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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Otaku"”.
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REEXAMINING AND REEVALUATING OTAKU CONSUMPTION: A POSTSTRUCTURALIST APPROACH TO SLICE-OF-LIFE ANIME
… studies approach, this thesis seeks to reexamine otaku consumption, showing how the current theories of otaku consumption are insufficient in accounting for numerous aspects of otaku behavior today. Analyzing the genre of slice-of-life anime illustrates how narratives have not become subordinate …
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Legendary Days – a novel, and the Aspects of Geek Culture in Fiction
… and uses of the terms ‘geek’, ‘nerd’ and ‘otaku’ over time. I look for points of commonality and how they have been used in texts since the seventeenth century. After this initial exploration, I move to a close reading of three novels that are representative of geek culture. These texts …
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Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami and the crisis of Japanese identity
… of kawaii goods, their male contemporaries, the otaku were demonized for a fetishization of kawaii girls and technology through anime and manga, or animation and comic books. Destabilizing the nation’s patriarchal theory of cultural uniqueness, or nihonjinron, the youth triggered fears of a …