Asian visual culture

Modern Japanese visual culture-Otaku culture Here, I show some interesting materials I mentioned in my final research and some interesting things about Otaku. 1.  The movie: Train man Friedman, Alisa. 2009. " Train Man and the Gender Politics of Japanese 'Otaku' Culture: The Rise of New Media, Nerd Heroes and Consumer Communities "  http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue20/freedman.htm It is an interesting movie, even I used it to introduce otaku, as a matter of fact, it is a love story which is pretty beautiful and warm, and its theme also includes redemption and relationship, so I highly recommended you guys to watch it. Anime:    干物妹 うまるちゃん !(Himouto! Umaru-chan) Oh, when I talked about this anime, I always can ’ t press down my enthusiasm in my heart. To be honest, it is one of my favorite anime. Yes, I love it!!!!!!! For sure, this anime is well to present a huge amount of 二次元 fans to hide their hobby in front of social public. ...

last Thursday, our Korea teacher Mrs. Klocko come to our class and show the traditional Korea culture for us. She played traditional Korea drum for us, which is really impressed me a lot. It is not like big drum in China, the drum in Korea is much smaller and seem like more elegant. Klocko played the drum rhythmic and the rhythm made me addicted to this music. After her wonderful show, she let some of us try to go to the front and play the drum, it is pretty fun.

  Recently, I'm doing a reseah on Japanese sub-culture: LOLITA, which could be regarded as cute culture. However, LOLITA also cannot be accepted by the whole public like "Yakuza" and "Bosazoku" in Japan. As Japan's global pop-cultural influence began to rise in the 1990s with the spread of Japanese animation, comic books and video games, Japanese youth cultures in the form of subcultural expressions began to capture international attention. Fashion, or more precisely a visual expression of one's identity, has become a dominant vehicle of self-expression and activity for many young people in Japan. One of the most popular objects of both media and scholarly analyses outside Japan has been the youth culture known as Lolita, which is characterised by dressing in Victorian and Rococo-inspired fashions and affecting a 'princess-like' demeanour. This subcultural style is a fashion-based youth culture of young women who draw their aesthetics from the st...

  As I said before, I'm an absolute fan of Japanese animation, and my dream is becoming an animation makers one day. In my opinion, The biggest different point between Japanese anime and cartoon is their aim. Japanese anime culture is one kind of subculture, it contains a lot of interesting things like Japanese traditional culture and modern phenomenon to show how Japanese think about their life and world. And anime also will narrate a magic world and magical story to explain some complex principle. I'll show some anime I love below and show some photos of my collections 1. 花咲くいろは it is a story about a girl called Ohana Matsumae, a 16-year-old living in Tokyo, who is left in the care of her estranged grandmother, following her mother's elopement with her boyfriend. Ohana arrives at her grandmother's country estate to realize she is the owner of a Taishō period hot spring inn called Kissuisō. She begins working at Kissuisō at her grandmother's request, but fi...