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Database consumption

Database consumption (Japanese: データベース消費, romanized: dētabēsu shōhi) refers to a way of content consumption in which people do not consume a narrative itself, nor fragments of it, but rather its constituent elements.: 240 The concept was coined by the Japanese critic Hiroki Azuma in the early 2000s to describe how characters and mechanics found in a…

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Nodes106
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Avg. degree1.98
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related to Analysis · 23
Database consumption → According, Anime, Anthropologist Ian Condry, Azuma, Azuma's, Dejiko, Di Gi Charat, Fabian Schäfer, Forrest Greenwood, Greenwood, He, Japan's Database Animals, Lamarre, Martin Roth, Mechademia, Otaku, Paul Perdijk, The Anime Machine, The Soul, Thomas Lamarre
related to Otaku culture · 15
Database consumption → According, As, Azuma, Evangelion, For, Human Instrumentality Project, In Gundam, Japanese, Mobile Suit Gundam, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rather, S2 Engine, Satoshi Maejima, This, Universal Century
related to Non-otaku culture · 12
Database consumption → Azuma, DJ, DJs, First, He, However, In, Miyadai's, Satoshi Masuda, Second, Shinji Miyadai's, Some
related to Counterexamples · 8
Database consumption → Azuma, Hiroyuki Kagami, Koizora, On, Satoshi Hamano, Sociologist Shinji Miyadai, Tsunehiro Uno, Whether

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database consumption otaku azuma narrative characters culture moe works grand elements character japanese since azuma's fans cites patterns also anime

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those of Takashi Murakamiinstance ofthere are examples of incorporating elements of otaku culture into artworks0.80text
Chaosinstance ofthere are examples of incorporating elements of otaku culture into artworks0.80text
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisThomas Lamarre0.60section
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisThe Anime Machine0.60section
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisHe0.60section
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisAzuma0.60section
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisAccording0.60section
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisLamarre0.60section
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisWriting0.60section
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisMechademia0.60section
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisForrest Greenwood0.60section
Database consumptionrelated to AnalysisAzuma's0.60section

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