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Has there ever been an academic or literary attempt at writing about mecha manga/anime? Lots of stuff exists for 'regular' Japanese animation, but I'm looking for some reading about Japan's fixation on fictional robots.
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dorkly_chair at instituteforspacepolitics.org
2017-04-11 06:18:46
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>>15423760
Loving The Machine covers Japan's interest in robots at large, including fictional robots, but mostly real stuff.
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>>15423819
Thanks for the suggestion.
Bumping for any others.
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dorkly_chair at instituteforspacepolitics.org
2017-04-12 03:10:17
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>>15425468
there's also this
It's kinda shit. Seems like some college kid remembered that he had a paper due and bullshitted up a bunch of words based on the VHS tapes his nerd roommate had.
You can read it for free at http://members.efn.org/~dredmond/VCIntro.PDF
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>>15425477
looks like that's just the intro, never mind
there used to be a copy on something like the university's website or somewhere, I forget
I have pics of a few of the Eva-related pages. Maybe I can find them.
sage for 2x
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>>15423760
http://tohno-chan.com/ddl/src/Japanese_Animation_Guide_The_History_of_Robot_Anim.pdf
Exactly what you're looking for. It's a pretty good read.
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dorkly_chair at instituteforspacepolitics.org
2017-04-12 03:18:48
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here we go
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>>15423760
The Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs commissioned an essay of just such a thing.
>>>/tg/52660153
Pardon the shitty link but I'm no good at crossboarding stuff.
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dorkly_chair at instituteforspacepolitics.org
2017-04-12 03:19:49
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>>15425488
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dorkly_chair at instituteforspacepolitics.org
2017-04-12 03:22:38
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>>15425488
I've got pdfs enabled on 8/m/ but I'm not sure if direct linking to there is an issue here these days.
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dorkly_chair at instituteforspacepolitics.org
2017-04-12 03:23:42
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2017-04-12 03:24:45
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and thus ends what I have handy from this book
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"Academic" writing about anime is usually a collection baseless assertions by people with only a passing familiarity, making sweeping and incorrect statements in an attempt to seem deep to other casuals.
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