the many ways that anime crosses over from the "virtual" to the
"real." The most obvious example is cosplay and the many forms of licensed merchandise,
such as toys and models, that in effect bring anime through the screen and into
people's hands. When fans take anime and manga characters, and use them to create their
own fanzine manga (dôjinshi), a similar kind of translation effect is underway, that
is, taking imagined characters, re-imagining through our own minds, and the creating
something new in the world.
Live Action Anime? Only at MIT! - 0 views
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Anime creators always struggle with challenge of bringing the "real" into the "virtual" space of animation.
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Anime fans have long debated whether Anime is best understood as a genre (or perhaps a set of related genres), as an aesthetic style, as a mode of production, or as a transmedia phenomenon.
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Moe and the Potential of Fantasy in Post-Millenial Japan - 2 views
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If kawaii, or the aesthetic of cute, is the longing for the freedom and innocence of youth, manifesting in the junior and high school girl in uniform (Kinsella 1995), then moe is the longing for the purity of characters pre-person, manifesting in androgynous semi and demi human forms. This is called 'jingai,' or outside human, and examples include robots, aliens, dolls and anthropomorphized animals, all stock characters in the moe pantheon. A specific example would be nekomimi, or cat-eared characters. More generally, in order to achieve the desired affect, moe characters are reduced to tiny deformed 'little girl' images with emotive, pupil-less animal eyes
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I argue fantasy characters offer virtual possibilities and affect
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Moe is also used by fujoshi, zealous female fans of yaoi, a genre of manga featuring male homosexual romance. However, the word moe indicates a response to fantasy characters, not a specific style, character type or relational pattern. While some things are more likely than others to inspire moe, this paper will focus mainly on the response itself rather than the forms that inspire it.
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