動漫試題舉隅 (Structured questions)

Questions:

1. Rozen Maiden is about feminism. The pic below shows a character Shinku.

(a) Explain why she is NOT a protagonist.

(b) Draw the real protagonist.

(c) Suigintou from the first season is set to be an antagonist. Explain why there exist some audiences in favor of her.

Solution:

1. (a) Like Doraemon where Nobita is the real protagonist, Shinku is not the central of the plot.

(b)

(c) Justice is always relative. There must be some audiences NOT in favor of Shinku, given Shinku and Suigintou are foes to each other.

2. Nerdouches are commonplace.

(a) Below shows some Doujin culture activists in a commercial festival:

Explain why they are not real otakus.

(b) The opposite to nerdouches is heroes.

(i) Name the person show above.

(ii) Explain why he is a hero.

(iii) Using the results of (ii), explain why ALL ACG fans, not real otakus, are nerdouches.

Solution:

2. (a) They are all pure MK.

By definition, all fans are Pure MK.

Pure MK and Pure Otakus are mutually exclusive, so they are impossible to be otakus.

(b)

(i) Edward Said

(ii) He guards against Zionism.

(iii) Popular cultures from Japan is a manifestation of Cultural Imperialism from Japan which are asskissers of neoliberalism founded by Jews. So all ACG fans are the enablers and thus fools.

Popular cultures from Japan is a manifestation of Cultural Imperialism from Japan, people of which are asskissers of neoliberalism founded by Jews. So all ACG fans are the enablers and thus fools.

(i) Name the person shown above.

3. Below shows 2 influential persons for centuries:

Person A:

Person B:

(a) Person A and B are German scholars.

(i) Name these 2 persons and state their relationship(s).

(ii) Outline their contributions to modern ideologies.

(b) One of the person leads to grand narratives on modern societies.

(i) What is the leitmotif of the grand nattatives in 20th century?

(ii) Do animes today attempt to challenge such narratives? Explain briefly.

Erratum:

One of the persons leads to grand narratives on modern societies.

Solution:

(a) (i) Person A: G.W.F. Hegel; Person B: Carl Marx. Person A is the professor to Person B for enlightenment.

(ii) Person A advocates idealist dialectics while Person B promotes materialist dialectics, where the latter becomes the mainstream of discourses, i.e. Marxism and Communism as the derivative. Marx's ideologies completely changes the ecosystem of Asian countries, especially China, North Korea and Vietnam after WWII.

(b)(i) Late capitalism will lead to non-stop duels between Bourgeois and Proletariat, and labor will rule the world.

(ii) After WWII, some philosophers dislike modernism, especially the pro-commumist discourses of the texts of the Zeitgeist, so they will build up literary discourses. be it verbal or visual, to dispute modernity. Some examples in animes include Tsubasa Chornicle authored by CLAMP in 2005, and FullMetal Alchemist in 2003. These texts attempts to demonstrate intertextuallity which defies the norms of modernity. Such ideological movements is typical of postmodernism.

Proofread:

(a) (i) Person A: G.W.F. Hegel; Person B: Carl Marx.

Person A is the professor to Person B for enlightenment.

(ii) Person A advocates idealist dialectics while Person B promotes materialist dialectics, where the latter becomes the mainstream of discourses, i.e. Marxism, and Communism as the derivative. Marx's ideologies completely change the ecosystem of Asian countries, especially China, North Korea and Vietnam after WWII.

(b)(i) Late capitalism will lead to non-stop duels between Bourgeois and Proletariat, and labors will rule the world.

(ii) After WWII, some philosophers dislike modernism, especially the pro-communist discourses of the texts of the Zeitgeist, so they will build up literary discourses, be it verbal or visual, to disprove modernity. Some examples in animes include Tsubasa Chronicle authored by CLAMP in 2005, and FullMetal Alchemist in 2003. These texts attemptsto demonstrate intertextuallity which defies the norms of modernity. Such ideological movements is typical of postmodernism.

(ii) After WWII, some philosophers dislike modernism, especially the pro-communist discourses of the texts of the Zeitgeist, so they will build up literary discourses, be it verbal or visual, to disprove modernity. Some examples in animes include Tsubasa Chronicle authored by CLAMP in 2005, and FullMetal Alchemist in 2003. These texts attempt to demonstrate intertextuality which defies the norms of modernity. Such ideological movements is typical of postmodernism.

Summary:

當今嘅動漫迷係一堆無思想嘅動物，牠們絕大部分都有參與當代動漫創作，那麼牠們必定一代比一代咁低能，好似師奶咁嘻嘻哈哈入棺材