ANews Podcast 277 – 8.26.22

ANews Podcast 277 – 8.26.22

From ANews Podcast

Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.

Notes:

What’s New 

AKA chisel’s final/up-her-butt thoughts

w/ sock-puppet 

Anews gets canceled because of lolicore

Music selection by Max Res

TOTW: Anime

w/ special guest Bruno, Max Res, & octox

sound editing by octox

Music & Samples: 

“Power of God and Anime” meme

Yoko Takahashi – A Cruel Angel’s Thesis (Director’s Edit Version) 

“Nani??” meme

Usada Pekora – [ARK] Honkaku Shidou !!!!!!!!!!peko! [Hololive / Usada Pekora]
travongle – shockingly naive!
watering – osu player overdoses on drugs and chokes on his own spit
dev – wont you please love me
Laplus Darkness – Rouge no Dengon (cover)
Nausicaa OST – Requiem
Anno Hideaki is impressed by how Miyazaki animates breasts – Nausicaa official commentary
Akai Haato – HAACHAMA HORROR SONG
Hyakumantenbara Salome gets scared by a ladder in Resident Evil Village – [OBio8] BIOHAZARD VILLAGE✦ wo Playitashimasu wa! ✦11 [Omura desu wa] 

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More like Topic of the Weeb, amirite?
NGL that whole conversation was dodgy af.

- to the « harsh critic of otakus » : I mostly agree with the criticism, as this mostly reflects my own experience of an otaku/D&D subculture.

There’s a major difference betwee otakus and sports fans that is super relevant tho : the fantasies and spectacle being worshipped by otakus/gamers got at least a level of personal or social meaning to them, where the only significant thing uniting sports fans is geography… which is in itself devoid of meaning. There are a few exceptions of politicized football teams, like the more antifacist-leaning San Pauli, FC Manchester, Minsk’s CIPO-RFM, etc, so to a minor degree sports team CAN become something of more social significance yet they’re still devoid of any personal character. This is not the same with the « Greek gods cult » of otakus, where some idols, characters, stories, aeesthetics are chosen by fans among a wide variety of products accordingly to how it connects with their own sensibilities, in some way.

But I get the sheer lack of critical personal distanciation that most otakus have… like I knew a young femal otaku who was deep into Kingdom Hearts, which is like some gross, pretty obvious attempt by Disney at merging with Japanese anime world. She didn’t seem to have a iota of self-criticism about it, as something within this imaginary realms was holding her sensiilities attached to the franchise. This can be extrapolated to all otakus, maybe. But void of meaning… no. There’s definitely narrative and personal identification patterns going on here, that’s relevant to look into, from a more COUNTER-cultural perspective.

- to Bruno & co: otaku has never been a counterculture; always a subculture deriving, though in some « negative » way, from the mainstream. That’s what partly makes it of interest, perhaps, to anarchists as there appears to be an element of identity affirmation and as well a level of social contestation you totally don’t have (as said above) i many other subcultures like sports fans, who’re really just normies seeking MORE community, though without much attached personal meaning.

- at the otaku con event I once came across a bunch of anarchistic comic book producers holding a table outside, in front of the building where the event took place, so to attract the hordes of otakus. That was inherently an anarchistic distro… their comics were filled with anticiv nihilism, the best I’ve seen since ‘80s/’90s punk distros. Plus it was colored and pretty well-drawn.

So someones thought about it before me? I guess.

With the right approach? Who knows? A laudable initiative, still.

Just hoping that it worked with actual otakus, not just a non-otaku like me buying a few of their stuff.

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