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
Du 22 au 26 avril 2009, le Salon du livre et de la presse de Genève accueille pour la première fois un Village Manga, organisé par les associations Yume et Omusubi.
Il y avait certes eu le Japan Manga Festival, en 2007, mais celui-ci avait été organisé en annexe de l’événement principal et il fallait payer [...]
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 [...]