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Title in Japanese: 日本(人)のアイデンティティと美意識の境界におけるゆるキャラと人類とその境界線の不思議な不安定感 Japan has become overrun by friendly critters: (typically)soft, furry mascot-suited characters known as yuru kyara (wobbly mascot characters)or gotôchi kyara (local... more
This article compares contemporary Japanese entities known as kyara ("characters") with historical anthropomorphized imagery considered to be spiritual or religious. Yuru kyara ("loose" or "wobbly"... more
The recent boom in cute characters (kyara) has permeated Japanese popular aesthetics to the extent that character-shaped foods have displaced the former emphasis on recreating natural objects in bento (packed lunches) created for... more
This thesis examines a Japanese children's fantasy story, An-Pan Man. an animated television cartoon. The cartoon employs stereotypical characterizations that are a) defined by language use, especially politeness markers encoded in... more
Japan has become overrun by friendly critters: (typically) soft, furry mascot-suited characters known as yuru kyara, or gotochi kyara, who exist in order to make their locality or sponsoring agency beloved and famous. Of special interest... more
(the download is the introduction to the book in which my chapter appears; its abstract follows) Contemporary Japan is overrun with lovable animated characters (kyara), from globalized Hello Kitty to obscure Gin-Maru Kun, the ginkgo nut... more
Title in Japanese: 日本(人)のアイデンティティと美意識の境界におけるゆるキャラと人類とその境界線の不思議な不安定感 Japan has become overrun by friendly critters: (typically)soft, furry mascot-suited characters known as yuru kyara (wobbly mascot characters)or gotôchi kyara (local... more
In the age of the “transmediagesamtkunstwerk” – that is, a “total work of art” in which we no longer have one single work that concentrates a variety of media, but rather a work that finds expression through multiple media – the concept... more
This introduction to the topic of character recontextualization sets out to address a variety of character products that cannot be adequately described as ›narrative‹: Coffee mugs, clothes, office supplies, and other material objects.... more
"Japan is famous for its manga tradition, said to form a large part of the Cool Japan image promulgated globally as a lauded aspect of soft power. Yet an important contemporary part of this tradition that reflects domestic aesthetics... more
Im Zentrum des Beitrags steht die Konturierung eines spezifischen Fi-gurenbegriffs aus dem japanologischen Diskurs, der in weiten Medienbereichen zur Anwendung kommen kann, welche als prä-oder non-narrativ einzustufen wären. Als kyara,... more
Seit etwa der Jahrtausendwende wird Japan ein Aufstieg zur „Figuren-Supermacht“ nachgesagt. Dadurch werden kyaras zunehmend als kulturphilosophisches Problem betrachtet, das die japanische Bevölkerung in allen Gesellschaftsbereichen... more
The Winter School “De/Recontextualizing Characters” proposes taking a closer look at a variety of transmedia ‘characters’ (or rather: of their utilization) which cannot be accounted for if they are primarily understood through the ‘lens’... more
In der Pariser Metro tritt seit 1977 ›Serge le Lapin‹ auf, ein pinkfarbener Hase in ikonischem gelben Outfit, der auf Hinweisschildern ›stellvertretend‹ für unachtsame Reisende in schließenden Zugtüren eingeklemmt wird. Seit 1993 kommt... more
The Winter School “De/Recontextualizing Characters” intends to investigate from an intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective: What medial (material, institutional, and semiotic) affordances and constraints are relevant or even... more
Im Zentrum des Beitrags steht die Konturierung eines spezifischen Figurenbegriffs aus dem japanologischen Diskurs, der in weiten Medienbereichen zur Anwendung kommen kann, welche als prä-oder non-narrativ einzustufen wären. Als kyara,... more
Imagery of natural phenomena has been deliberately used in Japan in aesthetic representations for humans and social relations, at least since the introduction of Chinese poetry, Buddhism, and the writing system (ca. 7th c.) and into the... more