This book examines the origins and boundaries of Japanese digital role-playing games. A geographically diverse roster of contributors introduces English-speaking audiences to Japanese video game scholarship and applies postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text.
This book examines the origins and boundaries of Japanese digital role-playing games. A geographically diverse roster of contributors introduces English-speaking audiences to Japanese video game scholarship and applies postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text.
Rachael Hutchinson is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Delaware. Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon is postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal.
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Acknowledgments A Note on Names and Sources List of Figures and Tables Introduction Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon and Rachael Hutchinson Part One: Genre Chapter 1: Evolution of a Genre: Dragon Quest and the JRPG Yuhsuke Koyama Chapter 2: Japan's Hard(ware) Power: Consoles, Culture, and the Mass Appeal of Japanese Role-Playing Games Nökkvi Jarl Bjarnason Chapter 3: Tutorial Characters and Rhetorical Strategies: Comparing Mother and Final Fantasy Fanny Barnabé Chapter 4: Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel III Joleen Blom Chapter 5: "Is JRPG Old Fashioned?": Genre, Circulation, and Identity Crisis in Black Rock Shooter: The Game Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon Part Two: Representation Chapter 6: Harmonized Dissonance: Parodies of Japan's America in Earthbound Benjamin Whaley Chapter 7: From Cleric to Daemon: Narrative and Ludic Agencies of Female Characters in the Tales of Series Loïc Mineau-Murray Chapter 8: Beyond Status Effects: Disability and Japanese Role-Playing Games Andrew Campana Chapter 9: Empathy for the Blind: Negotiating Disability in Final Fantasy XV Rachael Hutchinson Chapter 10: Everyday Aesthetics and Social Reform in Persona 5 Frank Mondelli Part Three: Liminality Chapter 11: Creating Community in Persona 3: Japanese Role-playing Games as Networked Practice Douglas Schules Chapter 12: Networked Asymmetry: Uncanny Traces in the Dark Souls Series Daniel Johnson Chapter 13: Pseudo-allegory in Final Fantasy XIV William Huber Chapter 14: Traces of Change in JRPG History: Mythological Thinking in Fate / Grand Order and Pokémon GO Daichi Nakagawa About the Contributors
Acknowledgments A Note on Names and Sources List of Figures and Tables Introduction Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon and Rachael Hutchinson Part One: Genre Chapter 1: Evolution of a Genre: Dragon Quest and the JRPG Yuhsuke Koyama Chapter 2: Japan's Hard(ware) Power: Consoles, Culture, and the Mass Appeal of Japanese Role-Playing Games Nökkvi Jarl Bjarnason Chapter 3: Tutorial Characters and Rhetorical Strategies: Comparing Mother and Final Fantasy Fanny Barnabé Chapter 4: Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel III Joleen Blom Chapter 5: "Is JRPG Old Fashioned?": Genre, Circulation, and Identity Crisis in Black Rock Shooter: The Game Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon Part Two: Representation Chapter 6: Harmonized Dissonance: Parodies of Japan's America in Earthbound Benjamin Whaley Chapter 7: From Cleric to Daemon: Narrative and Ludic Agencies of Female Characters in the Tales of Series Loïc Mineau-Murray Chapter 8: Beyond Status Effects: Disability and Japanese Role-Playing Games Andrew Campana Chapter 9: Empathy for the Blind: Negotiating Disability in Final Fantasy XV Rachael Hutchinson Chapter 10: Everyday Aesthetics and Social Reform in Persona 5 Frank Mondelli Part Three: Liminality Chapter 11: Creating Community in Persona 3: Japanese Role-playing Games as Networked Practice Douglas Schules Chapter 12: Networked Asymmetry: Uncanny Traces in the Dark Souls Series Daniel Johnson Chapter 13: Pseudo-allegory in Final Fantasy XIV William Huber Chapter 14: Traces of Change in JRPG History: Mythological Thinking in Fate / Grand Order and Pokémon GO Daichi Nakagawa About the Contributors
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