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Almost done! I finished two papers and took my Japanese final in...about a 14-hour span. I was a little proud of myself. I didn't sleep, but that happens sometimes. I have one paper left, due on Sunday. It's the most important one, because it determines whether or not I get my capstone and my major and my diploma, but it's also a history paper. I can do a sixteen page history paper in 1.5 days easily. *knocks on wood*
I promised myself years ago that I would write a paper on the destruction of Tokyo, and that's this paper. Godzilla, Akira, and Woman in the Dunes, I think. Okay, so nothing actually happens to Tokyo in Dunes, but I decided my thesis would explore the way people negotiate their place in Tokyo so it can have a smidgen of legitimacy. I thought about Eva, but I only have so many pages, and I'll need to reserve a few pages to talk about utopian/dystopian thought, since that's the actual point of my class. But, then on to: Tokyo Smash! *glee* They can't stop me from graduating. It's a good feeling.
Super quick book rec: Maeda Ai, Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. It's heavy reading, but the man is a genious. I haven't finished reading it myself, because his main focus is on the Meiji period, and I decided to limit my paper to Post-War Tokyo, but I'm looking forward to picking it back up after I turn in my last paper and sleep for a week.
Also, Susan Napier's Anime From Akira to Howl's Moving Castle is also a good read. And readable. I wish more academics were good writers.
I promised myself years ago that I would write a paper on the destruction of Tokyo, and that's this paper. Godzilla, Akira, and Woman in the Dunes, I think. Okay, so nothing actually happens to Tokyo in Dunes, but I decided my thesis would explore the way people negotiate their place in Tokyo so it can have a smidgen of legitimacy. I thought about Eva, but I only have so many pages, and I'll need to reserve a few pages to talk about utopian/dystopian thought, since that's the actual point of my class. But, then on to: Tokyo Smash! *glee* They can't stop me from graduating. It's a good feeling.
Super quick book rec: Maeda Ai, Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. It's heavy reading, but the man is a genious. I haven't finished reading it myself, because his main focus is on the Meiji period, and I decided to limit my paper to Post-War Tokyo, but I'm looking forward to picking it back up after I turn in my last paper and sleep for a week.
Also, Susan Napier's Anime From Akira to Howl's Moving Castle is also a good read. And readable. I wish more academics were good writers.