Any academic articles on anime?

SuicideMaster_ said:

"Computational fluid dynamics, ANSYS, drag coefficient, human aerodynamics, SST k-ω model, anime, Quetzalcoatl, titties, thicc"

Tirinchas said:
You can search http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ or any of its mirrors for "anime", "japanese animation" etc., there are a bunch of titles of every kind.

Lolsebca said:
@Pullman
Any way you can get those you want?
Since they're sometimes .pdf, perhaps you can have them shared through Google Drive?

Otaku/DatabaseAnimals said:
The term “postmodern” will be used repeatedly throughout this work. However, due to limitations of space I have refrained from conducting a lengthy explanation of the term. I leave the definition of postmodernity to the numerous introductory books on the subject and hope, moreover, that those interested may refer to a theoretical piece about postmodernity on which I am currently working.15 Of course, I will incorporate an explanation of the concepts to the extent necessary for the following discussion to flow without referring back to such texts. Here I ask merely that you briefly note that when I refer to postmodernity, I am speaking of the period since the 1960s or 1970s, or in terms of Japanese history, the period marked by the era following the Osaka International Expo in 1970—in other words, “the cultural world since the 1970s.”

Otaku/DatabaseAnimals said:
Instead, the core of a work lies in the database of settings. Therefore, in the mind of the otaku, even if derivative works violate original works (at the level of the simulacra), the originality of the original works as information (at the level of the database) is protected and respected. Rather it is thought that, from the standpoint of authors of the derivative works, the increase of simulacra should raise the value of the originals. Of course, in reality the existence of the copyright should preclude such sensibility. However, more than a quarter century after the birth of the Comic Market, it is important to know the background of such psychology

Yudina said:
If you want to get your feet wet, then I'd recommend looking up Mechademia, which was a magazine dedicated to publishing writers related to Japanese pop culture at the University of Minnesota, and Beautiful Fighting Girl by Tamaki Saito. I have issues with Saito, especially with some of the bullshit he spouts elsewhere, but I think BFG itself is fine.

Pullman said:
Hiroki Azuma's "Database Animals" is, as far as I know, the standard literature recommendation for an academic analysis of the anime fandom in the larger context of postmodern Japan.

katsucats said:
Simulacra is just the idea that something is a copy of an original that transcends being a copy of the original, into its own proper thing. Baudrillard uses a rather strange example of a 1:1 map of a nation that persists long after the destruction of the nation itself. In the context of anime, it's not that complicated. The idea is that media draw inspiration from other media and create copies that become more popular than the original, and this is especially true in anime where copies are given new life through fanfics, etc.

Otaku said:
This prominence of derivative works is considered a postmodern characteristic because the high value otaku place on such products is extremely close to the future of the culture industry as envisioned by French sociologist Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard predicts that in postmodern society the distinction between original products and commodities and their copies weakens, while an interim form called the simulacrum, which is neither original nor copy, becomes dominant. The discernment of value by otaku, who consume the original and the parody with equal vigor, certainly seems to move at the level of simulacra where there are no originals and no copies.

Yudina said: