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5 pages in and we are already citing Socrates in a Harry Potter biography 🛏

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Only 12 pages in and already a trans icon

Really cannot find anything to appreciate here but have to read it either way to torment my pupils

first time I've read someone talk about their throbbing 🐓 over 10 pages

still waiting for the big sad

"F*ck me, twist my nipples and call me Horst", Elend thought, gleams of stress-induced water pearls running from his forehead, "this situation is very dire and poopy. I am at a loss for words and don't know what to do. I would REALLY need X, but it is hopeless".
"Woah", said Vin, breathing heavily. "Elend - look here! X! We found X! How fitting that we found X right in the moment we needed it!".

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Ok. Came to the aproppriation chapter. God bless.

While I'm enjoying my stay on a strictly analytical level, I find it interesting to note that the author, when referring to online slang, oftem makes the notion that it originates from AAVE, but never that it was appropriated by people not part of that community, only stating that it was "borrowed". A clever but sadly disappointing way to avoid having to take a stance on stealing linguistic identity

Spirited Away's "No-Face" is not a god as depicted in this book - it is a spirit mirroring society's greed

transsexual person and not transgender? Noted

Often, characters' names and movie titles appear to be thrown around with no real motive. The book seems to be both in-depth and rather superficial at the same time. It is written that e.g. Kiki helps her friends with magical powers...being what? She doesn't have any, besides riding her broom. That is what makes the movie so enticig. Almost looks like some passages were written with AI

Luffy eats "the demon fruit"? Nothing said of the Marines?

Also, many formal aspects of the paragraphs are confusing, where things could have been kept shorter or cut entirely, so that disconnected ideas don't get intertwined. Another thought: I wonder if said book, as it is supposed to look at Anime 'through the looking glass', will hint at misogyny, sexualization, infantilization, as well as live-adaptations and its problems, as well as the fetishisation of German culture

To me, while many interesting and in-depth observations are made, a major problem lies in the formal editing of the book. Making sub-points when there is no need to (there is, strictly academically speaking, no logical need to have a point 3.2.1 if there is no 3.2.2 as an argument that follows said sub-point or creates a juxtaposition), throwing around mythical references with no connection or explanation..

Paved like a module paper, the book leans into dissecting overarching topoi (apocalypse now - through the looking glass - life now), instead of focusing on separate works worth to be discussed - a welcomed change from different angles. However, in its paragraphs, Anime names are lumped together without a clear distinction, which sometimes makes it harder to digest what follows and not lose one's thread

let's see if this is a 1:1 copy of every book about the history of anime i've ever read