WHERE THE FUCK DO I FIND ACADEMIC WORKS ABOUT THE MECHA HYSTORY, IM SEACHING SOME BOOK/PAPER/someshit FOR HOURS AND CAN'T FIND
>>23487953The majority of them are in Japanese if you are talking about Japanese Mecha. Yes academic papers exist.
>>23487953https://annas-archive.li/search?q=Mechademia
>>23487953You might want to read Beautiful Fighting Girls and Otaku: Japan's Database Animals for extra measure. Not entirely about mecha per se, but are an interesting read as far as Otaku Studies go (not my term, btw).
>>23487953>WHERE THE FUCK DO I FIND ACADEMIC WORKS ABOUT THE MECHA HYSTORY, IM SEACHING SOME BOOK/PAPER/someshit FOR HOURS AND CAN'T FINDI wonder what made you want to make this kind of thread OP? Hmm..Here's some bread crumb links: Mecha related too. https://tokion.jp/en/2021/06/09/re-examining-gundam-after-evangelion/https://mediag.bunka.go.jp/projects/project/images/JapaneseAnimationGuide.pdfhttps://www.cjas.org/~leng/revolution.htmhttps://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/04/04/beginners-guide-mecha-manga-animehttps://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/article/view/1186
>>23487953Bullshit, I had easily found stuff like exactly mecha genre history, GitS Major's muscles being phallic, motherfucking Evangelion exploration being used as an introduction to Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis Add research/study to keywords. And use a better search engine that's not bogged down by SEO
>>23487953"Loving The Machine" is sorta coffee-table as opposed to dense text but it's got a look through the history of Japan and robots going back to the karakuri stuff like the tea server https://archive.org/details/lovingmachineart0000hornfast piracy but it needs a login
>>23489238>Add research/study to keywords. And use a better search engine that's not bogged down by SEOThis thing does (still) exist: https://scholar.google.com/
>>23492630Yeah but its actually pretty hard to find good mecha studies in there, like shit is ass desu
https://www.animefringe.com/magazine/02.09/feature/9/index.php3Technically not a paper or study, but interesting nontheless. It's an article on a lecture Imagawa gave back in 2002, feels like something a paper would cite. Maybe if you can find some papers about anime and otaku culture in general that mention mecha anime, you can check their citations.
