Articles
List all articles in reverse chronological order. The most recent appear first.
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Shōtengai as Part of the Everyday: Starting from Tamako Market
Starting from Tamako Market, this essay explores the shōtengai as a spatial form of the everyday—tracing its historical development, institutional structure, and narrative role as a boundary between ordinary and extraordinary life in anime.
autograph • cultural-context • structural-context
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dAIa-log 004: Shibuya in Anime — Why an Unfinished City Feels Like a Narrative Core
Exploring how Shibuya’s unfinished cityscape comes to function as a narrative core in anime, through works like Jujutsu Kaisen, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, Oshi no Ko, and Hi Score Girl.
dAIa-log • structural-context • narrative-style
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Is Frieren a "Loli-Babaa"? — Rethinking the Term and Its Boundaries
Reexamining the term “loli-babaa” through Frieren, this essay explores how age, appearance, and character coding shape its meaning within Japanese character culture.
co-laborAItion • cultural-context • media-form
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“Osorezan Le Voile”: How Fan Creation Completed Shaman King
Tracing how Kapitaro’s “Osorezan Le Voile” grew from Nico Nico and Vocaloid-era fan creation into *Shaman King*’s most definitive anime ending—through Reiwa remakes, Japanese era-name intuition, and a thought on what generative AI can’t replicate.
autograph • fan-creation • anime-history