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SANKAKU

                                             April 08, 2012

The web site "The Sankaku
Complex" serves up news and                     Is that supposed to
(soft-core) imagery along the                   sound like "Standalone
general lines of what I call                    Complex"?
"otaku fodder", justifying it's
name ("sankaku"=="triangle" in
japanese) with a triangular
diagram:                             http://www.sankakucomplex.com/about/

                (games)

              Interactivity
                   o                       If you read much of the site,
                  / \                      though, you might feel that the
                 o---o                     triangle is more like:
           Multi-      Mono-
           media       media               "exhibitionism-pedophilia-incest"

        (anime)         (manga)                ABSOLUTE_IMAGINATION


They assert that this "complex" is
tighter in Japan, justifying it's
treatment as a single entity:
They point out that successful
translations between media is              SOUND_AGAINST_VISION
more common in Japan.

  They also claim that what
  unifies them all is a visual     That's probably true, except
  style dervived from manga...     I would guess it's not the
                                   only center of the triangle.
  Which raises the question
  of why you would use a
  triangle with manga off to
  one side as the emblem.

  A hierarchy with manga as parent           And the term monomedia
  would seem closer to the mark.             doesn't actually describe
                                             manga: a mix of images
                                             and words.

                                                 And yes, in this
                                                 case they're
                                                 sequential images.

                                                 CLOUDY


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