While I may have be not be writing “The Beginner’s Guide to Anime” column for On The Box, I can still write the odd piece. As it is LGBT History Month in the UK, I’ve written a piece about Yuri!!! On Ice for the website.
My latest piece for Anime UK News is an in-depth guide to the “Odagiri Effect” – where TV shows and other piece of media gain a large number of women followers because the male actors and/or characters are sexually attractive. The article covers Hetalia, Free!, Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!, Yuri!!! On Ice, and some non-anime related things such as BBC drama Poldark and novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
Pictured above is Joe Odagiri, the actor after whom the effect is named after.
I’ve written a feature for Anime UK News, looking at fandom and the way the language of fandom is used. It covers the changing meanings of the words “geek”, “otaku” and “weeaboo”, and I also try to come up with a way of defining fandom, a scale illustrated above. As well as referencing anime including One Piece, Naruto, Sword Art Online and Otaku no Video, there are some other things referenced in this column too, namely Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish and John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme.
A special feature for Anime UK News covering the yaoi series Finder, which was recently successfully re-stocked in a crowdfunding campaign by Digital Manga Publishing.
Ian Wolf: Odd Job Otaku 