Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: April 28, 2009
For those of you out there who have had issues with the concept of “otaku” and wish to go deeper into its implication for (post-)modern mass media consumption, this new book is for you! Hiroki Azuma, one of the most prominent young Japanese literary critic and philosopher, has been writing about Otakus for some years [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: April 21, 2009
Otaku2 – Doujinshi and Law
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This is something I have been thinking about recently. The manga industry has everything to gain from the dojinshi circles, for two reasons.
First, dojinshi has been fostered by the practice of the manga editors as far back as the 1930’s, when the first prepublication magazines encouraged readers to send [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: May 29, 2008
It has arrived!!
My 3 copies of “Il drago e la saeta” have arrived this morning! Marco Pellitteri has very kindly sent me these so that I can present them to people who should be able to help me get this new important contribution to research on globalized Japanese popular culture translated in French and maybe [...]