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                                             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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