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Otaku and the Media-Culture “Machine” (Part 1): Introduction

July 12, 2015by Josh 2 Comments

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 […]

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Otaku and the Media-Culture Machine, Relating Anime to Things

Colloquium: No Game No Life

July 19, 2014by Rebecca 18 Comments

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 […]

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Joint Post, No Game No Life, Rants, Reviews, Sword Art Online

What ARE Otaku Exactly? The (Non)Dual Nature of the “Otaku” in Gainax’s Otaku no Video

March 25, 2014by Josh 5 Comments

I’m on a roll with finishing up posts it seems! (Warning: ~4000 word post incoming.)

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Interpreting Interpretation, Relating Anime to Things, Reviews

Interpreting Interpretation: Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity…?

March 25, 2014by Josh 18 Comments

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 […]

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Interpreting Interpretation, Rants

12 Days of Anime Day 5: The Current Status of Light Novel Adaptations (and Outbreak Company Fanboying)

December 19, 2013by Josh 6 Comments

It’s good to be back. Let’s get to it.

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12 Days of Anime, Fanboying/Fangirling, Infinite Stratos, NouCome, Outbreak Company, Rants, Relating Anime to Things, Reviews, Soft Power

I missed the name there – that was ‘Ore’…what?: Light Novels Defending Light Novels

September 1, 2013by Josh 18 Comments

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.

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Interpreting Interpretation, Looking Back, Oregairu, OreImo, OreShura, Rants, Relating Anime to Things, Reviews

Book Review: “Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals”

July 18, 2013by Josh 15 Comments

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 […]

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Book Reviews, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

A Brief Digression / Notes on “Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals”: Part 6 – The Dissociated Human

July 12, 2013by Josh Leave a comment

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 […]

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My Summer in Japan, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals, Rants, Relating Anime to Things

Notes on “Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals”: Part 5 – Snobbery and the Fictional Age

July 12, 2013by Josh 3 Comments

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 […]

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My Summer in Japan, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

Notes on “Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals”: Part 4 – Moe-elements

July 10, 2013by Josh 1 Comment

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 […]

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Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

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