#''otaku studies''..........

[perilegs]

i made an account on some academia site to download a paper published about BL and now my account looks like this

[centrally-unplanned]

Since it came up in @canmom's post a bit ago I actually had a scrapped (I think at least, sorry if this is a repeat) mini-note on Kimi Rito's History of Hentai Manga. It was published in English by Fakku, an eromanga distributor, under that title:

It says "expressionist examination" in the subtitle but that is inherently lessor to anyone scanning it. As a book, you think it's gonna be, you know, a history of hentai manga. But it's not! It's an examination of the "semiotics" of hentai manga, from things like ahegao to tentacles to "the nipple afterimage" not making that one up its a chapter. And when it was published in Japanese this reality was a lot more clear:

Expression is the focus, not hentai as a wider category. Because, after all, its not like a history of hentai manga doesn't exist - Kimi Rito himself helped write it! And its also available in English!

(He supervised the 2014 update, Nagayama is the main writer). The issue is that the above was an academic publication, and from the Amsterdam University Press at that. It also uses the phrase "Erotic comics" for said academic market. Meanwhile, Fakku's publication was sold in mainstream bookstores and is called exactly what someone is going to search if they are interested in this topic. The Anglophone world does not say erotic comics, or even eromanga (despite my futile attempts to shift the needle), or distinguish between drawn and animated and all that crap. We say hentai. So when a curious person googles the obvious thing:

They get a book that is gonna be kind of bad for them, actually, as it is very niche and probably too high-context. While meanwhile a real resource completely exists that is what they want, but isn't gonna show up.

I can't fault Fakku for their marketing savvy, but I do think I can fault them for their white lie on the title here - its not quiiite as white as they may have hoped. May this be a PSA for everyone out there - Kimi Rito's book is the 201 textbook, don't start there based on the title alone.

[capyperrland]

𝙑𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙑𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚

𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦/𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘸𝘶

[stem-diaries]

10-06-2024

first exam of the session (plant biology) done! I know I did at least 1 question wrong but it could be much worse. let's hope for the best!

my next exam is this Thursday, analytic chemistryᕙ⁠(⁠⇀⁠‸⁠↼⁠‶⁠)⁠ᕗ

I'm so tempted to make an Instagram page about my room and weeb collector stuff but I really don't want people who know me irl to find it lol. maybe I'll make a sideblog here(??)

[fr3shm3at]

２０２４年０９月１９日

　何もすごい

Another night studying mandarin, got to stream tonight and post a lot of content i been working on all last week… I finished my squid ball snacks that have peanuts in the middle like how peanut m&m’s are but with a cracker shell. I got the non spicy bc i got a lot of spicy food…

[i01-xcl]

WIP09_"serene"

[gemaesteria]

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[omiraopo]

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Introvert log ღ Slice of life

Hello,

my name is mira and I am 17 years old. Welcome to my slice of life blog.

“never thought I’d find you but you’re here, and so I love you” - Beabadoobee

𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿𐬿

[chilltouhoubeats]

Koishi’s Theme - Hartmann’s Youkai Girl 

Lofi, Chill Beat Remix by Moon-Tone 🎧

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[astowlfo]

2021

[lachoco]

Notebook: Lined Pages with Decoration

Are you looking for a new notebook? Do you like anime? If yes, this notebook will be perfect for you. It contains 120 double-sided lined pages. Each page is decorated with a fantasy motif to bring uniqueness to the notebook. On the cover, you will find an anime-inspired image to satisfy your inner otaku. This notebook will be perfect for writing notes, thoughts, or dreams.

[centrally-unplanned]

This was a good article on the cultural trope of the "menhera", mentally-ill girls with a focus on self-harm that is its own aesthetic and trope. It has relatively little "academic culture studies bullshit" you have to wade through to get to the actually good information, fresh air for me!

The history of the term it outlines is a datapoint for pattern confirmation of how so much internet culture evolved from the 2000's to the modern era. Early 2000's 2ch pioneered the term self-referentially, a tag for their own identity as depressed, largely-male otaku & neets. Discussions of self-harm came up in those threads, but menhera was never used in them; it was a more general term. Then, starting in the mid-2000's, 2chan had a growing population of highly social-political, vaguely-right-coded posters, in newly founded boards like nyusoku, who started using the word for outsiders; both other online-types but also young girls as part of gender discourse. Here is was primarily pejorative; attention seeking BDP-cursed losers.

But like so many things these communities were never isolated, nor were they monocultures; plenty of women and others with different views hung out on them, discoursed about it, and so on - and the terms captured real things in the culture, so the first mover lock-in was a go. And then in the 2010's, the internet massively changed with the rise of smartphones. In Japan "everyone" was already online a little bit earlier, but still the growing ease of uploading diverse content allowed ideas that were previously inaccessible in text-heavy forums broke out via comics, photos, videos, etc - with the people best positioned to take advantage of that being those who had been around the web for a while, and knew all this weird 2ch stuff. A raft of mainly female artists started drawing autobiographical-ish comics explicitly labelling themselves as menhera; all the same so-called negative behaviors, but made cute, funny, and self-aware.

That early media proceeds to be humorous and mocking, but still "authentic" to the artists, who are depressives themselves. But after that initial earnest era, the symbols get tropified - now you can just cosplay Needy Streamer Overload and it is just a look, a costume you take on and off as you see fit. As the article is obligated to do when it quotes Hiroki Azuma, it is now part of the "database" of internet culture.

You can sub a lot of culture objects in Japan & America both into that same timeline - a mixed of social & technological forces pushing niche internet ideas into the mainstream where they are sanitized. Though here Japan's depolitical culture made this transition easier - I don't think wearing "self-harm bracelets" to give you that ~slit-wrist aesthetic~ plays quite as well in the West because of expectations that sensitive topics be treated with more seriousness. But you can learn as much from the divergence as you can from the consensus, so that just adds to the parallel for me.

[capyperrland]

𝙅𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙑𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚

[darklight-owl]

WAAA... SO CUTES...

[hentaicommissions]

Hospitalization - study, study!

[thefelterthatsews]

Made a #punchneedle #embroidery piece of #murr from the #manga and #anime series #thecasestudyofvanitas . I do apologize for not making anything in over a week. I was just grieving about my good friend that lost to cancer, but he made the choice to take the MAiD program to end his life. He will be missed, he was a good and supportive friend of mine when I was still struggling, plus he was one of my first friends that I made in #terracebc when I first moved there. So I made some artwork to make me feel better about the loss. #handmade #weebtiktok #animecat #vanitas #otaku #animeart #recycledart #漫画 #アニメ #ヴァニタスの手記カルテ #ムル #ねこ #猫 #かわいい #かわいいひと