Mythology
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A Reader Responds to Persona 5: Gaming as a Rite and Site of Passage (New Series on Meta-Psychology, Social Cognition, and Individuation)
Academia, artificial intelligence, artificual intelligence, asian studies, augmented reality, comparative literature, Culture, digital communities, east asian studies, fairytale, festival, film studies, folklore, folkloresque, folklorist, game based learning, game studies, gaming, Graduate Research, graduate school, instructional design, interactive fiction, japanese cinema, japanese video games, japanese videogames, jrpg, literary fiction, Ludology, media studies, narrative design, psychology, religious studies, spiritual, spirituality, storytelling, stream-of-consciousness, user research, videogames, virtual realitycognition, demons, fandom, fans, fantasy, film studies, folklore, game design, game dev, game studies, game writing, human cognition, individuation, interactive fiction, japanese, meta verse, mythic, Mythology, narrative design, narrative designer, persona, persona 5, persona 5 royal, psychology, religion, rite of passage, screenplay, script, spirituality, storytelling, video game studies, virtual reality
In Persona 5, the main characters are a group of high school students who discover that they possess the power to enter a parallel world called the “Metaverse,” where they can confront and overcome the distorted desires of adults. Through their experiences in the Metaverse, the characters undergo a process of individuation, which is the…
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What do Michael Foucault and Avatar: The Last Airbender have in common? Me! Doing media studies, thinking about it too much, and ontological linguistics. What am I even talking about? Join in the discussion to find out. #mediastudies #fandom #philosophy
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Ah, you wish to hear a tale of the wily fox, do you? A creature of cunning and guile, who outwits all those who dare to cross its path? Very well, I shall tell it to you. There was once a group of travelers who found themselves lost in the dense, dark forest on a…
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FLCL Retrospective: The Hero’s (Horny) Journey
anime, anthropology, Art, book review, comparative literature, critical analysis, critical theory, culture, fable, fairytale, film studies, film theory, FLCL, folklore, Gux, hero’s journey, japanese, japanese literature, Joseph Campbell, literary analysis, literary studies, lore, manga, media critic, media studies, media theory, myth, Mythology, pop culture, pop culture studies, review, storytelling, surrealism, television, tropes, ui, urban legend, UxFLCL, oh gimme that foo-ri coo-ri. The early 2000’s found me sneaking into my mom’s tv room to catch Adult Swim’s broadcast of a bizarre six-episode… what I would call event, about yet another boy caught up in mecha-madness. Now, before I managed to write this off as some offbrand random wannabe EVA, I found…
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Travels and Travails in Translation – Aesop’s Fables from Greek to Japanese to English
Peacock and Crane クジャク が ツル を バカ に して、はね の いろ を けなしました。 「わたし は きんいろ の はね で、こんな に きれい だけれど、 あなた と きたら つばさ の どこ を みて も きれいな いろ が ぜんぜん ないわね」 すると ツル は、 「でも わたし は、そら の たかい ところ まで とんで いけるのよ。 あなた なんか ニワトリ と おなじ で、じめん…
Nicholas Andriani Rankin, the Wandering Scholar 