You maybe now wondering why you're seeing Di Gi Charat here being used as a figure model and pointing out descriptors. Well let me enlighten you! This is from a well respected book from famous Otaku and Otaku analysis Eiji Ōtsuka called [i]Otaku Japan's Da

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 02:01:05 No.146650

You maybe now wondering why you're seeing Di Gi Charat here being used as a figure model and pointing out descriptors. Well let me enlighten you! This is from a well respected book from famous Otaku and Otaku analysis Eiji Ōtsuka called Otaku Japan's Database Animals and here you'll the learn the meta on being an Otaku and what it means. So have a read and feel free to discuss.

https://mogami.neocities.org/files/otaku.pdf

He has also written about narrative consumption in todays age. what is narrative consumption?

Narrative consumption involves the relationship between "grand narratives" or "worldviews" and "small narratives" or "variations". The concept of worldview or world (sekai), which comes from anime production and kabuki tradition, refers to the entire world or setting of a work of fiction. Each individual story told within that universe (such as an episode or even a season of television) is a small narrative, or a variation of the worldview.

Taken from Wikipedia.

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 02:10:45 No.146662

What do you think of the talk that Azuma gave years after his book was published, as a kind of postmortem?
It's on Youtube and he conducted the whole thing in English, for some reason.

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 02:46:48 No.146708

We had a thread about this some time ago about academics, which of course derailed and crashed horribly due to Evangelion.
I haven't fully read it but I've gone through some chunks of it, and his analysis of Rei expies is very poignant:
>The emergence of Ayanami Rei did not inﬂuence many authors so much as change the rules of the moe-elements sustaining otaku culture. As a result, even those authors who were not deliberately thinking of Evangelion unconsciously began to produce characters closely resembling Rei, using newly registered moe-elements (quiet personality, blue hair, white skin, mysterious power).
>Beyond Rei, characters emerging in otaku works were not unique to individual works but were immediately broken into moe-elements and recorded by consumers, and then the elements reemerged later as material for creating new characters. Therefore, each time a popular character appeared, the moe-element database changed accordingly, and as a result, in the next season there were heated battles among the new genera tion of characters featuring new moe-elements.
A classic, and very true.
>>146662
This one, pic?

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 02:55:26 No.146715

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>>146662
It's definitely interesting when mention how Otaku attempt recreate a polis in its own way, way that tries to capture past ideals. I reminds me of the American cowboy fighting to keep a dying old west alive through unpolitical but also kinda ironically political means.
>>146708
>We had a thread about this some time ago about academics, which of course derailed and crashed horribly due to Evangelion.
Oh no...I wasn't aware of this.

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 02:58:27 No.146717

>>146715
Ah, I was typing that has I was listening and I totally flubbed my grammar...

Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 02:58:28 No.146718

I'll have to read this later...

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