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/
Blurbing…fashion in Japan, from the Japanese
[Post by Lelangir] So you read it – there is an implicit cultural emulation within the inundation of Western fashion in Japan. To the Black-Face (Ganguro), Western fashion serves as a counter hegemony against the traditional and conservative past Japanese masculine ideology that has been imposed upon women. While the past is usually associated with [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 17 October 2008
http://superfani.com/2008/10/17/blurbingfashion-in-japan-from-the-japanese/
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