EkuRiwo Journal Turns Its 17th Issue to IP, With Essays on Evangelion and Chiikawa
The critical journal EkuRiwo publishes its 17th issue on November 8, built around the theme "IP - The Ecosystem of Contemporary Culture."
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Why it matters
A small critical journal treating IP as a cultural mechanism rather than a marketing category puts the VTuber and Chiikawa economies in the same frame as Evangelion, which is where the industry's own vocabulary has been heading.
Key Facts
- EkuRiwo vol.17 publishes on November 8 with the feature "IP - The Ecosystem of Contemporary Culture."
- The issue includes an interview with Kawada Tomu of the development unit AR San-kyoudai.
- Essays in the feature cover Evangelion, Chiikawa, and VTubers, alongside 10 columns on IP.
- The issue is 144 pages (51 in color), A5 size, priced at 2,640 yen including tax.
- It sells at Literature Free Market Tokyo 43 at Tokyo Big Sight, on BOOTH, and at bookstores nationwide.
The feature includes an interview with Kawada Tomu of the development unit AR San-kyoudai, essays on Evangelion, Chiikawa, and VTubers, and 10 columns on topics from agricultural crops to character design. It goes on sale at Literature Free Market Tokyo 43 at Tokyo Big Sight, on BOOTH, and at bookstores nationwide.
The issue runs 144 pages, 51 of them in color, at A5 size, priced at 2,640 yen including tax. Fugakura contributes "Replace, Revival, Redefinition," and Kakuno Momoka writes on VTubers as "sekai-kei" that moves past oshi-katsu as consumer behavior. Yokoyama Kosuke's essay asks why the "Chiikawa pandemic" happened, and Kitade Shiori writes on the materialism of Evangelion in the IP era, plus a toolkit for thinking about IP. The 10 columns cover agricultural crops, employment of people with disabilities, landscapes, literary imagination, life, voice, character design, faith, mascot characters, and cultural properties.
- Interview: Kawada Tomu - Thinking That 'Expands' IP: Member of the development unit AR San-kyoudai
- Column: What is 'IP'? by Takai Kurara
- Column: A Toolkit for Thinking About IP by Kitade Shiori
- 10 Columns Exploring the Front Lines of IP: Agricultural crops, employment of people with disabilities, landscapes, literary imagination, life, voice, character design, faith, mascot characters, cultural properties
- Critique: Replace, Revival, Redefinition by Fugakura
- Critique: The Materialism of <Evangelion> - For the 'Work' in the IP Era by Kitade Shiori
- Critique: Do VTubers Dream of Trembling Souls? by Kakuno Momoka: A VTuber theory as 'sekai-kei' that overcomes 'oshi-katsu' as consumer behavior
- Critique: We Are Neither Small nor Cute - Why Did the 'Chiikawa Pandemic' Happen? by Yokoyama Kosuke
- Outside the feature: My Sinking Japan - A Study of Takahashi Gen'ichiro by Takenaga Tomohiro: Accompanied by critical journal reviews
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