2020
DOI: 10.1080/2201473x.2020.1801274
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The Japanese settler unconscious: Goblin Slayer on the ‘Isekai’ frontier

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“…As Gottesman has shown, the anime Goblin Slayer -although not an isekai per se -serves not simply as an entertainment tool, but rather, also encompasses a wide array of topics and concerns. 16 First, this anime "demands a high amount of media literacy from its audience, not only on the presumption that one is familiar with the character references across games and anime but [also] that one is literate in the 'deconstruction, parody and pastiche' required to participate in internet meme culture." 17 Second, and even more noteworthy, Goblin Slayer functions as a mediation tool to justify Japanese colonialism, presenting and relativizing racism as well as sexual aggression.…”
Section: Isekai Animementioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Gottesman has shown, the anime Goblin Slayer -although not an isekai per se -serves not simply as an entertainment tool, but rather, also encompasses a wide array of topics and concerns. 16 First, this anime "demands a high amount of media literacy from its audience, not only on the presumption that one is familiar with the character references across games and anime but [also] that one is literate in the 'deconstruction, parody and pastiche' required to participate in internet meme culture." 17 Second, and even more noteworthy, Goblin Slayer functions as a mediation tool to justify Japanese colonialism, presenting and relativizing racism as well as sexual aggression.…”
Section: Isekai Animementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This Batman with katana, bat shaped shurikens, and gigantic robot fights feels more animesque since the narrative plausability tool is through the adoption of isekai genre. This genre, as implied by Gottesman (2020), revolves around a character being drifted into a different world. Though isekai is adopted to trigger a more animesque nuance, in delivering the isekai, Batman Ninja remains faithful to technological incident trope from which Batman is drifted to an alternate Japan.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%