Season 10, Episode 2: the Prince and the Pauper (Patreon)

This week on MSB, it's episode 2 of Victory Gundam: The Day He Met the Machine. We discuss this much more conventional opening episode, more dubious translation choices, running gags, production priorities, and lots more. Plus Nina presents the first part of her research into the social fallout of the asset price bubble and the place of young people and otaku in Japanese society as of 1993. Please listen to it!

Show Notes: The Bubble Bursts, Youth Culture, & Otaku

• Wikipedia pages summarizing Japan's asset price bubble and the 'lost decade(s).' 
• Books and papers consulted/referenced:
  
  Funabashi, Yōichi, and Barak Kushner. Examining Japan’s Lost Decades. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
  
  Kinsella, Sharon. “Japanese Subculture in the 1990s: Otaku and the Amateur Manga Movement.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 1998, pp. 289–316. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/133236. Accessed 24 Jan. 2024.
  
  Mathews, Gordon, and Bruce White. Japan’s Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society? Taylor and Francis, 2012.
  
  McCreery, John Linwood. Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. University of Hawai’i Press, 2000.
  

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