{"id":13451,"date":"2008-09-12T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13451"},"modified":"2008-09-12T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T15:10:04","slug":"msnbc-discusses-sexuality-among-otaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/msnbc-discusses-sexuality-among-otaku\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Discusses Sexuality Among Otaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/msnbc-discusses-sexuality-among-otaku.jpg\" alt=\"MSNBC Discusses Sexuality Among Otaku\" title=\"MSNBC Discusses Sexuality Among Otaku\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Journalist Brian Alexander has composed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26639577\/\" target=\"_blank\">provocative introduction<\/a> to issues of sexuality within the Japanese and American anime\/manga fan community for MSNBC. The article takes an open-minded yet obviously &#8220;outsider&#8221; approach to the subject that seems transitional between traditional American misunderstanding of the otaku subculture and recognition of the movement&#8217;s post-modern ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Otaku USA magazine editor-in-chief Patrick Macias, who is quoted in Alexander&#8217;s article, reports on his <a href=\"http:\/\/patrickmacias.blogs.com\/er\/2008\/09\/shofukucho-lock.html\" target=\"_blank\">personal page<\/a> that his remarks have been misquoted in the article.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2008-09-12\/msnbc-reports-on-sex-in-otaku-culture\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Brian Alexander has composed a provocative introduction to issues of sexuality within the Japanese and American anime\/manga fan community for MSNBC. The article takes an open-minded yet obviously &#8220;outsider&#8221; approach to the subject that seems transitional between traditional American misunderstanding of the otaku subculture and recognition of the movement&#8217;s post-modern ideology. Otaku USA magazine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}