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"Feeling Otaku" - Interview with Didier Volckaert after the "Asian Conference on Media, Communication and Film" in Kobe (2017)

h ttp://www.mediastudies.asia/feeling-otaku-interview-with-didier-volckaert-by-jian-tan-klein/
>some months ago there was an otaku who posted in tears on 2chan that his waifu had made clear to him she wanted to end their relationship. This is the first recorded break-up in a human–character relationship from the side of the 2D!
I need details on this! lel

conference theme was "History, Story, Narrative"; Didier presentation was titled "Animated Life - A Manifest of Otaku Culture"
details in the PDF with the programme: h ttps://mediasia.iafor.org/previous-events/

>Since the start of the Heisei era (1989-) the media and public have been associating otaku with mental sickness: perverted by imagery and moe, otaku lack basic social skills, empathy, even self-awareness. Otaku has become a symbol of the decline in Japanese values by entertainment consumerism. To me otaku culture is not a symptom, neither is it Japanese; it’s a global avant-garde that can offer strategies to cope with (and survive) our current state of hypernormalisation and postmodern myopic. A self-improving mind set that is able to (re-)question identity, sexuality and our relationship with technology and future forms of life.