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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Thought Police Can't Protect Real Children - 2 views
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would have established the catagory of "nonexistent youth"
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The banning of fictional depictions of child abuse would likely be as meaningless as the banning of fictional depictions of car chasing with the aim toward reducing motor vehicle accidents in real life.
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If content alone was the issue, war footage and horror films should be banned as well.
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ICv2 - A Second Bad Year in a Row for Manga - 1 views
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Manga readers lack the “collector mentality” of comic book fans and also tend to be both young and tech savvy. The fact that manga is “long-form” entertainment, with many series running to dozens of volumes (Naruto Vol. 48 is due out in June), even taking into account the fact that manga is very attractively priced compared with traditional American graphic novels, it is very expensive to collect the entire series in paper.
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Well, I'm not sure that manga readers lack the "collector mentality", since serialization is at the very basis of manga, but as pointed out later in the paragraph, collecting the 100+ volumes of Naruto or buying the 20+ boxes of its anime adaptation is probably out of reach for the younger wallets. Basically, the industry has tried to milk people a bit too much by producing over-extended narratives. Moreover, they might have over-estimated people's capacity to follow the same hero over decades. Only very few narratives have been able to achieve this feat.
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Eroge seiyuu costs - 1 views
2008オタク産業白書(目次) | 出版物のご案内 | メディアクリエイト - 0 views
2007年のオタク市場規模は1,866億円、ライトオタク増加により市場拡大 - 0 views
北米におけるコンテンツ市場の実態 2008-2009 - 0 views
Pokémon in a traditonal Japanese style - 5 views
Onderzoeksdag "Gotta catch 'em all" - 2 views
Call for papers: PopCAANZ: The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand - 0 views
POPCAANZ 2nd Annual International Conference June 29-July 1, 2011 | The Langham Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand Call for Papers - deadline for submissions: January 30, 2011 The Popular Culture Assoc...
Youth Brigade: Clearing up the Tokyo Youth Ordinance Bill - 0 views
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This bill is not good for the Japanese anime and manga industry as a whole; it is not good for publishers, and it is not good for the creators. As anime and manga fans, we are constantly fighting against the preconceived notion that such entertainment is just for kids. Unfortunately, if this law remains on the books and creators cannot make the daring works they wish, anime and manga may indeed turn into unquestioning, lobotomized entertainment for little kiddies from here on out.
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Bill 156 is not an across the board muzzling of creativity and critical art in Japan. However, it is potentially a hollowing out of two of Japan's most noteworthy art forms.
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novels and films are not affected by this law
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evaschimmer - 1 views
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