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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:55 Sponsor
03:12 Thesis
04:47 Performativity Addendum
07:09 Otaku
07:55 Problems of Masculinity
11:10 My Dress Up Darling
13:11 The Hina Dolls
18:48 Sajuna
19:19 Himeno Amane
20:40 Sympathy for Otaku Issues
21:37 "Be Yourself"
Resources
"Cosplay: Discovering a Sense of Self Through Fandom." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n53FTLOTjM8, The Japan Foundation & CGP, NY
"Judith Butler: Your Behaviour Creates Your Gender." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7o2LYATDc. For more details, Butler's Bodies That Matter expands on this, if you want to actually read her work and not go through a Big Think video.
SandTalon also recommended “Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance,” for a more lucid explanation.
Condry, Ian. The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story.
Cosplay Japan. "涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱." http://animecos.blog97.fc2.com/blog-entry-17.html
Four Heavenly Kings of Akiba. https://twitter.com/skd7/status/1158529235809525760/photo/2
Galbraith, Patrick. Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan
Hidaka, Tomoko. Salaryman Masculinity: Continuity and Change in Hegemonic Japan.
Photos are from "Otaku Spaces" by Androniki Christodoulou.
Skanda's Random Site. "最強集結！！ロバートの全日本オタクサミット…秋葉原の裏側初潜入." http://digadiga.blog75.fc2.com/blog-entry-130.html
Tomomi, Yamanaka. "Birth of 'Otaku': Centring on Discourse Dynamics in Manga Burikko." Chapter in Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan: Historical Perspectives and New Horizons. Edited by Patrick Galbraith, Thiam Huat Kam, and Bjorn-Ole Kamm.
Tran, Van. Overview of Doujinshi Part 2.1 - The Lore of Comiket. https://thevaultpublication.com/2020/02/26/overview-of-doujinshi-part-2-1-the-lore-of-comiket/
Audio by Skrullz
daily trip down the freeway
big pile of fishing gaming
meaningless hum
Commentary
This video was meant to be five minutes at most. I thought it’d be fun to take a look at some of the similarities Gojo has, and I think his character is woefully under-analysed compared to a lot of the other stuff discussed. I also found that a lot of discussion about Gojo heavily leaned into the same stereotypes and assumptions that otaku discourse occurred, so it seemed like a pretty serendipitous relationship.
I’ve been reading Sono Bisque since it began, and I have a lot of stray thoughts on it. I just chose the one that I thought would fit a five minute video. Welp, turned out to be more of a five minute video.