Tag Archive for Pokemon

Consumerism and the Endurance of Pokemon

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Pokemon is inescapable. Pikachu has become one of the most recognizable characters the world over, and is even speculated to be able to surpass the current king, Mickey Mouse.1 The franchise, initially starting out as an understated title on the original Game Boy, has grown to include seventeen feature films with one soon to release,…

Fangirl

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So I recently read a book called Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell and it got me thinking. The book was about a fanfiction writer whom escaped the reality she didn’t want to face through the world of writing about her favorite characters in a series that she liked. It was placed in her first year of…

A Pokemon is You!

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Allison’s book provided a lot of nice detail, theory, and research regarding a topic I’ve been both actively and passively exposed to over the years. Naturally, being a Japan studies guy, I have a lot of experience with many of the ideas of Japan’s post-war economic and cultural transformation(s). On top of that I have…

Millennial Monsters

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I’d like to start off by saying I like Digimon Tamers quite a bit, because what better metaphor for capitalism being terrible is there than “Internet Cthulhu wants all of your trading cards”?

BotRT March Prompt “Extended Play”

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This BotRT prompt was interesting to read and think about to say the least. When I think of extended play I do not think of the game colliding into reality but more of a slow and subtle merge between fantasy and reality. Because of this subtleness it is harder to spot the merge, an example…