@80000divastrike I think the Dark Souls thing is more like related to "fandom". Most people wouldn't care about the lore if there weren't youtube videos about it.
Why has this flawed book gotten so popular again after like 20 years?
I don't know which YouTuber is responsible for this, but people mostly use it to justify their dislike of "modern" otaku art.
Otaku Studies are a real area of rapidly developing academic research in Japan.
@80000divastrike Please read "Otaku: Japan's Database Animals" to understand why comparing otaku media to the academic literary world is a waste of time.
@urqueh Current scholarship usually regards database consumption (modular character design, trope recognition etc) as one mechanism among many instead of a complete description of "animalized" otaku physiology & recognizes there is still characterization present in fragmentary narratives
@djpyscho10646 The book makes several claims, what are you most interested in? I'll tell you now things like the narrative/database "rupture" are basically made up and ignore the evolution of Japan's media mix strategy. Beautiful Fighting Girl is good for an alternate account of otaku desire.
@djpyscho10646 The book makes several claims, what are you most interested in? I'll tell you now things like the narrative/database "rupture" are basically made up and ignore the evolution of Japan's media mix strategy. Beautiful Fighting Girl is good for an alternate account of otaku desire.
@StrayDogYusu@sphinx_cj It's not debatable because most everything is "derivative" of "a more competent work".
That's a meaningless statement that also discredits tons of non otaku art.
It also discredits the areas in which otaku art has penetrated the mainstream.
What did you expect? In games like imas the characters are treated as people within a larger context.
The idol industry is the subject and not just an aesthetic vehicle for celeb/fandom stuff, they show the characters being contradictory, manufactured, reduced to products, etc
i actually think the funniest thing abt holodori is that fans of girl idol games & franchises have spent decades refuting slander of them only having vapid cutesy stories with no substance and here comes cover corp to set us back ten years
At this atp I'm convinced being an EOP is like wandering Saṃsāra for thousands of years.
You exist in state of deferral & dependence, incapable of perceiving reality directly. Your engagement with the original is mediated & conditioned by the quality of the linguistic vehicle.
@GAYBARDS He knows Japanese. In general the "point" of his posts is to make non Japanese speakers realize how bad most fan translations are and to make Japanese speakers defend AI because both the AI and human translation are flawed in many ways. One just took more time.