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. [...]
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Otaku annotated: adventures in moe, porn, and postmodernism
Posted by Pontifus on 10 April 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/04/10/otaku-annotated/
Moment(s) the [nth]: Honorable mentions, part 1
Here I stand some three days after the conclusion of Project Twelve Moments 2009, my fingers bent and bloodied, my mind weeping ichorous tears after twelve days of wracking. And yet my work is unfinished. A mere twelve posts aren’t enough to cover every specimen of drawn and/or animated media I consumed in 2009 that [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 28 December 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/12/28/moments-the-nth-honorable-mentions-part-1/
“Fate:” Owen, IKnight, and Haruki Murakami
I’ve had my say on Fate/stay night, the visual novel that has, evidently, rendered me too jaded to enjoy VNs with a certain abundance of moe proclivities. But what of the sphere? Allow me to examine the reactions (and the general thoughts on visual novels) of bloggers more popular than I am, one F/sn route [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 21 August 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/08/21/fate-owen-iknight-and-haruki-murakami/
Finishing Fate for real
I’ll say, tentatively, that “Heaven’s Feel” (or “Heavens Feel,” whichever you prefer) might’ve been my favorite of Fate’s three routes. It’s almost certainly the darkest; I read somewhere, I think in the comments to IKnight’s post, that horror is Nasu’s strength, and I can believe it. Where “Unlimited Blade Works” throws the characters into a [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 18 August 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/08/18/finishing-fate-for-real/
“–My whole life was ‘unlimited blade works’”
Hoo man. “Unlimited Blade Works” was intense, and that’s considering my prior knowledge of the massive twist toward the end. I got the impression that ol’ Nasu was toying around with the absolute worst-case scenario he could think of — so much so that the protagonists’ methods of victory started to feel like deus ex [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 15 August 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/08/15/my-whole-life-was-unlimited-blade-works/
I am the bone of my keyboard
Have withstood pain to create many posts. Here, have some more Fate/stay night. I still haven’t scoured the blogs for helpful thoughts on the “Fate” route, but I can at least make some notes on my progress through “Unlimited Blade Works” — can and should, before I forget everything. Windows Update and my own carelessness [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 14 August 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/08/14/i-am-the-bone-of-my-keyboard/
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