Otaku No Blossay
Before taking this course I had never watched an Anime film. What attracted me to take the class was the deep interest I had seen from others of diverse racial backgrounds take in Anime. Most of the males in my life had been or still are big fans of Naruto. Sometimes, references to anime will pop of in rap music for example a line from rapper Robb Bank$ stating, “need a girl with ripped pants like goku after frieza.” And Lupe Fiasco naming his album Tetsuo & Youth which I learned from one of my guy friends is a reference to the movie Akira. I grew up in an area where rap, hip hop, and soul are the prominent music exposures. Growing up only overhearing conversations about Pokémon, Naruto, and witnessing tables in my middle school cafeteria dedicated to groups of boys playing Yu-Gi-Oh cards, I assumed anime was a predominantly male thing to be into with a small minority of girls who preferred that over the Barbie and Disney princess alternative. I was unaware of animes that have fem...