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So I went to see Inu-oh (2021)...
2025-04-17 09:47 pm[reposted with some revision]
I went to see Inu-oh (2021) in theaters with some friends a million years ago, back when it was a hot new film. The morning after, my friend read me some absolutely horrible takes on this film from tumblr dot com. Everything was about shipping the two lead characters, focusing solely on the "gay rock band" element. And as someone who worked my tail off studying premodern Japanese stuff, this made me both irate and grievously disappointed. So I spent several days doing a research deep dive on all the cultural context the average western weeaboo probably never bothered to look into, so maybe, just maybe, there could be a greater cultural appreciation on the rewatch.
90% of what I am about to say can be verified via English Wikipedia. The rest comes from Japanese sources, including Wikipedia and Kotobank. Strap in. This is a very long post.
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I went to see Inu-oh (2021) in theaters with some friends a million years ago, back when it was a hot new film. The morning after, my friend read me some absolutely horrible takes on this film from tumblr dot com. Everything was about shipping the two lead characters, focusing solely on the "gay rock band" element. And as someone who worked my tail off studying premodern Japanese stuff, this made me both irate and grievously disappointed. So I spent several days doing a research deep dive on all the cultural context the average western weeaboo probably never bothered to look into, so maybe, just maybe, there could be a greater cultural appreciation on the rewatch.
90% of what I am about to say can be verified via English Wikipedia. The rest comes from Japanese sources, including Wikipedia and Kotobank. Strap in. This is a very long post.
( Read more... )
