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Touhou at the academic conference Replaying Japan 2015
Failure McFailFace:
Maybe it's about the chaos in PoFV that you don't get anywhere else?
There's no real patterns in it, so you can't memorize what's going on.
Tengukami:
--- Quote from: cuc on May 24, 2015, 02:45:41 AM ---Some other overarching themes: a Zhuang Zi-inspired longing for individual freedom in a conformist society; the formation of and tensions within the supposingly homogeneous Japanese nation.
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This seems to be a pretty common theme in anime as well. Arakawa Under The Bridge springs immediately to mind. I think any hyperconformist culture is going to have this kind of fantasy wish fulfilment in the arts.