Understanding Disaster, Part 2: Akira and the Postmodern Apocalypse Pause and Select 2016-06-07 | IMPORTANT: It has come to my attention that this is unavailable on mobile. My sincerest apologies, it's a copyright claim that's limiting me. PC should work fine.PART 1 is here: youtube.com/watch?v=kvvUiXc6m7UWell this took quite a while. Yo this vid's got spoilers, watch out!Shoutouts to Cyanide Blizzard for helping me find books, cause holy moly finding stuff is tricky when it's all super expensive.Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - I did not monetize this video. It's been monetize by a copyright claimant - You can read Simon Newcomb's story titled "The End of the World" here: http://bit.ly/1X8eRaF - I forgot how long the manga was - I hope people know the difference between referential and recollective. I really do, because that would save me a lot of headaches - This can only go one way, and that's down, cause I'm talking about postmodernism and this isn't gonna be pleasant - Definitely one of my favourite South Park episode---Text: - Bolton, Christopher. "From Ground Zero to Degree Zero: Akira from Origin to Oblivion," Mechademia 9: 2014, 295-315. - Brown, Steven. "Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture," Palgrave, New York, 2010. - Freigburg, Freda. "Akira and the Postnuclear Sublime," edited by Mick Broderick, Routledge, New York, 1996. - Fuller, Frank. "Anime and the Atom Bomb," The Conversation, http://bit.ly/1RWf09c, accessed May 25, 2016. - "Modules on Jameson," Post-modernism, http://bit.ly/25JRKIG, accessed June 1, 2016. - Napier, Susan. "Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle," Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2005. - Napier, Susan. "Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira," Journal of Japanese Studies 19 (2): 1993, 327-351. - Paik, Peter. "Review: The Freshness of Ruins," Science Fiction Studies 42 (3): 2015, 601-604. - Shapiro, Jerome. "Atomic Bomb Cinema: The apocalyptic Imagination on film," Routledge, New York, 2002. - Standish, Isolde, "The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture," edited by Dolores Martinez, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1998. - Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypticism in Postwar Japanese Fiction," University of British Columbia, Thesis, 2011. - Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction," Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2014.---Media: - Katsuhiro Otomo's Interview: http://bit.ly/1RVYgz7 - Nausicaa of The Valley - Space Battleship Yamato - Akira - Aldnoah Zero - Astro Boy - Dimension W - Neon Genesis Evangelion - Saikano - Hunter X Hunter (2011) - Mahouka Rettousei - Senki Zesshou Symphogear - Zankyou no Terror - Huge shoutout to Michael Rogge for letting me use his footage: http://bit.ly/1TpaFjP - Auschwitz Liberation Documentary: http://bit.ly/1ZtFyF0 - Nihon Chinbotsu / Japan Sinks - Gojira - The Last War---Note: I am forgetting quite a few, if you're the original video creator, please let me know and I will attribute properly.---Audio: - Colossus Wonders, Phantom from Space, and Hand Balance Redux by Kevin MacLeod from Incompetech - Ray Charles' "I can't stop loving you" - Akira Soundtrack: Requiem and Kaneda
The Phenomenology of the Sit-Stand Desk Pause and Select 2023-05-16 | I took blood money to make this video. Blood money in the form of a desk.Thumbnail by Sandra Williams:twitter.com/SandraW1990---I'm also supposed to add these:AnthroDesk USA www.AnthroDesk.com AnthroDesk Canadawww.AnthroDesk.ca AnthroDesk Sit to Stand Height Adjustable Programmable Standing Desk Workstation with Table Topanthrodesk.ca/products/anthrodesk-sit-to-stand-height-adjustable-programmable-standing-desk-workstation-with-table-topAmazon: amazon.ca/dp/B08ZNTWS59?ref=myi_title_dp----I don't have an accompanying page or anything with this video, it's mainly a small in-between section as I get off my butt and work on a bigger video.I thought I was being real slick with the audio in different places thing, but it turns out if you don't treat those areas well enough they come off very poorly. Sorry about that, it won't happen again.On a goofier note, this is what happens when I do a tech review, so I think this is more of a warning to future sponsors on the whole "tech review" angle.---If you're curious, the books mentioned are:Ideas, by Edmund HusserlQueer Phenomenology, by Sara AhmedThe Parallax View, by Slavoj ZizekUnderstanding Media, by Marshall McLuhan---Voices:@StudyofSwords, @TheCynicClinic, and @whimsydearest.Footage for YouTube videos from:@whimsydearest @TheWeekIReview @SteveSekai @linesinmotion
Project Updates, Diablo 2, uhhh...thats it. Pause and Select 2023-03-26 | Grinding nonstop until I get a Jah.
From China to Japan: Kongming and the Story of Cultural Flow Pause and Select 2022-09-17 | VidIQ SEO title: Ya Boy Kongming: The Controversial Alleged Chinese Superstar, or, Who is Kongming, and why is he so damn popular in Japan?#paripikoumei #koumei #anitubers Thumbnail by Ushio15:androchi.carrd.coDiscord (This isn't mine, I just hang out here): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-Fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectTikTok: tiktok.com/@pauseandselectCaptions are available!All sources and commentary can be found here:pauseandselect.com/2022/ya-boy-kongming-authenticityChapters00:00 Intro00:41 AMQ01:15 Ya Boy Kongming Context03:09 Thesis05:22 Romance of the Three Kingdoms09:45 Fixing My Script Problems in Post14:26 fka Ghost collab19:23 Eiji Yoshikawa24:57 The Genbun Itchi Movement27:07 Why Yoshikawa?31:38 Why Zhuge Liang?36:27 The Meiji Explosion39:19 Kongming and AnimeThis video is a collaboration with both fka Ghost and The Gentlemen of the Han subgroup, please check out their respective works!@aka-ghost :youtube.com/channel/UCo-B41NTZ0OKJOLHAjdTpawThe Gentlemen of the Han:gentlemenofthehan.wordpress.comHuge thanks to Stanton Feng for permission to use their image of the Battle of Red Cliffs, please check out their work at their ArtStation:artstation.com/kd428Thanks to the voice work of all the folks in the video!@KaiAfterKai :youtube.com/c/KaiAfterKai@Stevem :youtube.com/c/Stevem@GilLiesHere :youtube.com/c/GilLiesHere@TheCynicClinic :youtube.com/c/TheCynicClinic
Everyone Performs in My Dress Up Darling Pause and Select 2022-03-27 | Use my code ALTHUSSER10 and link: bit.ly/pauseandselectBKMar22 to get 10% off (save up to $47!) your own authentic Japanese subscription box from Bokksu! Don't miss out on this amazing snack-journey through Japan!Alternatively, "Gojo isn't a wimp, fight me losers."SEO friendly title: Twitter Doesn't know how to talk about Sono Bisque Doll#sono #bisque #otaku Thumbnail by Highland Kall: twitter.com/HighlandKallDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-Fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectTikTok: tiktok.com/@pauseandselectCaptions are available!All sources and commentary can be found here:pauseandselect.com/2022/whos-the-otaku-in-my-dress-up-darlingChapters00:00 Intro00:55 Sponsor03:12 Thesis04:47 Performativity Addendum07:09 Otaku07:55 Problems of Masculinity11:10 My Dress Up Darling13:11 The Hina Dolls18:48 Sajuna19:19 Himeno Amane20:40 Sympathy for Otaku Issues21:37 "Be Yourself"This video was sponsored by Bokksu.Thanks to @GilLiesHere, @Stevem, and Iago for their help with voice acting, please check out their channels!Footage came from @LordKnightfgc's guide on P4AU characters.Photos came from "Otaku Spaces," taken by Androniki Christodoulou.
Japan, the Worlds First Platform Superpower Pause and Select 2022-02-19 | #platforms #bakuman #yournameCaptions are available!Thumbnail by Lieutenant Chili Bunny:ko-fi.com/lieutenantchilibunnyThis is Part Two of a two-part video series with Marc Steinberg, the first one (on Media Mix) can be found here:youtube.com/watch?v=LbXS-8je62MHuge thanks to Marc Steinberg, please check out Anime's Media Mix:https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-platform-economyDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectTikTok: tiktok.com/@pauseandselectAll sources and commentary can be found here:pauseandselect.com/2022/japan-the-platform-superpowerImmense - IMMENSE - thanks toTranslating Japan:youtube.com/c/TranslatingJapanThe Cynic Clinic:youtube.com/c/TheCynicClinicUniquenameosaurus:youtube.com/c/UniquenameosaurusShaybs:youtube.com/channel/UC8y4X8xL_jMWvYn2IM26apQDani:youtube.com/channel/UCbXBnHUfiuZJYfjmocDfhEQJustus R. Stone for the light novel analysis footage, please check them out if you want to see regular LN content:youtube.com/c/JustusRStoneYTSTG - SLK for their video game footage, please take a look if you want to see some older mobile game footage:youtube.com/channel/UC_MMFl45d4aeNwcW2wOCuGwCooro for their gaming footage, some of it which includes a handheld footage, a lot of interesting stuff:youtube.com/channel/UC45o5FS_vapZnkUxXvKtMQAI got the fridge footage from this WayneRadioTV video:youtube.com/watch?v=plrlrGtoiikChapters00:00 Intro00:41 Bakuman Intro05:25 The Platform Economy07:01 Content and History08:15 Toyotism09:30 Contents10:58 Platform Economy14:13 The Japanese Mobile Shift17:50 A Japanese model of the Mobile Internet20:44 Your Name and Infrastructure Aesthetics24:36 Platform Imperialism28:42 Speaking through Platforms30:14 Conclusion
NOVID 2021, Part 2 Pause and Select 2021-12-19 | The playlist of all entries:youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3itZ8UCAizGlxkTWMOEkJ2p6DvNgTtFLIf you want to send your donations through Paypal:paypal.me/pauseandselectPlease mark it as NOVID 2021 so I know.
NOVID 2021, Part 2 Pause and Select 2021-12-19 | The playlist of all entries:youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3itZ8UCAizGlxkTWMOEkJ2p6DvNgTtFLIf you want to send your donations through Paypal:paypal.me/pauseandselectPlease mark it as NOVID 2021 so I know.
NOVID 2021, Part 1 Pause and Select 2021-12-18 | The playlist of all entries:youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3itZ8UCAizGlxkTWMOEkJ2p6DvNgTtFLIf you want to send your donations through Paypal:paypal.me/pauseandselectPlease mark it as NOVID 2021 so I know.
Cogecha: A Master of Clear Line Pause and Select 2021-10-13 | #cogecha #doujinshi #bard713What is Ligne Claire? What's it got to do with Japanese Doujin art? What's it got to do with Cogecha?Thumbnail by Dani from @linesinmotion:https://linktr.ee/linesinmotionEthical Disclosure: I wasn't paid for anything, no money was exchanged. They reached out to me, I reached out to my patrons, everybody seemed okay with the end result.Chapters:00:00 Foreword6:11 VideoThis is a fan video made by members of the Commission of Comiday Chengdu Doujin Exhibition.The organization and commission members do not claim any right over any of the graphics, images, and songs used in this video. All rights reserved to the respective copyright owners.Original video: bilibili.com/video/BV1r44y11759Cogecha's twitter: twitter.com/BARD713Pid: 12845810For more videos, please follow:amuro1985: space.bilibili.com/222593中割production: space.bilibili.com/13167383For more translated videos:Ander Miao: youtube.com/channel/UCoRoFhVEQFodYmLJpDpuOmgPlanner; video editor: amuro1985Video scriptwriter: amuro1985; 中割productionVoice over: 扇子ougiSpecial thanks: 渣太Translator: snoper卓尔"Sources (Provide by the videomaker, so I can't address any questions or concerns on that front):Explanation concerning the usage of Cogecha's illustration by Comiday Commission of Chengdu:weibo.com/1942243665/KpDLjsCKo?type=repost#_rnd1634006177381《リーニュクレールとは何か》：http://sajiya.blog89.fc2.com/blog-entry-589.html?spWikipedia:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_clairefr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claireDocumentary Film of Hergé:bilibili.com/video/BV1JJ411M7VAYoutube Channel of Kyohei Ishiguro:youtube.com/channel/UCIhfdxWGaK9SDyzS_dLJoggイラストレーター 焦茶 - Drawing with Wacom (DwW)：youtube.com/watch?v=H8-WS81Lcucアニメ『ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン』制作風景 第1弾「総作画監督」:youtube.com/watch?v=gAsLPqVvLsQ
Kadokawa, Haruhi, and How They Shaped the World of the Media Mix Pause and Select 2021-06-05 | #anime #haruhi #mpdpsycho #mangaThe Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya forced Kadokawa to rethink a specific sales strategy...but how?Thumbnail by Sophia Amelia:twitter.com/Sophia_Amelia0Captions are available!Second part is here:youtube.com/watch?v=nBp1HW0yuFIDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectTikTok: tiktok.com/@pauseandselectHuge thanks to Marc Steinberg, please check out Anime's Media Mix:https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/animeas-media-mixAll sources and commentary can be found here:pauseandselect.com/2021/understanding-animes-media-mix-how-franchises-become-narrativesChapters00:00 Intro03:27 Steinberg's Intro04:13 What is a Media Mix?06:49 Where did it come from?08:55 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya12:40 MPD Psycho15:55 Intermission19:12 Back to MPD Psycho21:08 Record of Lodoss War22:41 Conclusion
Attack on Titan, turns out, is really faithful to the Four-Act Structure Pause and Select 2021-04-04 | #attackontitan #shingekinokyojin #kishotenketsu #storywritingTechnically because I use comedy you cannot criticize me.Thumbnail by @RedGoner:youtube.com/c/RedGonerThis is a two-parter with TheCynicClinic, please watch his video for more context!youtube.com/watch?v=O0RYFLXUKU0HUGE thanks to Manga Senpai for their help and permission, please support them!youtube.com/channel/UCIf8FtUSagYnvkRD-SFrVBgDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectTikTok: tiktok.com/@pauseandselect 00:00 Prologue01:05 Introduction04:06 Development09:57 Twist13:08 Conclusion14:59 Credits and ContextSheeP's Discord (This is not my discord, I just hang out in it):discord.gg/f9pFSZEVideo: - Attack on Titan* - Madoka Magica - Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun - AnimegatarisText: "The Significance of Plot without Conflict." Still Eating Oranges. stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com/post/25153960313/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflictBarrett, Rudy. "The Mindset of Japanese Arguments." Tofugu. tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-argument-structureBarrett, Rudy. "The Skeletal Structure of Japanese Horror Fiction." Tofugu. tofugu.com/japan/japanese-horror-structureInterview with Hajime Isayama, Creator of Attack on Titan: "Better to Have Memorable Art, Even Memorably Bad Art, and Stand Out." mangabrog.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/interview-with-hajime-isayama-creator-of-attack-on-titan-better-to-have-memorable-art-even-memorably-bad-art-and-stand-outIsayama, Hajime. 進撃の巨人の話. http://blog.livedoor.jp/isayamahazime/archives/727734.html.Manga Senpai/Tokyo Name Tank. "How to manga by Japanese manga-ka." youtube.com/watch?v=Y3DC30oW8gE&t=191sNutt, Christian. "The Structure of Fun: Learning from Super Mario 3D Land's Director." gamasutra.com/view/feature/168460/the_structure_of_fun_learning_.phpSee: Eggmath's Comment here. bladelickingthieves.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/blade-licking-thieves-podcast-32-whisper-of-the-heartSMAC! The Silent Manga Audition Community. "The FOUR Part construction 'Ki-Sho-Ten-Ketsu' - Japanese Manga #049" youtube.com/watch?v=pPxjTVpY55wParallax Architecture. youtube.com/watch?v=7bprgBMCkSwZizek, Slavoj. The Parallax View.Music by Skrullz - End the Attack - platform eat monster - lamp garden - boring rhodes beat - the efforting
Tonikaku Kawaii: A Treatise on Pure Love Pause and Select 2021-01-22 | #tonikawa #tonikaku #kawaii Tonikaku Kawaii starts after the marriage...but why?Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectTikTok: tiktok.com/@pauseandselectChapters:0:00 Intro0:33 Background3:38 Tonikawa8:50 CreditsStray Notes: - I forgot to white balance it so it just looks like I'm bloodshot. If I was drunk that'd be true. - This kinda defeats the purpose of calling this section "Stray Notes" - I didn't know whether to name it Tonikawa, Tonikaku Kawaii, Tonikaku Cawaii, or Fly Me to the Moon, so here we areText:- "Japan Gripped by Obsession with Pure Love," japantimes.co.jp/life/2004/12/30/language/japan-gripped-by-obsession-with-pure-love- Freedman, Alisa. "Train Man and the Gender Politics of Japanese 'Otaku' Culture: The Rise of New Media, Nerd Heroes and Consumer Communities," Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan, 2015.Media (Asterisks for Spoilers): - Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - Hayate the Combat Butler* - Kimi no Iru Machi* - Suzuka* - Kimi ni Todoke* - Hatsukoi - Shinshi Doumei Cross - Tonikaku Kawaii - Socrates in Love*Audio by Skrullz: - polaris_area_four - charge_think - mappa_goat - the_big_baller_blues
NOVID: Charity Event Pause and Select 2020-12-19 | Get 10% off (save up to $47!) your own authentic Japanese snack box from Bokksu using my link: http://bit.ly/3nqDeRB and code ALTHUSSER10This video was sponsored by Bokksu.---My brain has melted.---Did I miss your video? Think again!youtu.be/-UEXfPn-9ZsPlaylist of all the videos:youtube.com/playlist?list=PL13Kk54qaqMriPpE6sTWcZRdB9hWkssI1Twitter:twitter.com/pauseandselectDiscord:discord.gg/f9pFSZEPatreon:patreon.com/pauseandselect
Japan Sinks 2020: Mapping the Invisible Disaster Pause and Select 2020-10-12 | #japansinks #311 #netflixFun fact: I told myself, "Yeah, after the two 25 minute videos, I'll make a short one that's just five minutes." So much for my promises.Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectTikTok: tiktok.com/@pauseandselectPlease check out these folks!Rebecca's Zine:https://www.realmatter.red/web/Study of Swords' Kimetsu no Yaiba Video:youtube.com/watch?v=QJiXtlNJACQSamham's Azuma video:youtube.com/watch?v=4zJ70lLITscAlec's "Eight Great Live-Action Anime You (Probably) Haven't Seen":youtube.com/watch?v=62AqKlNcCZkThe VTubers I mentioned:Farmer Hinayoutube.com/channel/UC8-XixGs6a_0Q494Ebt1VygSumishiro Mashiroyoutube.com/channel/UC5snfPNcLa8srbCe4dn8WewPikameeyoutube.com/channel/UCajhBT4nMrg3DLS-bLL2RCgHUGE Thanks to Kei (@Otaku Deity), Melancholy (I don't remember your twitter) and Sarah (instagram.com/saalow) for double checking my jank translations.Chapters:00:00 Intro03:00 The Future of Disaster10:03 The Small, but Global Image17:49 Whose 3.11?31:10 To Remain Behind40:48 Kizu(Na)46:00 Patreon Questions and DiscussionStray Notes: - My back hurts - I found it a bit challenging to translate Yuasa's audio, mainly because my hearing is still incredibly jank, I know that he's talking about the everyman, but I felt that in the context of that discussion and who's pointed at (Yuasa), it made more sense to write it that way, at least I thought so.Text:- It says my description is too long, so please check out my comment in the video comments for the sources. Sorry about that!Media (Asterisks for Spoilers): - The Complete Tokyo 1964 Olympics Film - ANNnewsCH, my saviour: youtube.com/watch?v=mk68bZ701s0 - Japan Sinks (1973, 2006, 2020) - 51 Ways to Protect Her* - Dragon Head - Akira* - BelieversAudio by Skrullz: - 3zdorn - at the edge of a hairy foot - enen no bobo wearing a tie - mighty number 21 - no tie - the trail of beers - train to the next world - unfortunate shogunate - uptemp joe
Isekai: Stepping into Another World Pause and Select 2020-07-28 | #isekai #narou #syosetuA brief introduction to some major general outlines on Isekai, otherworld stories. What are they? Where do they come from? Why did they proliferate? Warning: it heavily leans syosetu, so there is a bit of a vantage point, and I don't really catch everything. It's meant to be a basic introduction.Check out MudanTV's video: youtube.com/watch?v=hfhEK_dHrFMHuge thanks to Damien for following the content: twitter.com/hilaire_damienI Favour the Villainness is available in English via Seven Seas:sevenseasentertainment.com/series/im-in-love-with-the-villainess-light-novelI want add on a huge thanks to Inori, who's Pixiv you can find here:https://t.co/iYGK13ZnaiIf you like the content, please consider supporting the channel on Patreon!Patreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectChapters:00:00 Context01:20 Video start01:59 Understanding Isekai05:18 There is no lineage09:01 How do I become a novelist?13:53 This Light Novel is outstanding!17:49 The Jump25:01 Futures27:19 Ending Thoughts + Patron Credits Media: - Arifureta - Aura Battler Dunbine - Battle Royale (2000) - Btoom! - Choyuyu - Death March to a Parallel Rhapsody - Death Note - Dungeon Seeker - Gate - Hamefura - Ascendance of a Bookworm - Isekai Cheat Magician - Isekai Izakaya Nobu - Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo - Isekai Shokudou - Isekai Smartphone - Kenja no Mago - Knight's & Magic - Konosuba - Log Horizon - Mirai Nikki - Nihonkoku Shoukan - Noukin - Outbreak Company - Overlord - Re:Zero - Shinchou Yuusha - Sword Art Online - Tate no Yuusha - Tensei Shitara Slime - Tondemo Skill - Youjo SenkiText:* You DO NOT need to be a patron to read these, they're publicly available. - "Talking to ヘロー天気," patreon.com/posts/talking-to-qi-31449986 - "Talking to a Private Isekai Author," patreon.com/posts/talking-to-34714944 - "Another (very brief) discussion with Hero Tenki," patreon.com/posts/another-very-34745036 - "Talking to Inori," patreon.com/posts/talking-to-inori-35415425 - "なぜ「異世界転生」は若者にウケ続けるのか？," gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/64174 - Kaichiro Morikawa, "Learning from Akihabara: The birth of a personapolis," core.ac.uk/download/pdf/53141185.pdf - KADOKAWA, "Kadokawa's Publishing and Video Property: Stronger performances in games contribute to operating income of 2.7 billion yen, financial results for the year ending in March 31, 2019," - Manyo, "Why are there more reincarnation isekai anime? The web novel boom since Sword Art Online," realsound.jp/movie/2017/02/post-4134.html - 4Gamer, "Stories without work - why are they so popular now?" 4gamer.net/games/236/G023617/20140509083 - Kyodo News, "Seven killed and 10 injured in Akihabara stabbing spree," Japan Times, japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/06/09/national/7-killed-10-injured-in-akihabara-stabbing-spree - Azuma Hiroki, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals, trans. Jonathan Abel and Shion Kono - Miyadai Shinji, Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992, Mechademia 6, 2011Contest Examples, some have updated to results: - 小説家になろう×マンガＵＰ！ 第1回 コミカライズ原作賞 審査結果発表 | SQUARE ENIX, magazine.jp.square-enix.com/mangaup/novel_prize - 第６回オーバーラップWEB小説大賞, over-lap.co.jp/narou/narou-award6 - 第２回 アース・スターノベル小説大賞 | アース・スターノベル, es-novel.jp/esn-award02
Understanding Japanese Apocalypticism Pause and Select 2020-07-28 | #apocalypticism #anime #manga #apocalypse #postwarA brief, beginner-friendly introduction to some big (but obviously not exhaustive) apocalyptic threads in Japan. There's a huge amount just left out in visual novels, literature, light novels, web novels, games, etc., that I just missed mainly due to limitations on time, hence the basic introduction aspect of it all.If you like the content, please consider supporting the channel on Patreon!Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectSince this is a condensed version of the prior videos, there's not much new to cite that hasn't already been cited. If you're curious, you can find a lot of previous sources in the video description of previous videos:Why Japan Sinks Matters: youtube.com/watch?v=sxUcbR12uHcUnderstanding Disaster, Part 4: youtu.be/npLVlJTH_mkUnderstanding Disaster, Part 3: youtu.be/dCKZQphDyLYUnderstanding Disaster, Part 2:youtu.be/L5XeDQ6sb2gUnderstanding Disaster, Part 1: youtu.be/kvvUiXc6m7UThe only major addition would be Uno Tsunehiro's Zero-nendai no sozoryoku, "Imagination of the 2000's." and Richard Lloyd Perry's Ghosts of the Tsunami. Chapters:00:00 Context01:06 Video Start02:50 What is Apocalypticism?04:43 Japanese Apocalypticism08:28 The Death of the Dream11:22 The Age of Fiction14:55 World Types23:35 3.1129:09 Whose Japan?31:56 Ending Thoughts + Patreon CreditsMedia: - Death Note - Akira - Japan Sinks (1973) - Japan Sinks (2020) - Neon Genesis Evangelion - Your Name - Gojira - Shin Gojira - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Atomic Bomb Aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - The Beast from the 20,000 Fathoms - "Why We Can't Go Back to How Things Were Before" - "The Asama Sanso Incident, Parts 1-3" - Battle Royale (2000)Youtube Media: - Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis - A day in Tokyo, Japan, in 1963 東京 - Exclusive interview with Japanese PM - Jap Students Are A Riot (1964) - Japan 1960 political demonstrations 政治デモ - Kobe Earthquake - 1995 Today In History 17 Jan 19 - Kobe Earthquake 07.01.1995 - The aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti - The Complete Tokyo 1964 Olympics Film Olympic History - Zero Hour - Terror In Tokyo - S01E04 - Documentary Movie- National Geographic 2015 - Japanese Prime Minister at memorial service for victims of WTC attack - 昭和48年 (1973年)「第一次オイルショックの時のトイレットペーパー売り切れ騒動」 - Atomic Bomb Aftermath Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Castle Bravo The Big One - Japan's Economic Bubble and the Lost Decade, with William Tsutsui - The Last War - The Lucky Dragon Incident - The Red Army PFLP Declaration of World War by Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu 1971 70'' - Why We Can't Go Back to How Things Were Before COVID-19 - Demonstrations Tokyo 1960 昭和の日本 - WW2 Japanese footageMusic by Skrullz: - jo from pause and select the animation
The Long Lineage of Japan Sinks Pause and Select 2020-07-07 | #JapanSinksJapan Sinks is pretty important, so hopefully I go a bit into why that's the case. Yes, I know I didn't cover everything. Watch until the end to see why!Big ups to @TheCynicClinic:youtube.com/user/TheCynicClinic---Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectTikTok: tiktok.com/@pauseandselectStray Notes: - I found it difficult to find the Japan Sinks manga. - Gillieshere mentioned a really interesting thing, which is that in the Japan Sinks trailer there's a reference to a false alarm trip in 2016.Chapters:00:00 Start01:40 Shinjinrui05:00 Japan Sinks (1973)14:17 Zero-Nendai16:00 Japan Sinks (2006)22:18 Japan Sinks: 202024:05 Retrospect20:00 Epilogue and RantText: - Azuma et al. "The Era of Disasters and the Words of Critical Thought." Genron 2011, bit.ly/2AE8hGk. - Suter, Rebecca. "Culture and Disaster in Japan." When the Tsunami Came to Shore, edited by Roy Starrs. - Tanaka, Motoko. Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction. 2014, Palgrave Macmillan. - Kazuko, Ide. "Japan Sinking? Sequel to 1970s Novel finds Japan Sunk and the Japanese Scattered." The Asia-Pacific Journal 4 (9), 2006. - Halloran, Richard. "Japan braces for a Full-Scale Oil Crisis." The New york Times, December 8, 1973, nytimes.com/1973/12/08/archives/japan-braces-for-a-fullscale-oil-crisis-japan-whose-busy-economy.html - Napier, Susan. "Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira." Journal of Japanese Studies 19 (2): 1993, 327-351. - Langer, Jessica. "Three versions of Komatsu Sakyo's Nihon Chinbotsu (Japan Sinks)." Science Fiction film and Television 2 (1): 2009, 45-57. - Uno, Tsunehiro. Zero-nendai no sozoryoku. 2008. - Homenick, Brett. "Sakyo Komatsu on Science Fiction!" Vantage Point Interviews, vantagepointinterviews.com/2017/04/27/sakyo-komatsu-on-science-fiction-japans-arthur-c-clarke-discusses-his-filmmaking-foray/.Media:Spoilers have an asterisk (*) - The Red Army PFLP Declaration of World War by Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu 1971, 70'' - The Asama-Sansō incident - Part 1-3 - Sinking of Japan (2006)* - Japan Sinks (1973)* - Shin Godzilla (2016) - Kamen Rider Ryuuki - Nikkei 225 Loses 73% Since Reaching Peak 20 Years Ago Video (Bloomberg News) - OPEC OIL EMBARGO - 1973 - Kobe Earthquake 07.01.1995 - JAPAN SUBWAY GAS ATTACK DEATH TOLL RISES TO TEN - Gojira (1954) - Battle Royale (2000) - 昭和48年 (1973年)「第一次オイルショックの時のトイレットペーパー売り切れ騒動」 - 『日本沈没』 01+飛び散る海 - Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou - Japan Sinks Netflix Trailer - Fate Stay Night, Unlimited Blade Works - Akira - Neon Genesis Evangelion + End of Evangelion - Tenki no Ko - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Mirai Nikki- Satougashi no Dangan wa UchinukenaiAudio by Skrullz: - the longer we sink the further the hole - stomp floor garden too - my love life titanic no leo - messing with the bed life - loving strangely in okinawa - happy sad in this world we know nothing - halo ends here - EVANBELLION - elongated psychic
A Thousand Isekai, Part 3.5: Isekai Pause and Select 2020-03-09 | Okay, NOW I'm going back to Isekai, Part 4.---Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectStray Notes: - Let me know if you think this new format is obnoxious - For anyone interested, I have two (publicly available) conversations with two different isekai authors on my Patreon: - patreon.com/posts/talking-to-34714944 - patreon.com/posts/talking-to-qi-31449986 - Some of these names don't have the clearest 1-to-1 translations, so I just approximated them. Feel free to let me know if you think a better name suits them, I was really unsure about giving clear definitions, but I thought it might be easy to keep it simpleMy crappy instagram account: http://instagram.com/fukushima_waterChapters:02:12 orijinaru senki (fictional warfare)02:47 narou (amateur)03:34 Genjitsu ni atta fushigi na hanashi (strange stories around us)04:02 musou (unstoppable!)04:38 zamaa (serves them right!)05:07 danjon (roguelike)05:32 VRMMO-kei.06:10 dennou sekai (trapped in cyberspace)06:58 Nariagari (upstarts)07:27 kenkokuki (nation-building)08:03 gotsugoushugi (it's an opportunity!)08:58 fantaji (fantasy) (Courtesy of Six Squirrels)Isekai: - A-Kun no Sensou - Dungeon Seeker - Isekai Kenkokuki - Murabito Desu ga Nani ka - Overlord - Realist Maou Niyoru Seiiki Naki Isekai Kaikaku - Saikyou no mamono ni naru michi o tadoru ore, i sekaijuu de zama ~awo shikkou suru - Tenohira Kaitaku Mura de Isekai Kenkokuki - The New Gate - While Killing Slimes for 300 Years - Youjo SenkiNon-Isekai: - Berserk - Berserk of Gluttony - Bofuri - Botsuraku kizoku no ayuma se kata ~ De~Yuran koushaku no baai ~ - Danmachi - Dot Hack Sign - Dungeon Seeker - Dynasty Warriors - E-Rank Healer - Fate Grand Order ~Epic of Remnant~ - Goblin Slayer - Grancrest Senki - I Want To Eat Your Pancreas - Kaifuku Jutsushi - Kouritsu Kuriya Madoushi - Maou Gakuinb no Futekigousha - Mahouka no Rettousei - Mom, Please Don't Come Adventuring With Me! - Mushoku no Eiyuu - Musou-kei onna kishi, nanode kukkoro wa nai - Nido Tensei Shita Shounen wa S Rank Boukensha - Nonbiri VRMMOOki - Saikyou Mahoushi no Inton Keikaku - Saikyou Yuuusha - Sayonara Ryuusei, Konnichiwa Jinsei - Shikkaku Mon no Saikyou - Shina Dark - Shito Senki - Strongest Revenge Brave - Sword Art Online - The Labyrinth Raids of the Ultimate Tank - The Reincarnation of the Magician with Inferior Eyes - Tooaru Ossan no VRMMO Battle - Tsuyokute New Saga - UzumakiIf I slot them in the wrong spot, please let me know on Discord, I'm more available there.Audio by Skrullz: - Reading_the_Binder - Mom_Is_it - The_Day_When_Urine_Turned_into_Gold - Witty_the_Biddy - Bit_Trip_Fucker - Typer_Beat_with_the_Typer_feet - VRMMO_no_Jitsu - They_Changed_What_the_MP3_Looks_Like_on_Windows_10 - 99_point_9_percent_of_your_germs - dick_flater - das_auto - frankcrest_denki_groove
Specters of Anitube Pause and Select 2020-01-28 | Definition of Hauntology from Wiktionary:hauntologyn. In Derridan philosophy, the paradoxical state of the spectre, which is neither being nor nonbeing.alt n. a random word used by a hack YouTuber---The three channels I mentioned:TheCynicClinic: youtube.com/user/TheCynicClinicKYDB: youtube.com/channel/UCFaIXgd8idAF99ke2hqjiVgGilLiesHere: youtube.com/channel/UCmbRnJ1aKK3U9r_6sufdWJQ---Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectStray Notes: - I had to double-check some of the info, cause some of these ideas are pretty old, but I think they should still be there...in generalI have an Instagram now and it's the most nothing account:instagram.com/fukushima_waterText: - Brau, Lori. Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo, 2008. - Condry, Ian. The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story, 2013. - Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1975. - Matthew Shores. "A Critical Study of Kamigata Rakugo and its Traditions." 2014. - そのスピードで。三部けい『僕だけがいない街』 http://nearfuture8.blog45.fc2.com/blog-entry-1353.html.Video: - Overlord - ERASED - Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu - The Girl Who Leapt Through TimeAudio by Skrullz: - The Last time to save your life
How Global is Anime? Pause and Select 2019-11-10 | Huge thanks to Sandra Annett for her time!DISCLAIMER: I received a copy of this book for free. I was not paid in any way to review this book. Youtube doesn't have a disclaimer section for this kind of stuff, and I forgot to mention it in the video, so hopefully, this suffices. Sorry about that.Amazon Link:amazon.com/Anime-Fan-Communities-Transcultural-Frictions-ebook/dp/B00TR5JPW8---Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectStray Notes: - The book has a lot more interesting stuff, particularly from the perspective of friction - It approaches the topic much more broadly, not just focused on Japan, but with an element focused on South Korea as well---Video:- 5 Centimeters Per Second- A Place Further Than the Universe- Akira- Astarotte no Omocha- Astro Boy- Attack on Titan- Betty Boop- Char's Counterattack- Cowboy Bebop- Dance in the Vampire Bund- Di Gi Charat- Evangelion Rebuild- Fune Wo Amu- Garden of Words- Gate- Laputa ~ Castle in the Sky- Girls Und Panzer Film- Gunbuster- Hai Furi- Haruhi no Yuutsu- Hibike! Euphonium- Holy Mountain - Iron Giant- Tale of Princess Kaguya- Kobayashi's Maid Dragon- Madoka Magica- Mitsudomoe- Feather Stare at the Dark- Otaku no Video- Outbreak Company- Paprika- Pokemon: The First Movie- Sailor Moon- Samurai Champloo- Steel Angel Kurumi- Strike Witches- The Ten Commandments- There She Is- Space Battleship Yamato- Youjo Senki---Audio: - Rhea, Yezhekel Raz - Icicles, Yezhekel Raz---Audio By WW2Dragon: - ol beanful - jo from pause and select the animation - the long road ahead
A Thousand Isekai, Part 3: Devouration, Revenge, Abject Pause and Select 2019-05-15 | Halfway there! Part 3 of 6!As always, this video comes with captions! You can find English and French captions!You can find the second part here:youtube.com/watch?v=NCJesuBHR-gDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectFollow Damien on Twitter: twitter.com/hilaire_damienStray Notes:In lieu of a stray notes, here is the discussion I had with KK (patreon.com/posts/brief-exchange-24641796), with the help of Kei from Otaku Deity double-checking my jank translation. You can find Kei’s channel here: youtube.com/channel/UCLexudAymnkvwQ7HtRChY0A. He’s really helpful in composing questions that weren’t off-putting; I have a really jank composition.Text:- 【インタビュー：読者プレゼントあり】本格リアルタイムRPG『リ・モンスター（Re:Monster）』。小説原作「金斬児狐」先生と開発ディレクターにインタビュー！ game.boom-app.com/entry/remonster-interview20160209. Boom Game Apps.- Aneko’s got a lot on Syosetu. These were the specific ones we focused on. Note: she kinda rambles about a lot of different things (mainly whatever game it is she’s playing):o mypage.syosetu.com/mypageblog/view/userid/172188/blogkey/672361o mypage.syosetu.com/mypageblog/view/userid/172188/blogkey/589407o mypage.syosetu.com/mypageblog/view/userid/172188/blogkey/2201485o mypage.syosetu.com/mypageblog/view/userid/172188/blogkey/2201485o To clarify: I know this was kinda a snafu a while back, but I *do not* know of Aneko’s gender, but realistically, it doesn’t matter. I choose ‘her’ cause it just seems to me to be the more reasonable choice, but ultimately I am not making any specific claims about Aneko’s gender. - Imagination After the Earthquake: Japan’s Otaku Culture in the 2010s. Ueno Tsunehiro. Translated by Jeffrey Guarneri. Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1, No. 1 (2015).- Galloway, Alexander. Gaming: Essays in Algorithmic Culture.- Erban, Brianna. "Keitai Shousetsu: A Study of Japan's Mobile Phone Fiction." sites.ualberta.ca/~berban/cell/cellwho.htmlMedia:These ones kinda all have spoilers:- Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou- Berserk of Gluttony- Death Note- Dungeon Seeker- Isekai Goumon Hime- Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi- Kumo Desu Ga, Nani Ka- Kuro no Maou- Monster no Goshujin-Sama- My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Brave’s- Nidome no Yuusha- Overlord- Re:Monster- Rising of the Shield Hero- Tensei Shitara Slime na Datta Ken- The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time- The Strongest Brave who Craves for Revenge- The World’s Best Assassin, Reincarnated in a Different World- Ubau Mono Ubawareru MonoAudio by Skrullz:- Fart log- Farter log- Wz god hands 3000- Poke knife wife- Given life or consumed clock- You once knew it but now its dead- Sao type beater- Overlorder
A Thousand Isekai, Part 2: Material, Imperial, Soft Power Pause and Select 2019-01-15 | PLEASE READ:This video comes with captions for Damien. If you do not have captions on, you'll find it under 'English'.---Second in a multi-video series! This is the second video of a multi-part series. You can find the first part here: youtube.com/watch?v=WMtHFGK0hm4For this three (possibly four) part discussion on isekai, I'm joined by Damien at @hilaire_damien for a fun video on isekai. We've both been reading hundreds of the bastards, so might as well talk about it in a quasi-structural context.Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectFollow Damien on Twitter:twitter.com/hilaire_damienStray Notes: - I am irrationally attracted to the huntress from Isekai Ryouridou - I am NOT making a causal mechanistic claim between the form of tenii and the imperial sentiment, this is just something interesting. - I should make a distinction between politics as a system of constitutive subjectivation and politics as a system of governance. The video focuses, somewhat hazily, on both. Both are tackled in slightly different, awkward ways. - I think it's important to keep in mind that not all tenii operate like this, and not all isekai need to be tenii to have such sentiments. Tensei Shitara Slime, for example, is tensei and it still has these specifics anxieties - Wasn't able to talk about Takarakuji de 40-oku as much as I myself was hoping, but it's an interesting one - I want to note that many food isekai do not seem to be knowingly or outwardly expressing a particular imperial anxiety, but the way in which they operate make it really difficult to shake this imperial sentiment. That does not mean that they necessarily endorse it, but the fixation on modernity does tend to lead to these scenarios where the 'knowing' Hero wields an innately superior apparatus - It's important to note that GATE, arguably, draws back even further with films like Momotaro's Divine Warriors. Whereas Momotaro uses what Sandra Annett refers to as 'Cute Ethnic Others' (in the form of animals), the use of cute girls in GATE creates a similar affective feedback loop. That said, this does not mean that the author intended it for it to be this way, the novel was largely a product of its Iraq War conception. - There's a bit of a debate as to exactly HOW influential the Americans were in the construction of the Japanese Constitution, but I feel like it's a reasonable amount. Check my two sources for two differing positions and feel free to come to your own conclusion. - More notes in the comments!Text:- Cwiertka, Katarzyna J. "Modern Japanese Cuisine." Reaktion Books, 2006. - Hirasawa, Akihiko. "Formation of Japan's food security policy: relations with food situation and evolution of agricultural policies." Papers & Reports, Norinchukin Research Institute Co., nochuri.co.jp/english/pdf/rpt_20180731-1.pdf - Hovhannisyan, Astghik. "Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia." Edited by Kayoko Hashimoto. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. - Jiji. "Nation's food self-sufficiency rate hits 23-year low as rice consumption decline continues." Japan Times, japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/10/business/japans-food-self-sufficiency-rate-hits-23-year-low-rice-consumption-decline-continues - Kades, Charles L. "The American Role in Revising Japan's Imperial Constitution." Political Science Quarterly 104, No. 2 (1989), pp. 215-247. - Moore, Ray A. "Comment: Reflections on the Occupation of Japan." The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 38, No. 4 (1979), pp. 721-734. - O'Donoghue, J.J. "Is farming in Japan on its last legs?" Japan Times, japantimes.co.jp/life/2018/06/23/food/farming-japan-last-legsMedia (all asterisks suggest spoilers): - Death March * - Gacha wo Mawashite - Garden of Words - Gate - Gun-ota - Isekai Houtei* - Isekai Izakaya Nobu - Isekai Kenkokuki - Isekai Omotenashi Gohan* - Isekai Ryouridou* - Isekai Shihai no Skill Taker* - Isekai Shokudou - Isekai Yakkyoku* - Jui-san no Oshigoto - Manuke FPS - Moon-Led Journey Across the Wastes - Nihonkoku Shoukan* - Outbreak Company* - Overlord - Ponyo - Sushi Police - Sweetness and Lightning - Takarakuji de 40-oku* - Tensei Slime - Tondemo Skill - Tonkatsu DJ Agetaro - Tsukuyomi Moon Phase - Zipang*Audio: - Departure, by Ian Post - Discovery by Jimm Svensson - Into the Storm by Ian Post - K.I.T.T. Vs K.A.R.R. by Ian Post - Night Riders by Ian Post - The Summoning by Kyle PrestonAudio by Skrullz: - last mu - last time to save your life - Limp Bizkits revenge - NO CROSS DECULTURE - PUNISHED_LOUNDRAW_flexmode - wz_god_hands_3000
A Thousand Isekai, Part 1: Communications, Expression, Terms Pause and Select 2018-10-24 | PLEASE READ:This video comes with captions for Damien. If you do not have captions on, you'll find it under 'English'.---First in a multi-video series!For this three (possibly four) part discussion on isekai, I'm joined by Damien at @hilaire_damien for a fun video on isekai. We've both been reading hundreds of the bastards, so might as well talk about it in a quasi-structural context.Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectHuge Thanks to Kei for double checking my translation of Patora's tweet:youtube.com/channel/UCLexudAymnkvwQ7HtRChY0AStray Notes: - I know the video is a little unfocused, but that's mainly because Damien and I want to get some 'ground rules' down first, so terms, general ideas, etc. are tackled in this video. And then, hopefully, once we cycle through some ideas in later videos, we don't have to keep explaining things - One type we missed is 'tenii', or transfer. That comes up quite a bit, though not as often as the others. One such example is, "Takarakuji de 40-oku Atattandakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru". We'll talk about it a bit later, especially in the next video, because tenii comes up A LOT in food and resource isekai. - When we talk about stories about people that are fighting, we're specifically referring to "Nekketsu" type stories, or "hot blooded" stories. Damien made a really good point which is that in comparison, a lot of isekai (especially narou-kei) are seen more like anti-nekketsu stories. My pet reasoning is that it's probably because those stories don't pan out for the people who like to write or read isekai - If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to Tweet at me (@yaochongyang), but know that this is meant to be a multi-part video series, so it might come up later - If you haven't seen Youjo Senki, I highly recommend it! I spoke to a friend of mine on discord a few nights back and he revealed a lot of really interesting nuance in Youjo Senki that I would've never caught, and it was really eye-opening! - I want to mention that not all isekai are narou-kei, and not all narou-kei are isekai. They just have a lot of overlap!The Patora Tweet mentioned:twitter.com/winterpatora/status/861506859919851525Media (all asterisks suggest spoilers): - Btoom! - Death March kara Hajimaru isekai - Gate Jieitai Kanochi Nite, Kaku Tatakaeri - Gun-Ota - Isekai de Skill wo Kaitai shitara Cheat na Yome ga Zoushoku Shimashita: Gainen Kousa no Structure - Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu * - Isekai wa Smartphone To Tomo Ni * - Knight's & Magic - Konosuba - Mirai Nikki - Nihonkoku Shoukan - No Game No Life - Overlord * - The Master of Ragnarok & Blessing of Einherjar - Saikyou no Shuzoku ga Ningen Datta Ken - Shingeki no Kyojin - Sword Art Online * - Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken - The Last Naruto Movie - The New Gate - Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi - Youjo SenkiAudio: - Amnesia, by Katrina Stone - Conversations by Rex Banner - Curiosity by Kevin Graham - Departure by Ian PostAudio by Skrullz: - I hear the cries of the fallen - I HEAR the screams - maleficent wife slaps fish - pay up bro
Princess Mononoke: Style and Substance Pause and Select 2018-08-17 | Huge thanks to Rayna Denison for her time!Please check out Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess: amzn.to/2vRRZDY---Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - Not much of a text section, since this book is, instead of a single clear author, guided by an editor with multiple authors. Therefore, my apologies if the format is a bit strange, but hopefully y'all find it interesting! - It's a little tricky to find a lot of high quality footage from around that time, so my apologies for using the same documentary over and over again - Closest to the Haniwa I could find were the Kodama, so my apologies if some of the examples are a little off. The same is for some of the cuts - I tried to (a) keep them as thematically relevant as possible and (b) make sure they weren't repeated, so my apologies for any concerns that could arise---Video:What I think are spoilers are marked with an asterisk - 5 Centimeters Per Second - Akira - Castle in the Sky - Cowboy Bebop - Evangelion - Ghost in the Shell - Hakujaden - Howl's Moving Castle - Kiki's Delivery Service - Madoka Magica - My Neighbor Totoro - Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - 'Princess Mononoke' - Critics' Picks, The New York Times: youtube.com/watch?v=BoZpCmcnM_s - 'Princess Mononoke' Premiere 10-20-99: youtube.com/watch?v=_tQDLjCzzWk - Princess Mononoke Review by Roger Ebert and Harry Knowles: youtube.com/watch?v=z5b4HP547E0 - Princess Mononoke* - Rurouni Kenshin - Sailor Moon - Spirited Away - Steamboy - The Making of Princess Mononoke - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - The Snow Queen - The Wind Rises - Train Man - トップランナー アニメ監督 宮崎駿 （1997年）: youtube.com/watch?v=afBZFRPFc-U - もののけ姫 in USA 宮崎駿インタビュー （1999年）: youtube.com/watch?v=Db9qO1ONHTM---Audio: - "Puddles" by Stanley Gurvich - "The Legend of Ashitaka" by Joe Hisaishi---Audio By Skrullz: - Birds song clean - Canceled anime hurt life - Limp Dick Swim - Pay Up Bro - The Burning Tree Cries Once More - The final Gambit - v31 ldf
Please Twins is about Please Teacher. Heres how. Pause and Select 2018-05-24 | #please #teacher #analysis #please #twinsAnd interesting pair of shows from an interesting time!Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectHuge thanks to Rogersmith2004 for helping me with some of the Newtype scans! Please check him out!Rogersmith2004: youtube.com/rogersmith2004Two of the pictures taken from shiren_kom2's Twitter page. Unfortunately, because of the schedule, I wasn't able to properly ask them for permission, so please send him some love!twitter.com/shiren_kom2Stray Notes: - Correction on 15:00 - *commodities, not communities - I messed up on pronounciation on some things - my apologies! - This is not supposed to be a deep dive into heteroglossia (hell, I don't even scratch the surface), but rather to get heteroglossia kicking to get people thinking about it. I think some might find my use of heteroglossia in the context of space to be monoglossic, specifically in mind that I'm focusing *just* on space, but the reason why emphasize *just* space is to show the various vantage points that set up the network of the work. This ISN'T the only way to read both works, because these aren't the ONLY ways to get into them! - I wanted to be a brief exploration into seichi junrei, there's a lot more stuff than just this, and there's a lot of different threads that are really worth checking out! - The locations I showed in the video aren't even HALF of the locations! I just wanted to stress that there are, and if you google pretty much any trips, you can find a lot of locations in Oomachi, Kizaki-ko, and Matsumoto!Text: - "Akasaka Hikawa Shrine." Sekai Ichi Japan Travel Blog. http://sekaiichitravel.blogspot.ca/2017/03/akasaka-hikawa-shrine.html. - "聖地・木崎湖に井出監督＆井上喜久子さん降臨！ 「『おねがい☆ティーチャー＆ツインズ』放送＆聖地巡礼10周年記念イベント Ecclesia -エクレシヤ-」開催." animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1345707675. - "The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin." Edited by Michael Holquist, trans. by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. University of Texas Press, 1981. - In Theory Bakhtin: Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia." Andrew Robinson. ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-bakhtin-1 - “Location Hunt 20040101-0113: Onegai Teacher/Twins.” http://www.cuso4.org/photos/20040101-tyo/20040101-tyo-loc-oneti.htm. - "Nagano Matsumoto City Trip: Old Kaichi Elementary School, Old Matsumoto High School." blog.goo.ne.jp/railroad-travel-kenji/e/f8d4b48932ff3d1457f3928999869154 - “Onegai! Pilgrimage to Lake Kizaki.” Cythoplazma, cythoplazma.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/onegai-pilgrimage-to-lake-kizaki, August 24, 2016. - Okamoto, Takeshi. “A Study on Impact of Anime on Tourism in Japan: A Case of ‘Anime Pilgrimage’.” 北海道大学文化資源マネジメント論集 (Web-Journal of tourism and Cultural Studies), vol. 13, pp. 1-9. - Okamoto, Takeshi. “Otaku tourism and the anime pilgrimage phenomenon in Japan.” Japan Forum, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 12-36. - Ōtsuka, Eiji. “World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative.” Trans. Marc Steinberg, Mechademia vol. 5, 2010, pp. 99-116. - Seaton, Philip & Takayoshi Yamamura. “Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism – Introduction.” Japanese Forum, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1-11. - Seaton, Philip, et al. Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to “Sacred Sites” of Popular Culture. Cambria Press, 2017. - "Stroll Around Azubu-Juban With 'Sailor Moon' As Your Guide." matcha-jp.com/en/2223. - Sugawa-Shimada, Akiko. “Rekijo, pilgrimage and ‘pop-spiritualism’: pop culture-induved heritage tourism of/for young women.” Japan Forum, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 37-58. Video - 木崎湖 空撮 20160430: youtube.com/watch?v=_zbfh_QeYWc. ありがとうございました！ - Hajisai Matsuri Festival -Anime Lucky Star Mikoshi part 1- 2016 Festival of Japan Matsuri: youtube.com/watch?v=6i41ZRhR2Oc - Nakayama Kannon temple Takarazuka city Hyogo Prefecture: youtube.com/watch?v=4a98pENgdcw&t=86s - Nishinomiya High School - Suzumiya Haruhi real school: youtube.com/watch?v=FVmITgZaBjE - Tsunami in Oarai Ibaraki Japan: youtube.com/watch?v=85gQNHdeQf0 - Please Teacher (Spoilers) - Please Twins (Spoilers) - Akage no Anne - Kimi no Na Ha (Spoilers) - Kobayashi no Maid-Dragon - Girls Und Panzer Film - Lucky Star - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Sora Yori mo tooi BashoAudio - Demo Suki, Please Teacher OST - I Bet You Wonder Why, Lee Rosevere - Mizuho, Please Teacher OST - Wasurerarenai, Please Twins OST - Under Suspicion, Lee RosevereAudio by WW2Dragon: - The song - really just zentbo - new gold - Bool swquad
Your Name and Shin Godzilla: The Shadows of Fukushima Pause and Select 2018-03-09 | Huge thanks to Thomas Lamarre for his time!Please check out his upcoming book, The Anime Ecology: http://amzn.to/2Deaa7Y---Stray Notes: - I wanted to go for a bit more of a faster subtitling feel, to reflect the "screens upon screens" vibe - Sorry about the audio, it kinda can't be helped, considering the context of everything! - I want to make a correction in that the article I linked about Shinkai && Abe might be me coming to my own conclusions (that you might disagree with), and that's okay with me, I think the argument still generally holds up - At the time of my writing this description, I am really hungry, so I might end up adding or removing stuff---Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Text: - "Other Voices." http://shinkaimakoto.jp - Watanabe, Daisuke. "『君の名は。』の大ヒットはなぜ“事件”なのか？ セカイ系と美少女ゲームの文脈から読み解く." http://realsound.jp/movie/2016/09/post-2675.html - Fifield, Anna. "The new Godzilla film imagines a strong Japan pushing back against the U.S." http://wapo.st/2Hh4w7l - Ando, Kenji. 【3.11】『君の名は。』新海誠監督が語る 「2011年以前とは、みんなが求めるものが変わってきた」. http://bit.ly/2Hl5AY1 - Azuma et al. "The Experience and Discourse of Two Earthquakes." The Era of Disasters and the Words of Critical Thought. Genron, April 15, 2012.---Video: - "2017-11-04. 福島県大熊町熊川地区." youtube.com/watch?v=ZYlnx2GsaNI - Charlotte - Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai - Haru no Ashioto - Ef- A Fairy Tale of Two - BITTERSWEET Fools Demo video - Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu - Five Centimeters per Second - "Fumiko Yanagi 柳 冨美 -1." youtube.com/watch?v=aLvj2cA-2iM - Kimi no Na ha - Madoka Magica - The Place Promised in Our Early Days - Saikano - Japan Sinks! (2006) - Gojira (1954) - Shin Gojira - Tokimeki Memorial (1994) - Voices of a Distant Star---Audio: - "Phantom from Space" by Kevin MacLeod - "Sad Marimba Planet" by Lee Rosevere - "Golden Sphere" by ROZKOL - "Persecution of the Masses," Shin Gojira original soundtrack - "Organization Formed," Shin Gojira original soundtrack---Audio By WW2Dragon: - This hopefully turns out better - The Last Piano - Masterful mask made my mold - last mu - I HEAR THE Screams - EVANBELLION
Google Hangouts talk about Subjectivity Pause and Select 2018-02-03 | Here, I'm joined by a few folks to talk about Subjectivity, by Nick Mansfield, and subjectivity in general!
Contours of Lolicon Pause and Select 2017-12-23 | Full Audio Here!youtu.be/I6qsnjxBLjcThird part of a multi-part series with Patrick Galbraith, author of The Moe Manifesto!You can find the first part here:youtube.com/watch?v=75gNr8b2Ey8You can find the second part here:youtu.be/q2KK0U3gcaECheck out The Moe Manifesto here:http://amzn.to/2w1YstZ---Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Drawings courtesy of Lorpo!otsume.deviantart.comFootage:- 高橋留美子 原画展初日挨拶- Japanese Kawaii LOLITA FASHION MODEL JURA interview｜ロリータファッションモデルじゅらインタビュー- Lolita (1962, 1997)- Lolita fashion show ｜ALICE and the PIRATES- Akihabara Footage from Motionplaces.com- マエパツヒメカ／Lolitina- Tokyo Traintracks (from Videvo)- GFF01ガーリズム ロリータファッションショー Girlism Lolita& Girly Fashion Show- Magnetic Tape - 4942- Stacey Dooley Investigates Young Sex for Sale in Japan- Manga International Library at Meiji University- NDL PR video (English)- 斎藤 環（精神科医・批評家）×大澤 聡（批評家・メディア史研究者） 批評の奇妙な思春期――1980年代／文学／メディア- ロリコンと化す野々村議員UC ConvertedHuge thanks to Deerstalker Pictures for their work on "The Secret Life of the Lolita" Parts 1 and 2, of which you can find here:Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=HOeh_O2vi48Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=2JYp1XIZoAsAnime:- Aim for the Top! Gunbuster- Astarotte no Omocha!- Bakemonogatari- Boku dake ga Inai Machi- Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai!- Clannad- Daicon III- Daicon IV- Dance in the Vampire Bund- Eromanga-Sensei- Fune wo Amu- Gabriel Dropout- Gate Jietai Kanochi Nite, Kaku Tatakaeri- Ghost in the Shell- Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu Ka- Gosick- Junjou Romantica- Kanon (Gameplay video)- Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon- Kodomo no Jikan (OVA, Nigakki)- Lolita Anime (WonderKids variant)- Lupin III The Castle of Cagliostro- Made in Abyss- Mahoromatic- Mahou Tenshi Creamy Mami ~Lovely Serenade~- Majokko Megu-chan- Masamune-kun no Revenge- Minky Momo- Mitsudomoe- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack- Nanatsuiro Drops- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind- Neo Angelique ~Abyss~- Neon Genesis Evangelion- Nisemonogatari- No Game; No Life- Ore no Imouto- Otaku no Video- Ouran High School Host Club- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt- Puni Puni Poemy- Sailor Moon- Shounen Maid- Space Battleship Yamato- Spirited Away- Steel Angel Kurumi- Tetsujin 28-go- This Ugly Yet Beautiful World- Urusei Yatsura (TV Show, Only You, Beautiful Dreamer)- Uchiyama Aki's Lolita Anime (Sick Aki-chan, Milk-drinking Doll, Peeing Game)- Venus to Mamoru- Watashi ga Moutete Doushinda- Youjo SenkiAudio:- Audio from Lee Rosevere's "Under Suspicion and "Thoughtful"- Utterance from WNYC's "Porn's Fine Lines", which you can hear here:wnyc.org/story/131253-porns-fine-lines- The rest of the music by Skrullz / wW2Dragon
The Other Miyazaki Pause and Select 2017-10-04 | Second part of a multi-part series with Patrick Galbraith, author of The Moe Manifesto!You can find the first part here:youtube.com/watch?v=75gNr8b2Ey8Huge thanks to Androniki Christodolou for her help with photo materials from "Otaku Spaces"! Please check out her work here:http://androniki.comCheck out The Moe Manifesto here:http://amzn.to/2w1YstZ---Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Huge shoutout to Rambalac for his AMAZING walkthrough footage of Comiket and Akihabara! Please check him out here:youtube.com/user/RambalacAkihabara:youtube.com/watch?v=lgfCDt--Wc4youtube.com/watch?v=A0PngQBMw6wComiket:youtube.com/watch?v=sgFMnXy3yiIFootage:- Akihabara Geeks (2005)- Itasha Festival:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHpI...- Pretty much a ton of footage from Ryohoji Temple's Youtube account: youtube.com/user/829hachioji- A series of footage from Videvo- Stacy Dooley's "Young Sex for Sale in Japan (2017)"- 宮崎勤死刑囚に刑執行- 東浩紀×岡田斗司夫「本当に初めての対談～ニコ生トークセッション」 岡田斗司夫クロニクル 2013.1.21- ニコ生トークセッション「愚民社会」大塚英志×宮台真司- Anime North 2016 Cosplay Music VideoShows:- Castle of Cagliostro- Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai! Ren- Gabriel Dropout- Genshiken Nidaime- Idolmaster Cinderella Girls- Kamichu!- Kanon (2003)- Made in Abyss- Magical Girl Madoka Magica- Nanatsuiro Drops- Nisemonogatari- Strike Witches: The MovieMusic:- Ave Marimba- Hydra- Silver Flame
What is Moe(phobia)? Pause and Select 2017-07-27 | First part of a multi-part series with Patrick Galbraith, author of The Moe Manifesto!Huge thanks to Androniki Christodolou for her help with photo materials from "Otaku Spaces"! Please check out her work here:http://androniki.comCheck out The Moe Manifesto here:http://amzn.to/2w1YstZ---Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect--- - Huge thanks to Gezac for his random Akihabara Footage: youtube.com/watch?v=zJZplcDkoLU!!Note: My idiot brain misheard 2D Nijigen for Mediaken. My apologies.Footage: - Akihabara Geeks (2005) - Itasha Festival:youtube.com/watch?v=yhHpIi8rc4w - Pretty much a ton of footage from Ryohoji Temple's Youtube account: youtube.com/user/829hachioji - A series of footage from Videvo - Marcel Theroux Visits a Maid Cafe - Stacy Dooley's "Young Sex for Sale in Japan (2017)" - ニコ生トークセッション「愚民社会」大塚英志×宮台真司 - 鷲宮の痛い夏「らき☆すた」痛みこし2008Shows: - Anohana - Castle of Cagliostro - Clannad - Di Gi Charat - Eromanga Sensei - Evangelion - Gakkou Gurashi - Girlish Number - Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu Ka - Gunslinger Girl - Hetalia Axis Powers - Idolmaster Cinderella Girls - Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade - Kemono Friends - Kimi no Na Wa - Kobayashi Maid Dragon - K-On! - Lucky Star - Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Minky Momo - Moetan - Moutete ga Doushinda - Nausicaa, Valley of the Wind - New Game - Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R - One Piece - The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya - Tokimeki Memorial Only Love - Uragi-San - Yuri on IceMusic: - Accralate The Dark Continent - Little Drunk Quiet Floats - Heart Break
How ERASEDs panels weaponize sympathy Pause and Select 2017-06-20 | Here is the previous ERASED video mentioned at the beginning:youtube.com/watch?v=JWVBeIxRV2oDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectCheck out Stevem!youtube.com/channel/UCUCn-bkupQ9SMI6005R684ACheck out his work Samurai Jack!youtu.be/ab4WmuYJ8Y4Having difficulty with the narration? It's posted publicly on my Patreon:patreon.com/posts/video-script-11845075---Stray Notes: - These notes are written at 3 AM in the morning, so watch out - I think an incredibly thematic component in ERASED is not time or belonging, but *memory*. Not only is Satoru's memory really hazy, but there's a sort of fluidity that's taken advantage of in the panelling of the story that affects our sense of comfort, if that makes sense - A really interesting standout is also how Sanbe uses inter-panel motion during moments of great tension and when he uses intra-panel motion during 'investigative' or 'calming' moments - This was supposed to be a one-off random video that I just ranted but then I ended up putting it on my main channel because it took me too many hours editing for me to put it on my secondary - Cohn's work is interesting, definitely a cool foil for McCloud's body of work; I'm hugely simplifying it, of course - I know I just throw out the five indicators without actually talking about them, but it's mainly a mix of (1) wanting to keep this as short as possible and (2) trying to synthesize them together - My first 'formal' analysis of a work in a long time, been a whileText:You can find Cohn's downloadable papers on his website at visuallanguagelab.com. - Cohn, Neil. "Japanese Visual Language: The Structure of Manga." Chapter in Manga: The Essential Reader, 2008. - Cohn, Neil. "Comics, Linguistics, and Visual Language: The past and future of a field." Chapter in Linguistics and the Study of Comics, 2012.Video: - None! ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗAudio: - ERASED OST
On Tonkatsu DJs Imagined Communities Pause and Select 2017-05-26 | Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectCheck out Kor Reviews!youtube.com/user/KorStoneswordCheck out his work on Music in 3-Gatsu no Lion!youtube.com/watch?v=fCY0aiPOUNACheck out Oscillot (or rather, MrAJCosplay cause he's actually active)!youtube.com/user/MrAJcosplayCheck out Rogersmith2004!youtube.com/channel/UCNcvQ-suujVe_G1e5buCWDQHaving difficulty with the narration? Script is here!patreon.com/posts/tonkatsu-dj-11406903---Stray Notes: - I am incredibly paranoid on the formal and cultural distinctions between Hip-Hop/DJ and DJ and EDM/DJ and DJ, but the literature used them fairly interchangeably and everyone I emailed told me that there's so much interplay that differentiating them is kind of a shit-show waiting to happen - None of my Stray Notes are gonna make sense because I'm writing this summary hungry and tired - This is a really large and chaotic field, so I think it's really challenging to tackle this sort of idea - There's an interesting manga titled 'Good Father' that has a father who's a DJ and makes his daughter's boyfriend learn the ropes of being a DJ to become 'suitable' for his daughter. It's not the most exciting, but it is pretty funny how it draws on some similiar sentiments of 'how to be' - Overall it was a really fun short, had a lot of good comedic moments, had a blast watching it - The manga reveals a lot more characters, but they fall into the same 'meaning trap' that I mentioned, that this component so beautifully fits in with that sense of 'Japaneseness' - Is Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou nationalist? I strongly doubt it. However, like I emphasized, it's an interesting look at how it *can* easily lead to it - Liyoon has the worst Twitter account, he just self-promotes and gets into fights on Twitter - Wanted to talk about Chill Out, the iyasu, and that whole muzak scene, but it ended up being way too unwieldly for thatText: - "Ambushed by Ninja!: Kamisama Kiss Director Akitaro Daichi and Detective Conan Voice Actor Naoko Matsui at AnimeNEXT 2016." Ani-Gamers, http://www.anigamers.com/interviews/akitaro-daichi-naoko-matsui-animenext-2016. Accessed March 02 2017. - Condry, Ian. Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and The Paths of Cultural Globalization. Duke University Press, 2006. - Manabe, Noriko. "Representing Japan: 'national' style among Japanese hip-hop DJs." Popular Music, vol. 31, no. 1, 2013, pp. 35-50. - Manabe, Noriko. "Music in Japanese Antinuclear Demonstrations: The Evolution of a Contentious Performance Model." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, http://apjif.org/-Noriko-Manabe/4014/article.html. Accessed February 07, 2017. - Morris, David Z. "Half-Japanese." signal to Noise, vol. 48, 2007, pp. 39-43. - Morris, David Z. "The Sakura of Madness: Japan's Nationalist Hip hop and the Parallax of Globalized Identity Politics." Communication, Culture & Critique, vol. 6, 2013, pp. 459-480. - "No 43 [Pop culture] A Recipe for success." Zoom Japan, 22 August 2016, http://www.zoomjapan.info/2016/08/23/no-43-pop-culture-a-recipe-for-success/. Accessed 25 February 2017. - Schloss, Joseph. Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop. Wesleyan University Press, 2014. - Yasuda, Masahiro. "Whose United Future? how Japanese DJs cut across Market Boundaries." Perfect Beat, vol. 4, no. 4, 2000, pp. 45-60.Video: - The Cove - Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou - KP (feat. Liyoon, FUNI) - Ripped a bunch of footage here: http://tonkatsudj.tokyo/Audio: - Daisuke Fujiwara's "CHECK THE BACK UP" - DJ. Krush and CL Smooth's "Only the Strong Survive" - Drake Stafford's "Split Even" - Otis McDonald's "Erykah" - Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou OST, "Rainy Lenny"Talky Beat by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/265/talky-beatArtist: http://www.twinmusicom.org
Boku Girl and the Anxious Body Pause and Select 2017-04-08 | Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectCheck out KYDB!http://bit.ly/2oNTn8tStray Notes: - I never want to do this again, but I know I will - Huge thanks to Veronica Hollinger of Science Fiction Studies, Indigo (@IndigoferaDyeri), Kuku-Riri (@UsaagiBuster), and The Accursed Chair (@TheAccursedChair) for double checking my script! I hugely appreciate the help! - Huge thanks to Otaku Deity (@ODAnimeReviews) for double-checking my translations, it's greatly appreciated! - I am not trying to disparage the transgender lens; rather, I think Boku Girl is a fairly interesting exercise in subject construction - Metaphysical Dissonance has a fantastic piece of work on Hourou Musuko through Butler's lens, you might find it interesting here: http://www.metaphysicaldissonance.com - Overall, I generally liked it - It's kinda interesting how they're all influenced by their fathers (Yamada, Mizuki, and Takeru) to some degree. Not sure what that implies, but very interesting implications - I think Fujiyama as a specific case study would be interesting, since she is literally a performer who goes on to perform, and the whole justice mask is ironically an unveiling of her 'true' self but also a masking of her social identityText: - Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Routledge. New York. 2011. - Butler, Judith. "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory." Theatre Journal 40, No. 4 (1988), pp. 519-531. - McLelland, Mark and Romit Dasgupta. Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan. Routledge. New York. 2011. - Akira, Sugito. "sugi-log", http://sugilog.blogspot.ca, accessed March 23rd, 2017.Audio - Chill Day by Lankey - Covert Affair (Kevin MacLeod) - Comfort Fit (I don't remember the original artist, I'm so sorry - please message me and I will credit you properly!)
Superflat, Hideaki, and Chobits Pause and Select 2017-02-19 | This is the second part of a two part conversation! Please check out the first part here:youtube.com/watch?v=6GpUQ42qtRAYou can purchase The Anime Machine here:http://a.co/1gEyPp3Worldcat Information is here:http://bit.ly/2k0V0gnDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - As always, this assumes a working understanding of some of the ideas in The Anime Machine to get at most of what's implied, but it should be able to stand on its own - Fun fact: Chobits is one of my favourites precisely because of Lamarre's work on it---Footage:All media listed may be spoiled. - Chobits - Cowboy Bebop - Gunbuster - Madoka Magica - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Neon Genesis Evangelion - Laputa~Castle in the Sky - Only Yesterday - Spirited Away - Howl's Moving Castle - The Wind Rises - Cassette Tape, courtesy of Beachfront Roll:http://bit.ly/2kWRCkgMaterials: - Real Account (Manga)---Audio: - Air Prelude by Kevin MacLeod - Avec Soin Romance by Kevin MacLeod - Fly me to the Moon, Cover - Yasahisa no Shouzou
Miyazaki, Lineage, and Depth Pause and Select 2017-01-25 | This is the first part of a two-part conversation!Major thanks to Dr. Thomas Lamarre for his time, I'll be posting the second part half once I finish it!You can purchase The Anime Machine here:http://a.co/1gEyPp3Worldcat Information is here:http://bit.ly/2k0V0gnDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - If you've read The Anime Machine already you'll have already been familiar with this stuff, so this is moreso for the folks who haven't - I am NOT making any particular claims on budgeting, production workflow, or anything of the sort during the discussion on the economics - while I use Kill la Kill juxtaposed to Utena (and Kuleshov would dictate I am making an analogous comparison), I wanted to emphasize the aesthetic nature over the economic nature, which is Lamarre's main argument anyways - I know it's kinda dumb to show the Stereoscopic Rotary camera when talking about the multiplanar camera, but there's not much quality footage of the multiplanar camera that I can get (affordably) - I am aware that Keiichi Tanaami's work isn't commercial, per se, but I think it suffices in fulfilling the general psychedelic visage we'd see in that timeframe - I couldn't find some major names like Kinrō no ari and Dorei no sensō, but I did find some of Seo Mitsuyo's work - I am well aware of the irony in me using footage from projects that came from early 2010s Anime Mirai despite Lamarre's comments on cases of people rejecting funding from the government on aesthetic and ideological grounds - these were the footages I could find, so it's primarily a practical reason, please do not assume I am making a definitive claim on either my behalf or Lamarre's---Text: - "Japanese Animated Commercials." Lost Planet Anime, Cartoon Research, edited January 7, 2015, http://bit.ly/2jSslYP.---Footage:All media listed may be spoiled. - Akage no Anne - Akira - Alakazam the Great - Astro Boy - Bubblegum Crisis - Concrete Revolutio - Corporal Norakuro - Cowboy Bebop - ERASED - Evangelion - FLCL - The Flintstones - Flip Flappers - Future Boy Conan - Galaxy Express 999 - Gosensozama Banbanzai - Hai to Gensou no Grimgar - Gunbuster - Hey There It's Yogi Bear! - Hourou Musuko - Howl's Moving Castle - Inari Konkon - The Jetsons - Kare Kano - Kiki's Delivery Service - Kill la Kill - Kokoro Connect - Laputa Castle in the Sky - My Neighbor Totoro - Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors - Nadia The Secret of Blue Water - Nagi no Asukara - Nausicaa Valley of the Wind - Now and Then, Here and There - Patlabor 2: The Movie - Porco Rosso - Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea - Princess Mononoke - Mawaru Penguindrum - Revolutionary Girl Utena - Rose of Versailles - Rurouni Kenshin - Samurai Champloo - Scooby Doo! Where are You? - Serial Experiments Lain - Spirited Away - Steamboy - Tokyo Godfathers - The Wind Rises - Wolf Boy Ken - Yokohama Kaidashi KikouOther:Tezuka NHK Documentary:youtube.com/watch?v=yULt_h3E_AgCommercials:youtube.com/watch?v=Znfzrd2KVRkKeiichi Tanaami:youtube.com/watch?v=pHV9iQMy4ggFlesicher Brothers Stereoscopic Rotary Process:youtube.com/watch?v=qmUsSN0tdo8Young Animator Projects:youtube.com/watch?v=-96nKlhzYqYKatsuhiro Otomo's Commercial for the Canon T70:youtube.com/watch?v=NfdG892nThc---Music: - Avec Soin by Kevin MacLeod (Thank you based Incompetech) - Under Suspicion by Lee Rosevere - One Summers Day, Spirited Away OST
Understanding Disaster, Part 4: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and the Harmonious Apocalypse Pause and Select 2016-12-18 | In case you missed Part 3:youtube.com/watch?v=dCKZQphDyLYDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectHUGE thanks to Mike from Anime Journeys for providing me with a 1080p photo of Washinomiya! Please check out his stuff here:http://mikehattsu.blogspot.caAlso huge thanks to Michael Vito for helping me find some material on pilgrimages to Seize! Please check him out here:http://likeafishinwater.com---Here's some more information on several questions that might arise:http://bit.ly/2i4jGQEStray Notes: - Yes, I know I mispronounced Seize. - This was by far the longest video I've ever had to edit and I hope I never have to do this again - I am incredibly, incredibly, INCREDIBLY nervous about this one, because it's probably not gonna turn out well for me - Hopefully I got most of Heidegger okay, I looked at how secondary sources treated Heidegger and it lined up with how I understood his stuff - I removed this giant chunk on Sabaibukei cause it just didn't really fit in well with the rest of what I was talking about - Takekuma seems to have deleted his tweet, I guess, but he does acknowledge it existed.---Text:- Azuma, Hiroki. "The Era of Disasters and the Words of Critical Thought." Trans. John Person. Genron: Portal on Critical Discourse in Japan.- Cooper, David E. "Heidegger on Nature." Environmental Values 14, 2005, 339-51.- Furukawa, Hiroko and Rayna Denison. "Disaster and relief: The 3.11 Tohoku and Fukushima disasters and Japan's media industries." International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2014, pp. 1-17.- Hairston, Marc. "A Healing, Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko." Mechademia, vol. 3, 2008, pp. 256-258.- Hirata, Keiko and Mark Warschauer. "The Paradox of Harmony." Yale Press, London, 2014.- Kinnia, Yau Shuk-ting. "Therapy for Depression: Social Meaning of Japanese Melodrama in the Heisei Era." The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, 2012, pp. 1-11.- Mori, Yoshitaka. "New collectivism, participation and politics after the Earth Japan Great Earthquake." World Art, vol. 1, no. 5, 2015, pp. 167-186.- Napier, Susan J. "The Anime Director, the Fantasy Girl, and the Very Real Tsunami." The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, 2012, pp. 1-10.- O'Keeffe, Christopher. "Director Nobuhiko Obayashi on Film, Dreams, and Living for 400 Years." Tokyo Weekender, accessed December 13, 2016.- Roquet, Paul. "Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm: Mood Regulation in Contemporary Japanese Fiction." The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, 2008, pp. 87-111.- Roquet, Paul. "Atmosphere as Culture: Ambient Media and Postindustrial Japan." Thesis, Berkeley, 2012.- Takekuma, Kentaro. "The Day The 'Endless Everyday' Ended." 2011, Genron: After the Disaster.- Tanaka, Motoko. "Trends of Fiction in 2000s Japanese Pop Culture." ejcjs, vol. 14, no. 2, 2014, pp. 1-16.- Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction." Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2014.- Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Japan." Asia Pacific World, vol. 3, no. 2, 2012, pp. 67-82.- Thomas, Steve. "What will the Fukushima disaster change?" Energy Policy, no. 45, 2012, pp. 12-17.- Tsunehiro, Uno. "Imagination after the Earthquake: Japan's Otaku Culture in the 2010s." Translated by Jeffrey Guarneri.---Video: - Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko - Sora no Woto - The Wind Rises - From Up on Poppy Hill - The Tale of Princess Kaguya - Lucky Star - K-On! - Azumanga Daioh---Audio:- Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod - Lost Frontier - Relique Abandonee - Une limere envotante - Yuunagi no Jidai - CAfe Alpha- Zydeco Piano Party
AMVs and Transformative Storytelling Pause and Select 2016-11-13 | You can check out Sabra's Thesis here:http://bit.ly/2fNg1FMDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - This is probably the most difficult video to edit, purely because I had to make so many small edits to sync up the editing of a bunch of other AMVs to the video - hopefully it all worked out okay! - My aim is to get a full interview up (mainly since Harris' comments on AMVs are really fascinating) in the coming months or weeks - Turn on CC to find out which AMV was used when!---Video:Video Maker's VCR Editing clip:youtube.com/watch?v=6BRC3eaytBM---Media List: - I tried to choose images from AMVs that didn't have any major spoilers. If you want to know which AMV is listed and when, just turn on Closed Captioning and turn it on to 'English' (not automatic).Please check out the 2013 Iron Chef winner, it's VERY well edited for something that was done in two hours:youtube.com/watch?v=GMX3RO2NNgIListed AMVs:Let Them Eat Rei - jbonehttp://bit.ly/2eus6DDSurpass Reality - EvilSpiritAMVhttp://bit.ly/2fPpzSoThe Path to Bringing Us Together - jcain46http://bit.ly/2eustOFLaurence - EvilSpiritAMVhttp://bit.ly/2fwibKG1,2 Kyle You - Mallyhttp://bit.ly/2f5SLmIOneiro - PieandBeerhttp://bit.ly/1gDk88cNow She Knows Hardship - greyascrodhttp://bit.ly/2f5TGU2Mr. Hero - onewayshttp://bit.ly/2foENPxReclaim - Xophilarushttp://bit.ly/2foD0u7Rubber Duck - Animatedhttp://bit.ly/2f61aGyNever Let Go - KawaiYumehttp://bit.ly/2fPAHP7The Sound of My Heart Heart - Warlike Cygnethttp://bit.ly/2fNpL2VThe Secret of Blue Water - Iunavashihttp://bit.ly/2fK4CrCEvery Little Thing She does is Magic - Bobby 'C-ko' Beaverhttp://bit.ly/2fwoDRQNew Feelings - AMV Strathttp://bit.ly/2fP6bXzAnimegraphy 2014 - qyllhttp://bit.ly/2fP3yoUPandora - Centurionehttp://bit.ly/2f60b9yJohn the Hellhound - SilentManhttp://bit.ly/2fwq3MjPicturesque - Kain-x-spirits, AimoAio, AMVLuna, Eake4, Heavy amv, MagicDarkLight, MimS, MystyAMV, ProjectBarcodeError, Shadox-kun, Vivamist, Warlike Swans, [madaraxD], kirin91http://bit.ly/2f642U5Levity - PieandBeerhttp://bit.ly/2g3FU9fInside the Opened - Chained(E)Studiom Shalyeshttp://bit.ly/2fP7ndNAnthem of Anime - Zakurohttp://bit.ly/2foIXHgA boy in funny red boots - Dragonrider1227http://bit.ly/2fwnJ7QDem Feels - Kineticshttp://bit.ly/2f61QMaWatery Symphony of Kai - Sinyhttp://bit.ly/2fPAWdcLucy - Sephirothskrhttp://bit.ly/2fP84ndLonely Souls - DieguitoAMVhttp://bit.ly/2fNrtkNNeapolitan - Copycat Revolverhttp://bit.ly/2foFatlLove Was Once Truth - Magicflierhttp://bit.ly/2fK5v3jUnbound - Ryuu-Donohttp://bit.ly/2f68ORd---Audio:- Instrumental of Johnathan Coulton's Still Alive"Fresh Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"Severe Tire Damage" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Sweetness and Lightnings Counter-Hegemonic Masculinity Pause and Select 2016-10-27 | Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectCheck out Realjpoe's video here!youtube.com/watch?v=n0hBoN-6Gws---Stray Notes: - Originally I was gonna focus on the food, since there's a great interview by the voice actors focusing on the foodie elements of it (thus sending me down this rabbit hole of Japanese food as power structures), but ultimately after reading the manga I decided against it. - This has been the most complex editing I've done for a video thus far. It also took the longest. Hopefully you like it! - There's some scant literature on Japanese fathers, and even more scant literature on Japanese single fathers, so it was pretty difficult to get a good gauge going for how the research was going to approach. Many times I thought of focusing on the technical aspects of the series. - Despite me loosely using the word 'show' a lot, it's dominantly the manga. So I guess it's a manga video? - Cooking Papa! is a great manga. Y'all should read it! It's a lot of fun! - Gido Amagakure is known for Boys Love manga, which has been a very interesting subgenre for studying anti-hegemonic masculinity. I do not believe for a second that she has a very specific idea of masculinity, and that it's generally a very contemporary one, which ends up framing Sweetness and Lightning.---Video: - Sweetness and Lightning - Papa no Iukuto wa kikinasai - Clannad: After Story - Cooking Papa! - Aishiteruze Baby!---Text: - Allison, Anne. "Japanese Mothers and Obentos: the Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus." Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 64, No. 4, 1991, pp. 195-208. - Cavcic, Antonija. "From Dashing to Delicious: The Gastrorgasmic Aesthetics of Contemporary BL Manga." The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, 2013, pp. 278-286. - Mizukoshi, Kosuke, Florian Kohlbacher and Christoph Schimkowsky. "Japan's ikumen discourse: macro and micro perspectives on modern fatherhood." Japan Forum, vol. 28, no. 2, 2016, pp.212-232. - Oyama, Atsuko. Gender, Family, and New Styles of Fatherhood: Modernization and Globalization in Japan. Dissertation, The University of Arizona, 2014. UMI, 2014. ProQuest 3634257. - Rush, Michael. "Theorising fatherhood, welfare and the decline of patriarchy in Japan." International Review of Sociology, vol. 25, no. 3, 2015, pp. 403-414. - Shwalb, David and Barbara Shwalb. "Fatherhood in Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan, and Australia." Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, vol. 6, no. 3, 2014, pp. 3-19. - Yasumoto, Saori and Ralph LaRossa. "The Culture of Fatherhood in Japanese Comic Strips: A Historical Analysis." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, vol. 41, no. 4, 2010, pp. 611-624. - Yuen, Shu Min. "From men to 'boys' - The cooking danshi in Japanese mass media." Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 44, 2014, pp. 220-227.---Audio:Title "Until We Meet Again"Author "Julie Maxwell"Source: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Julie_Maxwells_Piano_MusicLicense: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0Website: http://www.juliemaxwell.com - Memories, from bensound.com - Thoughts of You by Dana Boul
Koe no Katachis Sympathetic Panels Pause and Select 2016-09-03 | My first pure-manga video! This was a lot more work than I expected :\Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectCheck out Eski Boo!http://bit.ly/2bXd6J1---Stray Notes: - I am definitely going to cover the movie - At the time of me writing this, I am super tired - I'm not a big comic dude, so this took a lot of reading for me to get confident enough to script and prepare a video, so my apologies on the delays.---Text: - Cohn, Neil. "Comics, Linguistics, and Visual Language: The past and future of a field." http://bit.ly/2c1Gdgz. - Eisner, Will. Comics and Sequential Art. Norton, New York. 2008. - McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. William Morrow, New York. 1993. - Okuyama, Yoshiko, and Mariko Iwai. "Use of Text Messaging by Deaf Adolescents in Japan." Sign Language Studies 11, 3 (2011): 375-407.---Media: - Koe no Katachi Manga---Audio: - Wisps of Whorls and Relaxing Piano Music both by Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech
On Oshii Pause and Select 2016-08-19 | Huge shoutout to Dr. Brian Ruh for his time! You can find him on twitter here: http://www.twitter.com/brianruhPlease check out his book, Stray Dog of Anime (2nd Edition) here:http://amzn.to/2bv8xsEYou can find the unedited interview here:http://bit.ly/2bE5iO6Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselect---*Note:* I am very much aware that Hiroyuki Okiura directed Jin-Roh, but since Oshii was the principal writer I thought it would be fine to include clips of Jin-Roh, primarily since it does follow the pattern of a lot of Oshii's other works anyways.---Media: - Gosenzosama Babanzai - Ghost in the Shell - Ghost in the Shell: Innocence - Patlabor: The Movie - Patlabor: The Movie 2 - Dallos - Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade - The Red Spectacles - The Garm Wars - The Sky Crawlers - Urusei Yatsura: Only you - Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer - A Conversation with Mamoru Oshii (TIFF) - Persona (1966), by Ingmar Bergman - Tenshi no Tamago - Oshii Adult Swim commercial - Kerberos Panzer Corps manga---Audio: - Immersed, by Kevin MacLeod - Jin-Roh OST: Blue Cloud, Grace Omega, Latest Flame - Patlabor: The Movie 2 OST: With Love
Understanding Disaster, Part 3: Evangelion and the World Apocalypse Pause and Select 2016-08-09 | In case you missed Part 2:youtube.com/watch?v=L5XeDQ6sb2gDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - Sorry if my Lacanian summary is unclear. I am not a psychology major, so I had to read and re-read a bit of Lacan to get a good idea of what is being presented. I hope I hit the major things. - I am hugely against different aspect ratios. Since I'm not talking about the cinematography of Evangelion, I decided to manually align 4:3 footage into a 16:9 frame. I hope this doesn't bother anyone. - Note, I am not a huge EVA fan, so I am more than certain many of you (probably most of you) are aware of the diagetic narrative particularities associated with the material.---Text - Azuma, Hiroki. "Japan's Database Animals." Minnesota Press 2009, translated by Jonathan Abel and Shion Kono. - Bevacqua, Michael Lujan. "Lacan Avec Evangelion." Accessed July 28 2016, http://bit.ly/2aQpI46. - Duan, Charles. "Constructing the Self: Views of Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Kareshi Kanojo no Jijo." http://bit.ly/2avEGk1. - "Empty Gestures and Performatives." Lacan. July 20 2016, http://bit.ly/2aXbsHB. - Howard, Christopher. "The ethics of Sekai-kei: Reading Hiroki Azuma with Slavoj Zizek." Science Fiction Film and Television 7:3 (2014), 365-386. - "Jacques Lacan." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Accessed June 20, 2016, http://stanford.io/2aHPb23. - "Jacques Lacan." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Accessed June 21, 2016, http://bit.ly/2aXaNpl. - Lamarre, Thomas, Shion Kono, and Miyadai Shinji. "Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992." Mechademia 6 (2011), 231-258. - Malone, Paul, Madeline Ashby, and Thomas Lamarre. "Three Faces of Eva." Mechademia 5 (2010), 345-346. - Naylor, Alex, and Elyce Rae Helford. "Introduction: Science fiction anime: national, nationless, transnational, post/colonial." Science Fiction Film and Television 7:3 (2014), 309-314. - Napier, Susan. "When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' and 'Serial Experiments Lain'." Science Fiction Studies 29:3 (2002), 418-435. - Ortega, Mariana. "My Father, He Killed Me; My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering, and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion." Mechademia 2: 10 (2007), 216-232. - Tamaki, Saito. "Beautiful Fighting Spirit." Minnesota Press 2006, translated J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson. - Tamaki, Saito. "Social Withdrawal - Adolescence without End." Minnesota Press 2013, translated by Jeffrey Angles. - Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypticism in Postwar Japanese Fiction." 2011, Thesis. - Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction." Palgrave MacMillan 2014. - Thomas, Stefanie. "Sekai-kei as Existentialist Narrative: Positioning Xenosaga within the Genre Framework." 2014, Thesis. - Thomas, Stefanie. "You Cannot See Yourself Unless There Are Others: Sekaikei as Exhortation of Societal Participation." The Phoenix Papers 2:2, 26-59.---Media - NGE (including End of Evangelion), Anime Movie and TV Show - Saikano, Anime - Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu, OVA - Hoshi no Koe, Anime Movie - Akira, Anime Movie - Zero Hour, Documentary - A, Documentary - Kobe Earthquake ITN Footage - Kobe Earthquake Footage - How Japanese Viewed Immigration in the 90s - Case Study: Japan - The Bubble Economy and the Lost Decade---Audio - Under Suspicion, Lee Rosevere - Hajimari e no Touhi (Escape to the beginning) - Borderline Case - Munashiki Nagare (The flow of emptiness) - Phantom from Space, by Kevin MacLeod - Irregular, by Kevin MacLeod - Komm, susser Tod Amaki shi yo, kitare
Boku no Hero Academia and Peace Pause and Select 2016-06-28 | Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - Warning: I say "Peace" a lot. I didn't know until I finished editing :v - I guess you can call this an approximation of terminology? I know the Metanarrative isn't exactly this, but for the worldview of the story, it's as close as we've got, and it's much more encompassing and impacting that we'd consider from a theme, for instance - I read a bunch of interviews by Kohei Horikoshi and all I can say is he seems like the most optimistic dude ever - This is a bit more of an abstract video than previous ones that I've been doing recently, so please don't get bogged down too much in the specifics (or do, it's up to you!) - This took me like, 10 hours to edit - I ain't making modifications - I called it My Hero Academia cause that name makes a bit more sense but I titled it Boku no Hero Academia for that sweeeeet SEO - Youtuber Kyle Kallgreen has a really cool video approaching the superhero metanarrative from the perspective of the Avengers - check it out! - http://bit.ly/2949ecn---Text:- Azuma, Hiroki. "Otaku: The Database Animals." University of Minnesota Press, London, 2009. - Coville, Jamie. "Seduction of the Innocents and the Attack on Comic Books," Pennsylvania State University, accessed June 20, 2016, http://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart10/cmbk4cca.html.- Hassler-Forest. "Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age." Zero Books, Winchester, 2012.- Lyotard, Jean-Francois. "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge," Theory and History of Literature 10, 1984.- McDermott, Mark. "The Invaders and the All-Star Squadron: Roy Thomas Revisits the Golden Age," article in "Captain American the Struggle of the Superhero," edited by Robert Weiner, McFarland & Company Inc., 2009.- Zizek, Slavoj. "The Sublime Object of Ideology." Verso, London, 2008.---Video: - My Hero Academia (Manga and Anime) - Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu - GATE---Audio: - Crypto and Stormfront by Kevin MacLeod from Incompetech - Boku no Hero Academia OST is a cover by Nae000, which you can find here: http://bit.ly/296B1YF
Anime, Manga, and Religiosity in Japan Pause and Select 2016-06-16 | UPDATE: Dr. Thomas was able to respond to a few comments on his website: http://www.thomasresearch.org/jolyon/interview-at-pause-and-selectDefinitely check it out!Before we get to part 3, I'm prefixing this conversation for y'all to keep in mind for Part 3 of Understanding Disaster.Please check out Dr. Baraka Thomas' book "Drawing on Tradition," which you can find here: http://amzn.to/1XskOPXDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - As always, please like and subscribe, it really helps out the channel - Again, take this as a primer for parts 3 and 4 for the next two parts of Understanding Disaster, but this video can ultimately stand on its own - Related is Josh Dunham's fantastic podcast episode on Seichijunrei and Butaitanbou - check it out, it's hugely insightful: http://bit.ly/1sIpxk0 - I really, REALLY hope people don't start snagging copyright strikes on me, none of the people (other than HiroakiShi) responded back, so I'm gonna have to defend myself through Fair Use - Been working on this project for a while, I hope you guys enjoy this! - If you've been keeping up with Dr. Thomas' work, you probably have a good idea of where I'm going to go next in Part 3, haha---Media:Youtube Channels: - 109fan: http://bit.ly/1UR7PUu - Bang Shin: http://bit.ly/17ZURAs - BarCroft TV: http://bit.ly/1Q9npw1 - Brandon Meldon: http://bit.ly/24UEn2P - Broadcast Sakura: http://bit.ly/266lv3g - fromtokio: http://bit.ly/1sIpxjR - Gachaponer: http://bit.ly/21pdCm4 - Heinke le Roux: http://bit.ly/1Ufd5ob - JaxBlade: http://bit.ly/21pceQp - kitaaaa100: http://bit.ly/1UfcUZQ - Michael Rogge: http://bit.ly/1TpaFjP - Official Youtube channel of Ryohoji Temple: http://bit.ly/1WPlYFf - One Punch Man Training: http://bit.ly/1WPlVco - ProTek Productions: http://bit.ly/1ttLYt6 - Supergenki Japan: http://bit.ly/1UfeQlf - Snaggle: http://bit.ly/1UBGrqXAnime and Manga: - 20th Century Boys - Anohana - Clannad: After Story - Free! Iwatobi Swim Club - Full Moon wo Sagashite - Happiness - Inari Kon Kon - Jigoku Shoujo - Kamisama Kiss - Kannagi - Love Live! School Idol Project - Lucky Star - My Neighbor Totoro - Nagi no Asukara - Nausicaa Valley of the Wind - Oyasumi Punpun! - Paprika - Princess Mononoke - Saint Oniisan - Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu - Spirited Away - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (plus Disappearance) - Tokyo Godfathers - Uchouten Kazoku---Music:Main track came from www.bensound.com"God Knows" cover from HiroakiShi: http://bit.ly/1Yvw3GI
Understanding Disaster, Part 1: Death Note and the Cyclical Apocalypse Pause and Select 2016-05-24 | This is the beginning of a 4-parter. I'm not the kind of person with the editing patience to sit down and edit a full 40-60 minute session, so here it is in parts.Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - I foreshadowed this on Twitter. The key word is 'tenuous' - I'm using the term language pretty loosely here, so WATCH OUT - Theoretical, non-prescriptive, I am a hack, reader-response criticism, yeah, yeah, same old song and dance routine - Massive shoutout to Reaper_V / Momon_IV for pointing me in the direction of some very useful eschatological summaries, I hugely apprecite it buddy! - I'm aware Obha and Obata tend not to really mean that much more into their work than surface-level, but Death Note does bear a lot of merit in understanding and studying because it is heavily studied, if at least because of how ridiculously famous it is in terms of general media, and understanding why or how is pretty important. Whether you agree or disagree with me is really the point where we can have some really interesting discussion. It's also really important to remember that even if they aren't intending it, they are drawing upon SOMETHING, and that interstitiality can tell us a lot of interesting things. - If the structure of this video is a bit strange from my other videos, it's because it's a bit longer holistically - I'm still doing arthouse - it's just gonna happen a little later - Eschatology is a really strange topic, and I don't major in religion or anything, so please do not hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong---Text: - Broderick, Michael. "Superflat Eschatology", Animation Studies - Animated Dialogues, 2007. - Cohn, Norman. "The Pursuit of the Millenium: Revoluationary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages", Pimlico, London, 1993. - Frohlich, Dennis Owen. "Evil Must Be Punished: Apocalyptic Religion in the Television Series Death Note", Journal of Media and Religion 11: 2012, 141-155 - Goderie, Peter and Brian Yecies. "Cultural Flows Beneath Death Note: Catching the Wave of Popular Japanese Culture in China", The Asia-Pacific Journal 8 (35): 2010. - Napier, Susan. "Death Note: The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You", Mechademia 5: 2010, 356-360. - Obha, Tsugumi and Takeshi Obata. "Death Note 13: How to Read", VIZ MEdia, San Francisco, 2008. - Tanaka, Motoko. Apocalypticism in Postwar Japanese Fiction, University of British Columbia, Thesis, 2011. - "The Abrahamic Eschatological Root," Reason and Religion, accessed May 14, 2016, http://bit.ly/1OTpCLF - Thomas, Jolyon Baraka. "Horrific 'Cults' and Comic Religion: Manga after Aum", Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 39 (1): 2012, 127-151. - Ylinen, Alice. "I Am Justice! Moral Relativity and Antiheroes in Death Note", Thesis, 2010.---Media: - Metropolis (2001) - Death Note (Manga and Anime) - Akira (Anime)---Audio: - Death Note OST - particularly L's Theme, L's B Theme, and Light's Theme
Dagashi Kashi is about Candy Pause and Select 2016-04-24 | I really want some candy.Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselectThis is a review, so please do not consider this a short form! Hence no stray notes, since the backdrop is to help the general review.---Text: - Clements, Jonathan and Helen McCarthy. The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation. Muramasa Industries, 2015. - Lamarre, Thomas. The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. University of Minnesota Press, 2009. - Steinberg, Marc. Anime's Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. - Steinberg, Marc. "The emergence of the Anime Media Mix: Character Communication and Serial Consumption." Thesis, 2009. - Several emails, hugely appreciated!---Media: - Astro Boy, 1963, plus the manga - Dagashi Kashi - Legend of the White Serpent - Shokugeki no Soma---Music: - Otis McMusic by Otis McDonald - Not for Nothing by Otis McDonald - Hang Ups by Otis McDonald
Death in Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu Pause and Select 2016-04-16 | Huge shoutouts to Dr. Till Weingartner for his expertise!Biography and Publications: http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A026/tillweingartnerComedy-Boom in Japan:http://amzn.to/22Cv8D6Huge shoutout to Roger's video (check it out!):youtube.com/watch?v=9wX7-4e2PuQDiscord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - I cannot stress how helpful originalforeignmind is (from reddit) whose expertise on the specific plays really helped me figure out what I believe is the context behind these choices. Huge shoutout! - I should stress that I am not an expert on Rakugo, so if there are any questions, please do not expect anything particularly insightful from me, Brian and I had to essentially learn as much Rakugo as we could for the sake of the show - As always, argumentative, not prescriptive!---Text: - Barnett, Michael and Martha Finnemore. "Rules of the World: International Organizations in Global Politics." Cornell University Press, 2004. - Brau, Lorie. "Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo." Lexington Books, 2008. - Crowley, Bill. "Good for a Laugh: A Comic Storyteller's Tale." Japan Quarterly 44 (4), 1997: 55. - Sasaki, Miyoko and Heinz Balkenhol. "Fascination for and Popularity of one of the Classical Japanese Arts of Narration." Journal of Popular Culture 1, 1979: 152-170. - Sweeney, Amin. "Rakugo: Professional Japanese Storytelling." Nanzan University, 1979. - "Upcoming DIJ History & Humanities Study Group." H-Net Discussion Network. http://bit.ly/22CqZz7 - Welch. Patricia. "A Laughing Critique of the Ages: Rakugo Humor and Society." Japan Quarterly 44 (4), 1997: 47.---Media: - Kimie Oshima's "Rakugo in English," youtube.com/watch?v=KDswpTwmZ44 - Katsura Kaishi's "English Rakugo," youtube.com/watch?v=vhkYNpwTKIQ - Katsura Shijaku's "Rakugo in English," youtube.com/watch?v=IHVqtfcKMQE - Tatekawa Danshi's "1980 Comic-Battle," youtube.com/watch?v=m1rPywuym7w - Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu---Audio: - Window, by The Album Leaf - Primo, by Takagi Masakatsu
The Perversion of Justice in ERASED Pause and Select 2016-03-25 | Featuring Joseph-Gordon Levitt, Ashton Kutcher, and Bruce Willis.Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - I think ERASED is one of those pieces of media that work much better as a manga than a show because of how it structures its sequential information. I may talk about that in the future. - I can understand why a lot of people are cheesy over it, and to be honest, it's not an invalid concern. - Was really hoping some sort of Persona, Butterfly Effect, or Looper reference. Got none of them :c - Come at me, Hyper Anime Reviews - You're gonna see me cite David Johnson a lot, because there's few western academics as learned and prolific as he is on Japanese criminal law - Huge shoutout to Will -FlyingEagle- for providing me with some stats, even though I only used like, one thing from them - credit where credit's due!---Text: - Johnson, David T. "Bureaucratic Corruption in Japan." JPRI Working Paper (76). - Ivkovic, Sanja Kutnjak. "To Serve and Collect: Measuring Police Corruption." The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 93 (2/3, 2003): 593-650. - Johnson, David T. "Justice System Reform in Japan: Where are the Police and Why Does it Matter?" Horitsu Jiho (2004). - Adelstein, Jake. "Abandon Hope All Ye Tried in Japan." The Daily Beast, accessed February 19, 2016, http://www.dailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/29/abandon-hope-all-ye-tried-in-japan.html. - Johnson, David T. "Japan's Prosecution System." Crime and Justice 41 (1, 2012): 35-74. - Bae, Sangmin. "International Norms, Domestic Politics, and the Death Penalty: Comparing Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan." Comparative Politics 44 (1, 2011): 41-58. - "Say no to plea bargaining." The Japan Times, accessed March 03, 2016, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/01/editorials/say-plea-bargaining/#.VvXIzUfvZ_C.---Media: - Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED) anime and manga - One Punch Man---Audio: - Long Note Two, by Chris Zabriskie - "I have to save her", ERASED soundtrack
Hourou Musuko and Love Pause and Select 2016-03-10 | Out of the oven and into the frying pan!Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - I had to read A LOT of stuff on this topic, cause trans literature is not something I'm very familiar with. If you are familiar with the literature and there's something I misquoted or misspoke, please feel free to tell me! - Before anyone gets to me, I used 'her' for Shuichi at moments because that's the gender Shuichi dominantly identifies as - You should check out the manga - there's a lot of references in the anime of the manga's first major arc, which recontextualizes a lot of the characters in specific lights - Great anime, highly recommended! Fantastic editing style - I know that Suite Bergamasque is a suite and not technically a 'song', but by the time I recorded and found myself saying that, I was already video editing, so my sincerest apologies! - For full context, Verlaine's famous poem:Your soul is a chosen landscapeWhere charming masqueraders and bergamaskers goPlaying the lute and dancing and almostSad beneath their fanciful disguises.All sing in a minor keyOf victorious love and the opportune life,They do not seem to believe in their happinessAnd their song mingles with the moonlight,With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful,That sets the birds dreaming in the treesAnd the fountains sobbing in ecstasy,The tall slender fountains among marble statues.---Text: - "Bergamask." Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/Bergamask - hahnl. "Gabriel Faure's Style: 'Clair de Lune' as a Link between Romanticism and Impressionism." Music 242, 2014, https://pages.stolaf.edu/music242-spr... - "Fate/Zero Director Aoki Ei One-on-One Interview." Comptiq 2012, http://tsukikan.com/misc/fate-zero-di.... - Mackie, Vera C. "Necktie nightmare: narrating gender in contemporary Japan." Humanities Research XVI (1), 2010: 111-128. - McLelland, Mark J. "'How to Sex'? The Contested Nature of Sexuality in Japan." The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies (2015): 194-209. - McLelland, Mark J. "From the stage to the clinic: changing transgender identities in post-war Japan." Routledge (2004): 1-20. - McLelland, Mark J. "Western Intersection, Eastern Approximations." Haworth Press (2003): 203-230. - McLelland, Mark J. "Japan's Queer Cultures." Routledge (2011): 140-149. - McLelland, Mark J. "Japan's Queer Cultures." Routledge (2011): 140-149. - "Onnagata." Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onnagata - Peterson, Britt. "Japan's Trans-Friendly Comic Book Revolution." Foreign Policy (2015), http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/30/m... - Schinz, Albert. "Literary Symbolism in France." PMLA 18 (2), 1903: 273-307. - "Suite Bergamasque." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/Suite_bergam...---Media - Hourou Musuko---Audio - Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy - Gymnopedie No. 1 by Erik Satie, played by Kevin MacLeod - Itsu Datte by Legenda BR
The Temporal Messages of Metropolis Pause and Select 2016-01-21 | Great movie, great manga, great movie!Discord (Not Mine): discord.gg/fourplateausTwitter: twitter.com/pauseandselectPatreon: patreon.com/pauseandselectKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pauseandselect---Stray Notes: - You may remember Rock from Moony Man and Detective Boy Rock Holmes - A big fan of Lang's 1927 Metropolis is Joseph Goebbels - Tima survives, which is a great ending card, but also firmly de-legitimizes her power base! - Fifi is from both Tezuka's and Rintaro's Metropolis - Fifi is the robot in the lair, while in the movie Fifi is the robot that gives Kenichi Tima's heart - For those of you curious as to what exactly influenced Hitchcock, it's the Schufftan process, which I've linked below - If you're interested in another interpretation of Metropolis, you might find William Benzon's "The Song at the End of the World: Personal Apocalypse in Rintaro's Metropolis" a fascinating read - Benzon focuses on Rintaro's choice music, and briefly describes how it places family matters in the foregroundText: - McVeigh, Brian. Postwar Japan's "Hard" and "Soft Nationalism", JPRI 73 (2001), http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp73.html - Nae Hauf-Way Hoose. 地震, http://naehauf-wayhoose.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html - Yoshiwara, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiwara - The Tower of Babel (Brueghel), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_of_Babel_(Bruegel) - Martin. Anime UK News, http://www.animeuknews.net/anime.php?id=833 - Snider, Drew. What's the Big Deal?: Metropolis (1927), http://www.film.com/movies/whats-the-big-deal-metropolis-1927 - NPR. An Anime Metropolis, http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jan/metropolis/020124.metropolis.html - Yasar, Kerim. Japanese Visions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2343 - Bordwell, David. Metropolis Unbound, http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2010/04/05/metropolis-unbound - Bird, Lawrence. Dialectical Imaginaries: forms of life, forms of fascism in the Metropolis of film, manga and anime, Critical Planning (2012): 38-54 - Bird, Lawrence. States of Emergency: Urban Space and the Robotic Body in the Metropolis Tales, Mechademia 3 (2008): 127-148. - Eagan, Daniel. Mad 'Metropolis', Film Journal International (2001): 68. - The Influence of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' on Future Films, sjfilmhistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/774 - Hutchinson, Pamela. Future-proof: How Metropolis still inspires fashion, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2012/feb/27/metropolis-inspires-the-fashion-world - Szirmai, Adam. The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development: An Introduction, Cambridge Press, 2005. - Knack, Steve. Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence, Public Choice 87 (1996): 207-228Media: - Metropolis (1927) - Metropolis (1949) - Metropolis (2001) - World War 2 Pacific Theater Public Domain stock footageMusic: - I can't stop loving you by Ray Charles - Colossus - Wonders by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100358Artist: http://incompetech.com - Bet on It by Silent Partner - With a Stamp by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org
