Yet more embracing of the embarrassing: according to Japan Today, an academic society will be launched to study Gundam, perhaps with research into futurology (futurology???), which seems to be “foretelling a future image of the world.” The brief article’s description of Gundam is interesting:
Set in a future world where people emigrate […]
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The Academics Strike Again: Gundam is SRS BSNS
Published by July 31st, 2008 in academic and anime. 4 CommentsI know that there’s a lot of manga and anime out there, but reading about this talk in Japan by a doctoral candidate on “Embracing the Embarrassing: Japanese Governmental Policies towards the Anime Industry” an image popped into my head of a bunch of 60-year old Japanese government officials with droning voices trying to explain […]
I recently read that Susan Napier has a new book coming out in November called: From Impressionism To Anime: Japan As Fantasy And Fan Cult In The Western Imagination. There are already some books out that relate to the Western fascination with Japan in the past, and its long been obvious that the current […]
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