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[gabrielsapp-creator]

"Simple and tedious tasks like accumulating experience points are perfect for shut-ins who have an endless amount of time on their hands."

Shinichi

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The Melancholy of Her Imperial Majesty

[crypticpawart]

AI Art Part 23 | My Hero Academia Winnie the Pooh

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[centrally-unplanned]

Saw this really cool post of a 1982 "SF" (Science fiction but in Japan that included things like anime, manga, tokusatsu, etc at the time) magazine that did a survey of active fan groups/circles at the time - ~woo, precious data! Lets see what we got:

Love to see a good gender breakdown - as is often the case in these things, while it is of course majority men the number of women participating is very strong. You do notice the age imbalance there - many women in their teens and college-aged, but it drops off quickly. I suspect that this is primarily because this survey is right in the middle of the first wave of the "pop SF boom", where more approachable works like Gundam and new manga subgenres were rapidly growing the community. So the older cadre was more heavily men, while the new group is more balanced. However, this is the early 1980's - it might just be that when a woman graduates college she was expected to marry and "settle down" still, inhibiting participation in these kinds of groups. I think it is primarily the former, Japan had pretty rapidly changed in the 1970's and female creative types were commonplace by then, but I won't pretend the latter players no role.

The writing on this page just contextualizes the piece, not much to report, though it does note that "3 people replied 'other' for gender...as a joke!" Sure, jan!

Anyway, on to page 2, what is our poll question of the day...

ロリコンについてどう思いますか? What do you think about lolicon?

....*siiiiiighs* guys I didn't, I didn't look at the second page before typing this up! I just wanted to report the gender data! This just happens to me, I swear -_-

But I can't back out now I guess:

It actually splits the question by gender - men are asked "are you a lolicon" while women are asked "what do you think of guys who are lolicon" - sexists, way to erase the female lolicon. Not actually joking there, it is a quite a thing due to its overlap with rape and dubcon fetishes - but I won't pretend I have expertise on the prevalence of that in 1982 Japan's SF community, even if it you see it today. Anyway, most men are not lolicons (the tallest line), though others fall on a spectrum from interested to "graduated", certainly a choice of words one could make.

Funnily a good dozen say they are called that by others, but not themselves - I believe that is related to the vague line between loli & shoujo aesthetics at the time. Which is important to emphasize, as I always do on this topic - sometimes the word lolicon just means "youthful" or "cute", sometimes it means like high schoolers, and sometimes it means real-deal underage stuff, and you won't know without context.

Meanwhile two women label lolicon men as "cute!", good for those two living their truth, while others are broadly tolerant but have Opinions. Which is fun, because the rest of the page is people sharing said opinions, sorted into "good" or "bad"! Some choice ones:

★ It's a symptom of modern civilization’s sick parts, but also an inevitable phenomenon. It’s better than having a rabbit or cat complex. Don’t lay hands on young girls. Lolicon must remain platonic. (♂/19/)

You see this theme a bit, "symptom of modernity", the new sexual fetishes are a product of a changing world. Certainly up for debate, but also very "in vogue" for the 80's & 90's to worry about that sort of declinist narrative. Then again, guy is a catgirl and bunnygirl hater, not sure we should listen to their shit taste.

On the flip side you get the "natural way of things" types, of which this is my favourite:

★ There’s nothing abnormal about having a dream involving an uncontrollable urge towards pre-teens. Even Romeo and Juliet would have made Romeo a lolicon given Juliet’s age (14), but people don’t think of it that way. Only at that age can girls love and respect men without ulterior motives. (♂/19/)

That last line, you are telling me so much about you with that one!! You can see how this is discourse, right? Like if one side says you are a "symptom of modernity" you ofc respond with "this is how all guys are" and with callbacks to traditional culture.

The "bad" side has a lot of ruthless condemnation, with more than one call for the lolicons to simply die or labelling them worthless scum. The magazine's writers do try to keep the tone breezy but I do think this topic being actually contentious in the community pokes through here. Though this serious one really did undercut herself a bit at the end:

★ I can understand why one person of the same gender might feel admiration or affection for a child or young girl, but for a man to only be able to love much younger women? That’s a mental illness! If they aren’t willing to fix themselves, they might as well die. They’re enemies of women. It's not going to turn out like Nabokov's Lolita. (♀/20s/)

I mean they did also kill jesus Humbert Humbert in Lolita. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill the Lolita guy.

There is an editorial at the end, and it echoes something one of the comments also states; that the lolicon boom was seen as coming from "hard" SF fans, the people who did the really nerdy stuff. There is a word they use actually which is neat: 根暗/Nekura, meaning someone with a "gloomy root". It began seeing use as a slang for hyper-serious, boorish people in the late 1970's and became a fad to use in precisely 1982 - here is a live record of that! They associate "hard SF" fans with these sort of gloomy types who can't take a joke or appreciate hanging out with the buds at a bar, that kind of thing. From there, and here I am reading between the lines, these fans like a sort of "idealistically sterile" world, and lolicon as a preference (in comparison to Real Adult Women) flows naturally.

I mention this because astute readers might be going "oh, like otaku?" and that word was only just buzzing around at this time - it is typically dated to 1983. The editorial writers note that these nekura-types are nowadays proud of that fact, wearing it like an identity:

A: I’m not really sure why, I don’t fully understand the inner workings of the SF world, but it’s like, out there, hardcore SF fans are considered gloomy. Maybe that’s why there’s this connection to lolicon? B: But surprisingly, everyone’s actually pretty cheerful. In today’s world, the 'dark and gloomy tribe' is trendy. It’s like they’re enjoying calling themselves gloomy, almost as a fashion statement.

So yeah, I can totally see proto-otaku discourse going on at the edges here.

There is a third page but it continues in a similar vein. A bunch of mentions of Hideo Azuma, who I am growing increasingly convinced was more of a lodestone for the lolicon boom than is currently appreciated - he is the ur-reference everyone makes. More discussion of girls in sailor uniforms as a gateway drug, yeah yeah, "is fine as long as its fiction", of course of course, one of the magazine editors remarking he wants "a wife for practical uses but a daughter as a pet" yeah okay we can call it we're done here, no more survey data anyway.

Not the topic I expected to find, but still this is really valuable "primary source data" - you can't trust the literary class fully on these things, having first hand quotes from community members on otaku culture in the era is always valuable.

Sorry if you got tricked into reading this - in my defense I did too!

[lin-of-the-linkverse]

I've seen a lot of people complaining about the "anime" feel of Engage, and yes, I agree it definitely feels more anime compared to previous titles, but, I'm gonna try to explain why I think this happened

Fire Emblem has always taken inspiration from anime, even from as early as FE3. at first it was smaller details, like hair shapes, face proportions, etc. However, as time moved on, these inspirations became more noticeable. Why? Well it's because Fire Emblem's art direction mirrors that of anime. I'll explain here.

FE3/FE5 were made in the 90's, with exaggerated, poofy hair and big eyes, seen here:

And the anime of the time:

What about the early 2000's? FE7 was released in that decade, and the style has changed a bit, with more square squared eyes and more defined chins

FE9/FE10 also came out in the 2000's, with more stylised female characters akin to those of School Days or Higurashi:

From here, the influence dials up a notch, with 2010's anime being more, I don't know how to put this, modernised? This Otkau Magazine article explains it better

And what of 2020 anime? Much more expressive and "moe". Just like Fire Emblem Engage.

In conclusion, Fire Emblem has evolved with anime itself into what it is today. whether you think that's a good thing or not is up to you to decide.

[sephirajo]

Like I can't say how frustrating lack of reviews and comments are for me on ao3 doubly so when I've been told by people I've met online randomly I'm on dragon age rec lists but NO ONE FUCKING COMMENTS and then I get asked "why don't you write much anymore" like bitch not only am I starving most days literally but you know how depressing it is to pour your heart in to something, never get any feedback and then get grilled by people as to why you don't do x thing much anymore.

I had the same thing happen in the kamishibai community on otkau world people would come up and ask me why I wasn't doing much of it months after putting out something that got no reaction from anyone anywhere (and I would lurk on those forums to check)

I just feel invisible. And like my stuff must suck.

[otakusenpa1]

Welcome One & All

My name is Otaku Senpai. I was dubbed this name by friends who noticed something. I have over 700+ anime titles under my belt. That's right, a shit ton. So they granted me this name. A Senpai of Otakus. Now don't be alarmed, I'm just an ordinary person with hobbies and dreams. So yeah, you can just call me Senpai.

HOBBIES

Well, for one. Anime. But that's an obvious one. Secondly, Twitch Streaming. I play chill games to chill music and even sometimes D&D. That brings up the third hobby. D&D.

Play, DM, talk about, write. D&D is fantastic. Fourth, YouTube. Its been a minute but I create anime and Otaku related content, like AMVs and Vlogs. Lastly, photography. I do all sorts of photography but love to do cosplay and landscape photography.

BLOGS

I enjoy writing. In all senses. Either creating character backgrounds, food for thought, etc. In this instance, you will see reviews on anime, anime seasons, anime award shows, etc. I'm hoping to become more and more active as the year progresses and I get back in the habit of doing this.

And there you have it. I will be doing a Q&A blog later on with any questions you ask me and some from past experience. I hope that we will get along and become great friends. Until then...

I hope you have an anime filled rest of your day.

~ Otaku Senpai

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[themetalheadhippy]

Just finished JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable and I have three things to say;

1) Koichi should've been a Jostar instead of Josuke.

2) When Kira said the hands of Mona Lisa gave him a hardcore boner made me choke 😂😂😂😂 I wasn't expecting that.

3) I'm hardcore simping for adult Jotaro.

[relatableanimethings]

Another amazing cover by your beloved @osomatsusanki & @miiuusagi ! Please listen to our cover and dive into 2014 memories! ☆ 😎

[kawaii-united]

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[kensaiftion]

#Quote: I don't have a SHORT TEMPER, I just have Quick reaction to BULLSHIT. -Katsuki Bakugou #Event: Anime fans Subject: Full #background design and edits #Model: @jj_dawn.113 #Cosplay: Katsuki Bakugou #Anime: @myheroacademia ( Boku no hero academia ). Opinion: ? :). . . . . Note: in case any #Cosplayer looking for edit and modify feel #free to msg me directly :D . . . . #costumedesign #costume #design #bokunoheroacademia #myheroacademia #KatsukiBakugou #myheroacademiacosplay #otkau #bakugou #bakugoucosplay #photography #cosplayofinstagram #artist #craft #manga #mha #bakugouedit #handmadecosplay #katsu https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvwdfr9BoCx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kow4cpmtsbr1

[cosmos-kurenai-blog]

. . . . . . .. . . . #deathnote #onepunchman #otaku #swordartonline #onepiece #fairytail #manga #tokyoghoul #attackontitan #naruto #anime #kawaii #cosplay #animegirl #animeworld #otkau

[otakusocialista]

Como el trabajador asalariado No hace un partido politico para revolucionar el Estado, esto sucede

La olla de presion explota, por seguir creyendo que los partidos burgueses van a hacer algo.

Recuerda NO hacerle caso a nadie que no busque abolir el trabajo asalariado. Ya es hora de formar filas, y hacerles sentir que son un grupusculo.

As the salaried worker does not make a political party to revolutionize the state, this happens. The pressure cooker explodes, for continuing to believe that the bourgeois parties are going to do something. Remember NOT to listen to anyone who does not seek to abolish wage labor. It's time to line up, and make them feel like they're a bunch

[ms-srgnt--otakuwitch-blog]

kanato is a cute baby..

[benjaminasnow]

'Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain You would not understand This is not how I am I have become comfortably numb' "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd High key, when I saw her backstory in Ep. 7 about how she doesn't find joy in anything (sans pain), that song was playing in my head. Maybe its a reach, but I think the hook and some of the themes of that song fits her. #Kakegurui #kakeguruianime #MidariIkishima #anime #manga #otkau

[imrorel-blog]

Classroom Of the Elite episode 6 Discussion!! please give a view here and let me know what you guys think

[chenrsf]

Drawing of my bias Suga XD