Remaing Yamato And SF Anime By Baryon Tensor Posadas

2. In “Remaing Yamato, Remaking Japan: Space Battleship Yamato and SF Anime” by Baryon Tensor Posadas, I am going to focus on the fetishization of anime and Techno-Orientalism characterized in the article. The transition from non-national to national qualities of anime in the age of globalization generated significant tension. Initially, when Japanese anime was imported into foreign markets from 1970s to 1980s, the ethnic quality was perceived as “too Japanese” to the subject – the Western or American anime viewers. For example, Japanese names of characters or the titles of anime were perceived as too foreign by westerners: “analyses of anime typically read its visual and cultural practices as something culturally other.” In some occasion, these changes are made in order to avoid controversial matters, especially when the purely translated words have a varying meaning …show more content…
A notion that Japan is post-modern and is always, under any circumstances, supposed to be modern caused a diffusion of subjectivity, particularly since Japan defied western epistemology: “national-cultural idiosyncrasy that subscribes a conception of the world based on a binary between Western modernity and an always-already postmodern Japan.” According to the West, Japan has diverted the definition of modern subject: representing mind, and embodied transparent neutral transcendental objective that finds him/herself in gender specific role solely responsible for making up narrative for others. Modern subjects were never established in Japan, with Japanese subjects perceived to be constantly loose, flexible, confusing, ambiguous, and reproducible. Asia was considered synonymous with the image of an authoritarian culture lacking in emotional connection, cold, impersonal, and machine-like. Japanese was embodied in liminal quality with not even considered greater than that of robots, but equated with