This shit is pretty unambiguously pretentious and I don’t like it. But I don’t really hold it against the show. It isn’t just the creators jerking off. Opinionated metafiction is one convention in a set of conventions that Bebop calls upon, then shows us through the eyes of a cast that doesn’t hail from the [...]
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(Cowboy Bebop 12-19) I wish that I could turn back time
Posted by Pontifus on 22 February 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/02/22/cowboy-bebop-12-19-i-wish-that-i-could-turn-back-time/
(Cowboy Bebop 1-7) Insert title of catechism song
I offer you a quote from Ghostlightning, whose ongoing effort to engage with Cowboy Bebop’s love-remembering elements is one of the most meticulous and goddamn heroic blog activities I’ve ever seen: We won’t find anything in Cowboy Bebop that has a reference that figures so significantly in the narrative so as to be the primary [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 6 February 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/02/06/cowboy-bebop-1-7-insert-title-of-catechism-song/
An Open Analysis on Fan Affinities
If we are to notice the amount, the type, and how open we are when it comes to Japanese visual media that we consume, we are to know where we stand. So in an attempt to enlighten readers in a way that encourages them to take a closer look at themselves, me and good friend Pontifus [...]
Posted by Shance on 2 October 2011
http://superfani.com/2011/10/02/an-open-analysis-on-fan-affinities/
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/
Porno: the violent genre?
Is it still soon enough after the fact that we haven’t allowed our subcultural amnesia to rob us of Mr. Handley? I’ve said more than I care to say on the matter already — but, while combing through articles on media effects, I came across an interesting notion. That being: pornography is “violent” media.
Posted by Pontifus on 30 March 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/03/30/the-violent-genre-of-porno/
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