The Influence Of Otaku Culture
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The Influence Of Otaku Culture
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Author : DAVID SANDUA
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-08-05
The Influence Of Otaku Culture written by DAVID SANDUA and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-05 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Dive into the fascinating world of Otaku culture with "The Influence of Otaku Culture"! This book is an in-depth and detailed exploration of how the anime and manga subculture, originating in Japan, is redefining the notion of entertainment and making its mark on global culture. From its humble origins in Japan's postwar era, Otaku culture has evolved into a force driving global trends in art, fashion, and entertainment. This book will take you through the history of Otaku culture, its growth and development, and how it has influenced global society. Discover how Otaku culture has revolutionized the entertainment industry, with anime series such as "Attack on Titans," "Naruto" and "My Hero Academia" gaining worldwide acclaim and becoming part of mainstream entertainment. Learn about how anime has inspired artists from around the world to create original artwork and animations that capture the essence of the Otaku aesthetic. But the influence of Otaku culture goes beyond entertainment. Explore how it has impacted fashion, video games, and even politics. Learn about its contribution to the economy, its influence on art and style, and its relevance in an ever-changing globalized world. "The Influence of Otaku Culture" also examines the criticisms and negative stereotypes associated with Otaku culture and the challenges of integrating it into society. It also discusses its role in education and tourism and explores possible future developments of Otaku culture. This book is a must-read for any fan of anime, manga, and Japanese culture, as well as those interested in the sociology of pop culture. Don't miss this opportunity to understand how Otaku culture changes the world!
Fandom Unbound
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Author : Mizuko Ito
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-28
Fandom Unbound written by Mizuko Ito and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-28 with Social Science categories.
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as “geek'—an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, including anime, manga, and video games. Most important of all, as this collection shows, is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content. In this collection of essays, Japanese and American scholars offer richly detailed descriptions of how this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture created its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction, comics, costumes, and remixes, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media. By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, this groundbreaking collection provides fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
Otaku And The Struggle For Imagination In Japan
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Author : Patrick W. Galbraith
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-06
Otaku And The Struggle For Imagination In Japan written by Patrick W. Galbraith and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-06 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with “otaku” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate “otaku” culture into its branding of “Cool Japan.” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of “otaku” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of “otaku” and “cute girl” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (“the Holy Land of Otaku”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding “otaku” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, “otaku” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.
The Soul Of Anime
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Author : Ian Condry
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-11
The Soul Of Anime written by Ian Condry and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Social Science categories.
In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios—such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio Ghibli—Condry discusses how anime's fictional characters and worlds become platforms for collaborative creativity. He argues that the global success of Japanese animation has grown out of a collective social energy that operates across industries—including those that produce film, television, manga (comic books), and toys and other licensed merchandise—and connects fans to the creators of anime. For Condry, this collective social energy is the soul of anime.
Frames Of Anime
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Author : Tze-Yue G. Hu
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Frames Of Anime written by Tze-Yue G. Hu and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Social Science categories.
"Frames ofAnime provides a wonderfully concise and insightful historical overview of Japanese animation; more importantly, Tze-yue G. Hu also gives the reader a much-needed frame of reference--- cultural and historical --- for understanding its development." - Harvey Deneroff, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia "This is a valuable study that transcends most of its predecessors by situating Japanese anime in its cultural context and providing detailed insight into the lives and works of some of Japan's most prominent animators and their struggles to establish it as a legitimate form of cinema and television media. Its authorship by an Asian scholar also conversant with Chinese and Southeast Asian cinema and comic book culture gives it a unique comparative character."-John Clammer, United Nations University Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the "language-medium" of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. Her work, rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows how dialectical aspects of anime are linked to Japan's unique experience of modernity and its cultural associations in Asia, including its reliance on low-wage outsourcing. Her study also provides English readers with insights on numerous Japanese secondary sources, as well as a number of original illustrations offered by animators and producers she interviewed.
Cross Cultural Influences Between Japanese And American Pop Cultures
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Author : Kendra N. Sheehan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-05-26
Cross Cultural Influences Between Japanese And American Pop Cultures written by Kendra N. Sheehan and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-26 with Social Science categories.
This collection features examinations of popular culture, including manga, music, film, cosplay, and literature, among other topics. Using interdisciplinary sources and analyses, this collection adds to the global discussion and relevancy of Japanese popular culture. This collection serves to highlight the work of multidisciplinary scholars who offer fresh perspectives of ongoing cross-cultural and cyclical influences that are commonly found between the US and Japan. Notably, this collection considers the relationships that have influenced Japanese popular culture, and how this has, in turn, influenced the Western world.
Japanese Visual Culture
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Author : Mark W. MacWilliams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Japanese Visual Culture written by Mark W. MacWilliams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Social Science categories.
Born of Japan's cultural encounter with Western entertainment media, manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films) are two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture. Because they tell stories through visual imagery, they vault over language barriers. Well suited to electronic transmission and distributed by Japan's globalized culture industry, they have become a powerful force in both the mediascape and the marketplace.This volume brings together an international group of scholars from many specialties to probe the richness and subtleties of these deceptively simple cultural forms. The contributors explore the historical, cultural, sociological, and religious dimensions of manga and anime, and examine specific sub-genres, artists, and stylistics. The book also addresses such topics as spirituality, the use of visual culture by Japanese new religious movements, Japanese Goth, nostalgia and Japanese pop, "cute" (kawali) subculture and comics for girls, and more. With illustrations throughout, it is a rich source for all scholars and fans of manga and anime as well as students of contemporary mass culture or Japanese culture and civilization.
Globalization Consumption And Popular Culture In East Asia
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Author : Tai Wei Lim
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2016-09-02
Globalization Consumption And Popular Culture In East Asia written by Tai Wei Lim and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-02 with Political Science categories.
This book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era. Using a multidisciplinary approach including political economy, East Asian studies, political science, international relations concepts and history, this book focuses on a few research objectives. In terms of methodology, it is an area studies approach based on interpretative work, observation studies, policy and textual analysis. First, it aims to examine the closely intertwined relationship between the three major stakeholders in the iron triangle of production companies, consumers and states (i.e., role of government in policy promotion). Second, it studies the interpenetration, adaptation, innovation and hybridization of exogenous Western culture with traditional popular cultures in (North) East Asia. Third, it studies the influence of popular cultures and how cultural products resonate with a regional audience through collective consumption, contents reflective of normative values, the emotive and cognitive appeal of familiar images and social learning as well as peer effect found in fan communities. It then examines how consumption contributes to soft cultural influence and how governments leverage on its comparative advantages and cultural assets for commercial success and in the process augment national (cultural) influence. These questions will be discussed and analyzed and contextualized through the case studies of J-pop (Japanese popular culture), K-pop (Korean popular culture or Hallyu) and Chinese popular culture (including Mando-pop and Taiwanese popular culture).
Drawing On Tradition
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Author : Jolyon Baraka Thomas
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2012-10-31
Drawing On Tradition written by Jolyon Baraka Thomas and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Manga and anime (illustrated serial novels and animated films) are highly influential Japanese entertainment media that boast tremendous domestic consumption as well as worldwide distribution and an international audience. Drawing on Tradition examines religious aspects of the culture of manga and anime production and consumption through a methodological synthesis of narrative and visual analysis, history, and ethnography. Rather than merely describing the incidence of religions such as Buddhism or Shinto in these media, Jolyon Baraka Thomas shows that authors and audiences create and re-create “religious frames of mind” through their imaginative and ritualized interactions with illustrated worlds. Manga and anime therefore not only contribute to familiarity with traditional religious doctrines and imagery, but also allow authors, directors, and audiences to modify and elaborate upon such traditional tropes, sometimes creating hitherto unforeseen religious ideas and practices. The book takes play seriously by highlighting these recursive relationships between recreation and religion, emphasizing throughout the double sense of play as entertainment and play as adulteration (i.e., the whimsical or parodic representation of religious figures, doctrines, and imagery). Building on recent developments in academic studies of manga and anime—as well as on recent advances in the study of religion as related to art and film—Thomas demonstrates that the specific aesthetic qualities and industrial dispositions of manga and anime invite practices of rendition and reception that can and do influence the ways that religious institutions and lay authors have attempted to captivate new audiences. Drawing on Tradition will appeal to both the dilettante and the specialist: Fans and self-professed otaku will find an engaging academic perspective on often overlooked facets of the media and culture of manga and anime, while scholars and students of religion will discover a fresh approach to the complicated relationships between religion and visual media, religion and quotidian practice, and the putative differences between “traditional” and “new” religions.
Otaku Odyssey Uncovering The Anime And Manga Subculture In Japan
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Author : Claire Austin
language : en
Publisher: T Turner
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Otaku Odyssey Uncovering The Anime And Manga Subculture In Japan written by Claire Austin and has been published by T Turner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Travel categories.
The scene opens with two well-known anime characters, Naruto and Luffy, sitting on a bench in a park. Naruto is holding a copy of "Otaku Odyssey: Uncovering the Anime and Manga Subculture in Japan" and is flipping through the pages, looking excited. Luffy is sitting next to him, munching on a piece of meat, looking curious. Naruto: "Luffy, have you heard about this new book? It's called "Otaku Odyssey: Uncovering the Anime and Manga Subculture in Japan." It's a guide for foreigners who are interested in traveling to Japan primarily for anime and manga. Luffy: "Really? That sounds cool! What's it about?" Naruto: "It's got a lot of information about the otaku culture and the anime and manga subculture in Japan. It tells you about the best places to find anime and manga-related experiences, and it even has a section on cosplay and the best Otaku districts like Akihabara, Nakano Broadway and Ikebukuro." Luffy: "Wow, that sounds really awesome! I've always wanted to visit Japan and check out all the anime and manga stuff there. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of this book!" Naruto: "Me too, Luffy! It's going to be a great resource for our next adventure in Japan. Let's make sure to grab a copy and start planning our trip!" Luffy: "Yeah, let's do it! Gomu Gomu no Otaku Odyssey!" As the scene ends, the two friends high-five and continue discussing the book, excited for their upcoming trip to Japan and the new experiences they will have in the land of the rising sun.