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It goes on sale at Literature Free Market Tokyo 43 at Tokyo Big Sight, on BOOTH, and at bookstores nationwide.","whyItMatters":"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.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe issue runs 144 pages, 51 of them in color, at A5 size, priced at 2,640 yen including tax. Fugakura contributes \u0026#34;Replace, Revival, Redefinition,\u0026#34; and Kakuno Momoka writes on VTubers as \u0026#34;sekai-kei\u0026#34; that moves past oshi-katsu as consumer behavior. Yokoyama Kosuke\u0026#39;s essay asks why the \u0026#34;Chiikawa pandemic\u0026#34; 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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInterview: Kawada Tomu - Thinking That \u0026#39;Expands\u0026#39; IP\u003c/strong\u003e: Member of the development unit AR San-kyoudai\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColumn: What is \u0026#39;IP\u0026#39;? by Takai Kurara\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColumn: A Toolkit for Thinking About IP by Kitade Shiori\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e10 Columns Exploring the Front Lines of IP\u003c/strong\u003e: Agricultural crops, employment of people with disabilities, landscapes, literary imagination, life, voice, character design, faith, mascot characters, cultural properties\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCritique: Replace, Revival, Redefinition by Fugakura\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCritique: The Materialism of \u0026lt;Evangelion\u0026gt; - For the \u0026#39;Work\u0026#39; in the IP Era by Kitade Shiori\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCritique: Do VTubers Dream of Trembling Souls? by Kakuno Momoka\u003c/strong\u003e: A VTuber theory as \u0026#39;sekai-kei\u0026#39; that overcomes \u0026#39;oshi-katsu\u0026#39; as consumer behavior\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCritique: We Are Neither Small nor Cute - Why Did the \u0026#39;Chiikawa Pandemic\u0026#39; Happen? by Yokoyama Kosuke\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOutside the feature: My Sinking Japan - A Study of Takahashi Gen\u0026#39;ichiro by Takenaga Tomohiro\u003c/strong\u003e: Accompanied by critical journal reviews\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","blueskyPost":"EkuRiwo vol.17 lands November 8, themed on IP. 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