Essays about: "anime culture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words anime culture.

  1. 1. Mangaesque Characters in Physical Space: An ethnographic study of butler café Swallowtail as female sanctuary

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

    Author : Carolina Lindström; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Since the 1970s, Japanese contemporary popular culture as an academic field has gained increased attention, which has led to the emergence of fan culture and fandom studies. There is a certain academic bias toward otaku (i.e. READ MORE

  3. 2. Engaged in Translation : Fandom Production in The Latin America's Anime Community of Syncrajo

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Emilio Gonzalez Gonzalez Pliego; [2021]
    Keywords : Fansubs; Free Labour; Prosumers; Co-Creation; Engagement; Disengagement.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Fansub (Fan-subtitled) is the term coined after the action of subtitling a foreign audio-visual production. Fansubs started being studied after the phenomenon started gaining popularity within communities of anime fans that used them as a way of access to the products they desire to consume. READ MORE

  4. 3. Game Complex

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : JIN GU; [2020]
    Keywords : game complex;

    Abstract : This project is a new type of game center in the "game paradise" Akihabara, Tokyo. In Japan, anime, cosplay, Game industry and virtual world have developed very mature and attractive, while in the reality society, most people are under great pressure. READ MORE

  5. 4. Practically Naked: Fan Service in Anime as Hyper-Gendered Performances of Spectacle

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Mimosa Wittenfelt; [2020]
    Keywords : Fan Service; Anime; Ecchi; Otaku; Fan Culture; Gender Performance; Spectacle; Gender Representation; Judith Butler; Guy Debord; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis combines Judith Butler’s concept of gender understood as a performance and Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle in order to apply it onto the sexually charged imagery in anime known as “fan service.” In doing so, it endeavours to answer what visually constitutes a gendered performance in fan service, and how those visuals can be read as a form of spectacle. READ MORE

  6. 5. A comparative study of approaches to audiovisual translation

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Japanska

    Author : Silvia Aldea; [2016]
    Keywords : audiovisual translation; subtitling; dubbing; translation quality; anime;

    Abstract : For those who are not new to the world of Japanese animation, known mainly as anime, the debate of "dub vs. sub" is by no means anything out of the ordinary, but rather a very heated argument amongst fans. READ MORE