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OTAKU_ACORNS
May 24, 2012
Consider the way the female lead of
"My Girlfriend is a Geek" relates SHOJOS_DESCENT
to the male viewpoint character.
She reacts intensely to odd little
details about him, because they
resonate with a bewildering array For example, she's very
of fetishes (moe) she's acquired. appreciative of his system
of marking textbooks with
colored tabs.
TABS
This may be the sort of thing
that Azuma is groping toward...
there's something profoundly
warped about the way this woman OTAKU_BASE
relates to other human beings.
You might try to say that she's
sub-human or animalistic, but
those are so inaccurate they serve
as little more than empty sneers.
OTAKU_ANIMAL
More to the point she's not
"normal", her reactions are
twisted in an odd way, and
however you feel about
normality, you have to judge
for yourself whether they're
twisted in a good way.
She insists that her boyfriend
play her game, though she knows
it's not his game. There's something
a bit nasty and
He's baffled at first, then disturbing about
often confused, embarrassed, her behavior.
outraged, distressed... he's
at a loss for how to deal with She lives in a dual-layer
her incessant need to project world of reality and
her fantasies on to him. imagination, where
imagination often seems
to have the upper hand.
And the imagined world
is very mannered and
superficial, focused
on appearences...
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