Yes, that’s right, ages after Pontifus made that post you surely remember, and my threat to do an AiC, I’m finally here. Woo? You know the book. Otaku, by Hiroki Azuma. OGT has kindly lent me his copy, and I’ll be doing a series of posts, one for each chapter – hopefully they’ll be reasonably [...]
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Adventures in Criticism: Otaku 1
Posted by cuchlann on 6 August 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/08/06/adventures-in-criticism-otaku-1/
Boobies of the Dead
Part two of my ongoing (slowly ongoing) exploration of fanservice! Part one can be found here. A year after I wrote the first entry, I’m finally getting around to the second. Hurrah! Unsurprisingly, I want to take on the fanservice in High School of the Dead, the new zombie anime that’s taking the world of [...]
Posted by cuchlann on 17 July 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/07/17/boobies-of-the-dead/
Notes on rewatching Toradora! episodes 1-8
As I remembered this show being incredible, and as it’s on my list of things to buy at Otakon, I figured I’d give Toradora! another watch to fill in what holes exist in my memory. And because things like random rewatches basically mean free blog content, I decided to take some notes as I watched. [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 16 July 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/07/16/notes-on-rewatching-toradora-episodes-1-8/
The many Minmays to my Hikaru (but who is the Minmay here, and who the Hikaru?): A selfish reading of that one love triangle
Every once in a while, two lines of inquiry collide in my head, and the resultant reaction inevitably takes some sensitive tissue with it. The questions that led to today’s post were: 1. if fandom is socially constructed like the rest of our personalities — if fandom is indeed part of one’s personality, and not [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 27 May 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/05/27/the-many-minmays-to-my-hikaru-but-who-is-the-minmay-here-and-who-the-hikaru-a-selfish-reading-of-that-one-love-triangle/
Complex feelings about moral complexity (or, A paean to Paptimus-sama)
I got the idea for this post while reading John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, but knowledge thereof isn’t required, and I’ll try not to spoil it too badly. Suffice to say that I’ll mostly deal with that Japanese stuff I’m always on about, as it’s full of counterexamples to things Scalzi does that I don’t [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 20 May 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/05/20/complex-feelings-about-moral-complexity-or-a-paean-to-paptimus-sama/
Otaku annotated: adventures in moe, porn, and postmodernism
I found Hiroki Azuma’s Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals at the university library — seven or so months ago. And, what do you know, it’s due back. Overdue, probably. So I suppose I should annotate this thing at long last, for your benefit and mine. It’s a short book, but I won’t be entirely exhaustive here. [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 10 April 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/04/10/otaku-annotated/
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