Or rather, reading them as a folklorist. 'Cause it's a myth system I really know nothing about outside of appearances in Sandman (and even then I actually got it in my head that Susano was Korean; don't know why), and I'd *like* to be interested, but then every time I start I come across this sort of thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Lucky_Gods#In_popular_culture
It's nearly as long as the article and consists of three animes, two video games, Japanese softcore porn Variety speak and a Dan Brown novel, although I guess in my field I can't really ***** about the Dan Brown.
Just for comparison's sake:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor#Portrayal_in_modern_popular_culture
Oh. "Wagner," you say? Just Wagner? And when you bring up Marvel Comics and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys it's about how those demonstrate the millennial appeal of a thesis put forth by Tacitus and Saxo Grammaticus? Wow. That's not really stupid. How very odd.
Anyway, admittedly, a Germanic figure like Thor is more accessible for English-speaking scholarship, especially wiki-scholarship, and most of the other Shinto pages at worst link to this outsourced abomination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto_(pop_culture)
But man.
Anyway, I am rambling like all hell, but I guess what I'm saying is: does anyone have a good source for Shinto mythology that's respectful of its literary and cultural richness, and consequently light on the weeaboo bull****?
Also, are we allowed to way "weeaboo?"
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Did someone say "weeaboo?" 'Cause I think I just heard someone say "weeaboo."
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It amuses me that "weeaboo" has become much more common than "Wapanese".
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If it's neither true by definition nor falsifiable, then it isn't important.
Is the term seriously just from that PBF comic? Like it was a nonce word and then it got a secondary meaning about anime fanboys? Awesome.
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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/in_popular_culture.png
You're not the only one who noticed.
But to remain on the topic at hand; Nope, I got nothing. You could try a book.
Yeah, I was asking for a book. I'll just put Shinto into a library catalogue and go with the first hit.
"An Introduction to the Japanese Religion" sounds sufficiently clinical.
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