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/
Adventures in Criticism: Otaku 1
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 [...]
Posted by cuchlann on 6 August 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/08/06/adventures-in-criticism-otaku-1/
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/
Of Diebuster, structure, and the parents of gods
Breaking into the super robot genre has proven difficult for me, so I asked the wise OGT to point me toward a few shows that might help. Among other things, he recommended Gunbuster (aka Top wo Nerae!) — you may already know this, given all the fanboying I did over the show and its sequel. [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 4 June 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/06/04/of-diebuster-structure-and-the-parents-of-gods/
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