Otaku and the Media-Culture “Machine” (Part 1): Introduction
Hey guys, here is the intro to the introduction of a series of posts Josh will be writing about pop culture, media, anime, and all that jazz. I’ve read the […]
Hey guys, here is the intro to the introduction of a series of posts Josh will be writing about pop culture, media, anime, and all that jazz. I’ve read the […]
Hey guys so Josh and I just finished watching No Game No Life (NGNL) a few weeks back. Not gonna lie it’s my fault for taking forever to finish it […]
I’m on a roll with finishing up posts it seems! (Warning: ~4000 word post incoming.)
In an article titled “Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity“, Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles argue that geek culture (i.e. “geekdom”) as portrayed by popular media, functions as a sort of “simulated ethnicity”, where being a […]
It’s good to be back. Let’s get to it.
I have a thing for light novels (LNs). And so, it seems, do LNs themselves! WHAT TYPE OF STRANGE INCEST PLOT TWIST IS THIS?! Warning: 5000+ word post incoming.
In this book review, I take a look at what I think is probably the most important book a more academically-inclined anime fan could read. While it might or might […]
My summer in Japan is a strange one. What do I mean by that? For one, I’m actually doing astronomy research at an institute that is entirely in English, with […]
It seems that research plus doing things in Tokyo is taking up much more of my time than anticipated, and some things have really fallen off as a result. As […]
It seems like I’m on a roll tonight, so here’s another post/commentary/nice way to take breaks between writing code. Hopefully putting out two posts in a couple hours won’t overwhelm […]