Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty-Three

Attention all Laser Disc and Old Magazine Otaku! Here is the complete audio of my lecture last week as delivered at California State University at Monterey Bay. While some of this territory was covered before in my speech earlier this year at Temple University Japan Campus, there’s a lot of new stuff here (including sections on American fandom and Hating the Otaku Wave) in this one hour-long recording.

Disclaimer: this lecture is not really about The Drifting Classroom manga...

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Comments

[twitter.com/personasama]

That was a great lecture! I'd love to see the slides that accompanied it, if you could put them up.

I thought the ending point was interesting too and a good way to provoke thought and discussion about the future of anime and how it'll change as different world cultures take it and adapt it to their own needs.

One thought though: at one point you quote someone who thought otaku culture can only pop up in a society without war - what about anime fans in Iraq? It'd be interesting to see what kind of culture they have, or whether it's mostly behind closed doors and across the internet, like the early days of Japanese otaku culture.

[DVC]

Solid presentation, Patrick. Wish I could've been there for it!