Fair warning: If you haven’t seen episode eight of Durarara!!, you might want to wait on this post. I’m now about halfway through Hiroki Azuma’s essay Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals, which I got right around the time I wrote about Chu-Bra!!.  It’s brilliant stuff, a gripping blend of scholarly rigor and accessibility.  And apparently he’s already [...]
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