmodernization which was already well developed https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/d... but it used devices such as telling the story out of order and building systematically on tropes that seemed fresh at the time but now seem cynical to me.
on “Anime is eating the world” ↗There is a lot of behavior online which I'd characterize as "hearing the dog whistles and barking" that when confront folks they will characterize it as "objecting to things in passionate terms" Like the Otaku described by Azuma [1] there is a definite regression in terms of the of use of language and ideology, essentially a reversion from a language-using animal which can create unlimited meanings by putting…
on “Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?” ↗