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Patrick W. Galbraith

The Ethics of Affect

Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood

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Based on ongoing fieldwork in the Akihabara neighborhood of Tokyo, specifically a targeted subproject from 2014 to 2015, this book explores how and to what effect lines are drawn by producers, players and critics of bishojo games. Focusing on interactions with manga/anime-style characters, these adult computer games often feature explicit sex acts. Noting that the bishojo, or cute girl characters, in these games can appear quite young, legal actions have been taken in a number of countries to categorize and prohibit the content as child abuse material. In response to the risk of manga/anime images encouraging underage sexualization, lawmakers… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-91-7635-159-8
  • EAN: 9789176351598
  • Produktnummer: 37554608
  • Verlag: Stockholm University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 360 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.3 cm 810 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 810

Über den Autor


Patrick W. Galbraith is an Associate Professor in the School of International Communication at Senshu University in Tokyo. His recent publications include Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan (Duke University Press, 2019), AKB48 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1085-4558

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