I'm trying to finish up my Sheffield annotated translation - the first half of the first essay in Miyazaki Hayao's book 出発点 (Shuppatsuten or Starting Points). In it he speculates on why anime is so popular among 12-15 year olds. I decided to have a look online to see if I could find anything to say if that was still the case or not...
... and came across a whole load of people who are taking it all way too seriously. I love the stuff, but the idea of being 'a social scientist specializing in otaku studies' or my 'research interest' being 'the English-language "boy's love" manga's [sic] online fan community' is a bit much.
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