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Otaku Subculture Character in Japanese Poetry Anthology Otaku Senryu
Humaniora, 2016 This paper focuses on one the subcultures existing in Japan, known as otaku. Subculture is a forum for youth community media and technology enthusiasts, like manga (Japanese comics), anime (Japanese cartoons), video games, computers, and the Internet. In
Indah Fitriani +2 more
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Otakuism and the Appeal of Sex Robots. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2019 Social robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in everyday life and sex robots are a sub-category of especially high public interest and controversy. Starting from the concept of the otaku, a term from Japanese youth culture that describes secluded persons with a high affinity for fictional manga characters, we examine individual differences behind ...
Appel M, Marker C, Mara M.
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Otaku, subjectivity and databases: Hiroki Azuma’s Otaku: Japan’s database animals
Digital Culture & Education, 2012 Fabian Schäfer & Martin Roth
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, 2012 Beautiful Fighting Girl by Saitō Tamaki, translated by J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Pp. 213 + xxv.
Brill, Lesley, Burgoyne, Robert
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Consumable Bodies, Consumable Self
Exchanges, 2022 ‘Nerd’ is everywhere a lonely status, but queer identities and nonconforming gender expressions are especially socially isolating. This article examines the intersection of these two lonely identities, ‘nerd’ and ‘queer’, in Kio Shimoku’s manga ...
Christopher Smith
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O2O Destination Marketing Using a Location-Based GPS Game:
Maketingu Janaru, 2023 The location-based game “Station Memories!”, in which players travel around more than 9,000 stations throughout Japan with bishôjo (animated beautiful girl) characters, has recently become an online-to-offline (O2O) destination marketing approach for ...
Akinori Ono, Makoto Ono
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Exchanges, 2022 This article analyses Hosoda Mamoru’s anime film Summer Wars (2009) through its rearticulation of the lonely male otaku. A highly debated issue in and outside of Japan, the otaku community of fans shares with nerds associations with obsessive interests,
Filippo Cervelli
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Enfermedad mental y estereotipo en la figura del otaku japonés
Mirai, 2023 Ya desde la acuñación del estereotipo de ‘otaku’ en 1983, su artífice, Nakamori Akio, trató de poner de relieve la “anormalidad” de los respecto al resto de los jóvenes, enfatizando un interés insano por sus aficiones y un carácter más bien maniático ...
Jorge Rodríguez Cruz
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Haunted Psychologies: The Specter of Postmodern Trauma in Bakemonogatari
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2021 The anime adaptation of the light novel franchise Bakemonogatari was released in 2009. The story revolves around the character Araragi Koyomi, a high school student in his senior year who encounters a powerful vampire during a school break and is ...
Barbara Greene
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Seminare, 2023 Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie oryginalnej japońskiej subkultury młodzieżowej otaku związanej początkowo ze światem młodych chłopców oraz kultury kawaii przez badaczy społecznych wskazujących na jej związki z młodymi dziewczętami.
Marek Sokołowski
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