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Focusing on Araragi Koyomi’s transformation after encountering a vampire, the study argues that the series’ non-chronological design and aggressive visual language both attract otaku and expose the limits of their consumption as remediation. 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The story revolves around the character Araragi Koyomi, a high school student in his senior year who encounters a powerful vampire during a school break and is transformed into a semi-supernatural being himself. However, this is not merely an example of a supernaturally-focused anime, but rather is a discussion on the impact of capitalism on the subjectivity of the individual. The narrative and experience of viewing Bakemonogatari is a commentary on the trauma of postmodernity and otaku consumption’s failure to remediate the objectification of consumer-capitalism. The series’ design and narrative choices is designed to attract otaku, to whose consumption these patterns are designed to appeal, and thereby give warning to otaku concerning the potential dangers posed by their approach towards media. The characters in this series are possessed by Specters who dredge up and yet simultaneously suppress this traumatic state of existence in a world without catharsis and without justice. Otaku, attracted to moe-kyara to escape the drudgery and misery of the three-dimensional world, are shown that this escape itself is a form of harm—like Araragi, they turn meaning into a form of self-flagellation and heap untold suffering on the moe-kyara towards which they are inextricably drawn.  \nKeywords: Bakemonogatari, Postmodernity, Otaku, Moe-Kyara, ConsumerCapitalism, Identity  \nAuthor Bio: Barbara Greene received her Ph. D from the University of Arizona in 2017. She is currently an Associate Professor at Tokyo International University where she teaches courses on Japanese literature and popular culture. Her research interests include the influence of popular culture on collective memory and postmodern identities in fiction. She has been previously published in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction and the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0  \nGeneric License  \nIntroduction  \nThe anime adaptation of the light novel franchise Bakemonogatari was released in 2009. In the following twelve years, twenty-two more series of various lengths subdivided thus far into three seasons were produced with more scheduled for future release.1 The story revolves around the character Araragi Koyomi, a high school student in his senior year who encounters a powerful vampire during a school break and is transformed into a semi-supernatural being himself. As a result, he and a harem of young women who are also tied to the supernatural engage in exorcisms and interpersonal struggles. However, the series itself is not told in chronological order—Araragi’s battle with the vampire, entitled Kizumonogatari, was not released as an anime adaptation until 2016, nearly seven years after the release of the franchise’s first season of Bakemonogatari. 2 Furthermore, events occur out of chronological order within the episodes; cut-scenes and text flash across the screen, photography of realworld locations and people are incorporated into the animation, objects are endlessly copy-pasted to create the background, art styles dramatically and jarringly transform and then revert to the original. The series’ imagery constantly accosts the viewer, bombarding them with visuals and splashes of primary colors. But to what purpose? The narrative and experience of viewing Bakemonogatari is a commentary on the trauma of postmodernity and otaku consumption’s failure to remediate the objectification of consumer capitalism. The series’ design and narrative choices are designed to attract otaku, to whose consumption these patterns are designed to appeal, and thereby give warning to otaku concerning the potential dangers posed by their approach towards media.  \nOtaku as a Symptom  \nTo fully understa","cbCaimOrm0pf3RKJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimOrm0pf3RKJ","pdf",430534,39,"English","# Introduction\n## Otaku as a Symptom","[{\"question\":\"What is the core focus of the analysis of Bakemonogatari?\",\"answer\":\"The analysis focuses on how Bakemonogatari comments on postmodern trauma and on otaku consumption’s failure to remediate the objectification produced by consumer capitalism.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Araragi Koyomi’s storyline function in the argument?\",\"answer\":\"Araragi’s transformation into a semi-supernatural being and his struggles with supernatural forces are used to illustrate how traumatic states are both dredged up and suppressed.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does otaku media culture play in understanding the series?\",\"answer\":\"Otaku are treated as a symptom of a broader, database-oriented media culture that privileges mass-produced fictional worlds and component-based reassembly, rather than original, uniquely authored texts.\"}]","Haunted Psychologies - The Specter of Postmodern Trauma in Bakemonogatari - Volume 2 | PDF",98]