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Monday, October 2, 2006

Oh god.
http://www.theotaku.com/news/view/upcoming_eva_tome_needs_help_from_fans/1823/

Here we go.

Ah, hell, maybe I shouldn't bother. I've pretty much had to scrap the Black Lagoon article, I've got schoolwork to do, and the articles I wrote previously didn't seem to have any impact at all after the first week or so. Not to mention the fact that what Eva's doing is still so far beyond me that I doubt I could do justice to it without seriously digging deep.

But I think I have to try, anyways - I may not get another opportunity. There has to be more to studying anime than mere "aesthetics" on the one hand or "cultural study"* on the other. Anime, if its present state means anything to us, must be questionable in terms much more fundamental... not in spite of its being a novelty, but in many ways because of it, which is something I'm only now beginning to understand (cf what I said about "entertainment" in the Saikano article).

First issue: how the hell do I keep an article on Eva down to 20 pages while still being honest with the material? Second issue: How do I introduce the kind of thinking Eva is doing without immediately becoming overwhelmed (in other words: where do I start)?


*if I recall correctly, Brian Ruh (the Anime Research guy) actually studied under Susan Napier, so there's probably going to be a lot of the latter.
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