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Kando Conservatism – “Moving” war narratives in Japanese online fan videos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny
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Stories of kamikaze pilots thinking about their loved ones while flying their last mission, or of wrecked toys and their missing owners in Hiroshima, elicit an emotional response. This essay analyses and provides examples of war-themed fan-produced videos, defining their conservatism in relation to Japanese war history, and showing how it relates to the kandō experience of fan viewing practices.

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Fan videoswar narrativeskandō conservatism

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 15 , August 2018 , e5
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