/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>19399089
I know, sorry, I should have specified

upcoming issues of Mechademia look interesting:

Vol. 11.1 "Childhood" will be published in autumn 2018
Vol. 12.1 "Transnational Fandom" will be published in spring 2019:

h ttps://www.mechademia.net/2018/01/05/cfp-for-mechademia-12-1-transnational-fandoms/
>Transnational fandoms of specific media in anime, manga, gaming, film, toys, and literature
>Fans in the media (Depictions of otaku, BL fans/fujoshi, female gamers, etc. in film, television, manga, journalism, and digital media)
>Amateur and semi-professional fan media (Doujin goods, “Amerimanga,” fan fiction, AMVs, fanart)
>Performative communities (Cosplay, Nico nico Douga dance parties, anime theme song group dances, practices of fan pilgrimage)

Vol. 12.2 "Materialities Across Asia" will be published in autumn 2019:

h ttps://www.mechademia.net/2018/02/15/cfp-for-mechademia-12-2-materialities-across-asia/
>Collecting and collector culture
>Ephemera and memorabilia
>Representing “living objects”: robots, cyborgs, automata, and figures
>Subcultures based on material objects, collections, fashions, etc.

brief excerpts of the content of the Mechademia journal vol. 1 to 10 are available here:

h ttps://muse.jhu.edu/journal/461

some articles are available in full; for example:

Waiting for the Messiah: The Becoming-Myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko
h ttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/368621