About

Thank you for visiting Otaku Champloo, a little project I made to host my spazzing about mangas and anime in one place. Although primarily this place is more focused on manga, occasionally I’d put a spatter or two about the animes I’ve seen as well. And yes, I should be updating this more often. I really really should. Slap me in my comments if I don’t.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hi. My name’s Khursten Santos, a cultural and media historian based in Manila, specialising in Asian queer cultures and media history, specifically, Boys Love Culture in Japan and in Southeast Asia. My work dives into the affective literacies of queer cultures, such as BL, its impacts on sexual expression, transcultural knowledge, and neoliberal media market in Japan and Southeast Asia. I currently teach history, gender, and Japan-related subjects at Ateneo de Manila University.

This blog represents my life as a fan and academic. My life as a fan is forever in bloom. Or should I say that my life as a fujoshi is forever rolling towards the deepest part of hell? Either way, my fujoshi life has taught me many things and led me to many amazing experiences such as meeting Takemiya Keiko!

I used to be a part of MangaCast, occasionally participated in roundtables in Manga Bookshelf, hosted some Manga Moveable Feasts, and written for various publications on manga. I’ve also hosted panels in conventions such as Lights Out, Blush Con, Room801, FujoCon. I also write about my travel, food on punked noodle. My work as an academic can be found on Academia.

ABOUT OTAKU CHAMPLOO

This blog is a litany of my love/hate relationship with manga and Japan.

I started this site as a memory exercise of sorts since I really have a horrible memory when it comes to remembering some manga. At the same time, I had friends who often asked me for recommendations hence this site was a way for friends to keep track of the manga I read. Eventually, it’s become a place where I could put down my thoughts on manga. More often than not, I just spazz about manga here.

While it may seem that I talk about a lot of fujoshi stuff, I try to cover as much manga genres that I can. As of late, I read Japanese manga more than I read English-translated manga but I do try to review English titles I get a hand of once in a while. I also talk about things I learn about manga. I sometimes talk about anime too. I also try to talk about my life as a fan and the shite I do for manga.

ABOUT THE MANGA SHE READS LATELY

… I read a lot of stuff. I don’t have a preference in terms of genre but for 2017, I want to read the manga in my tsundoku pile. ; 3;

GOT A MANGA TO RECOMMEND?

You may freely comment on my journal or e-mail me at punkednoodle (at) gmail.com