Tag: otakusphere

Our Future: オタク圏3

Posted by Ryan A - December 6, 08

In this final addition, I want to stress the solutions or actions we may take in order to build a future for the otakusphere, in order to not simply let it idle+die, confined to a very small subset of the internet, and still less attractive to the mainstream of fans. Briefly, it comes down to our stimulation, our lineage, and our unified spectrum, or how we appear externally.

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Our Future: オタク圏 2

Posted by Ryan A - November 25, 08

In the previous post, I outlined very general aspects which I see playing in the anime-blogosphere, and followed with a hypothetical question, “What if the top 5 single-author blogs suddenly phased out?” in terms of readership distribution. Ultimately, I believe team-blogs have an advantage for both authors and readers, yet it is not absolute.

Before expressing my support to lelangir’s post about the questioning of a blogomerate centralized otakusphere, I would like to express some general grouping of blogs in state and genre1 in open-classification (feel free to correct or modify me ね).

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Our Future: オタク圏 1

Posted by Ryan A - November 20, 08

champloo

Perhaps I shan’t be the one to call the draw, but has anyone noticed the author rollback this year? Want me to yield good examples: Lawson and Garten… to blissmo and those Yukaners (glad it wasn’t a cult bunny.. well you know).

These matters cannot be helped, but it does grind the grade of the otakusphere.

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