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August 11, 2017
April 10, 2018
A paraphrase from the first Gundam:
"Newtype? What's a newtype?"
The "newtype" idea is much
"A little like espers, like A.E. van Vogt's Slans;
people with good intuition." or like the Marvel "X-Men"
scenario.
Some Japanese otaku latched BRAND_X
on to the idea of "being a
newtype" in much the same THE_SECRET_MASTERS_OF_DESTINY
way that American SF fans
ones latched onto the idea With the X-Men, though, the
of "being a slan". mutations tremendously varied,
and always beneficial as well
"Newtype" as implausibly common.
magazine
started With "New Types" (and Slans)
publication there seems to be one single
There's a bit in in 1985. beneficial mutation that's
the anime "Sket making the rounds.
Dance":
SKET_DANCE
Switch askes his otaku friend
about the occult fanatic
"spooky girl" character.
The otaku comments that he feels
a certain amount of affinity for
that girl, commenting that "we
are both new types" though
they're in different fields.
I think there's an echo of this in the
name that Viz Media selected for it's
theater/retail establishment in SF's
japantown:
NEW_PEOPLE
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