In this first episode of this podcast on mediated intimacies, I talk with Susana Tosca, associate professor at Roskilde University in Denmark. We talk about otome games, Japanese video games in which women can date a pool of handsome men. What are otome games exactly, and why do we play them, and how can we study them in the field of game studies? You'll find Susana's answers in this episode!

Games:

Angelique (Ruby Party, 1994)
Hakuoki (Idea Factory, 2008)
Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly (Idea Factory, 2018)
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Chunsoft, 2010)
Shall We Date? series

Books and articles:

Reading the Romance (Radway, 1984)
Transmedial worlds in everyday life (Tosca and Klastrup, 2019)
Appropriating the Shinsengumi: Hakuoki Fan Fiction as Transmedial/Transcultural Exploration (Tosca, 2021)
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (Mulvey, 1975) --on the male gaze in cinema

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Episode 1 - Otome Games with Susana Tosca