Entry #5

Made big updates in terms of showing off how the webpages will look like if they have at least some basic content. While both chapters are unfinished (also I am restricted to only adding two chapters considering the character only has to interactive parts of its body), I have roughly coded what these section would look like and also how it would function.

For example I have included a mouse-over feature over in-text citations which reveals the full information my references. There is also a simple css bit of code which allows the reader to reveal the larger full-res images should the reader also hover over the thumbnails.

Entry #4

Earth in my Window is an essay piece written by Takashi Murakami and translated by Linda Hoaglund; this is more or less a bit of a reflection piece for one of my first articles for my analysis; the essay in itself is comprised of smaller chapters, some more relevant to my research than others especially when Murakami compares the aesthetic and visual compositions presented in Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (as opposed to Tezuka's more dynamic style) and the result of Japan's downfall post second World War.

The most important part of the essay however and this is something I'll have to remind myself repeatedly to mention in my analysis is the difference between Otaku and what the West simply categorizes as 'nerdy'. It is not a simple case of Otaku being a Japanese term to describe a cultural body comprised of nerds. There is the air of obsession, their constant reference to a 'humiliated self' and of course the purely 'homegrown' aspect of what being Otaku actually means.

Subcultures being fashionable to some degree in the West (zoku), Otaku on the other hand the unfashionable indigenous black mark on the nation's map. 

"Otaku are mercurial, and embrace the internal contradiction of considering such definitions “un-otaku”"

Entry #3

During the holidays I have decided to look up tutorials so that I can teach myself some basic html and some basic css scripting so that I could create a really simple effect for the index page of my webpage/essay.

So far I've achieved a fairly rudimentary effect that does show off the function and look that I'm trying to aim for for my final product.

The only problem now is that all solutions I've tried for centering the content of my webpage has not worked. Which I aim to fix by the end of this week as well as tweaking other aspects of the page to make it feel better, like instead of a hard horizontal invisible line running through the character when you're hovering over the contents.