{"title":"Industries of Purity: Horses, Idols, and Affective Economy in Uma Musume Pretty Derby","authors":"L. Chu","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.a899691","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper scrutinizes the confluence of idol and racing industries in Uma Musume Pretty Derby, a Japanese multimedia franchise centering on \"horse girls,\" anthropomorphized characters based on racehorses. I study how the franchise elicits audience's emotional and financial investment by combining features of idol performance and racehorse breeding in an \"affective economy,\" while highlighting its strategy to reconcile the contradictory concepts of purity through a process I call \"purification.\" This paper uses the franchise to critically engage the imperial and eugenic legacies in the racing and idol industries of Japan, and demonstrates the complicated entanglement between science, empire, and entertainment.","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"31 1","pages":"133 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Configurations","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.a899691","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:This paper scrutinizes the confluence of idol and racing industries in Uma Musume Pretty Derby, a Japanese multimedia franchise centering on "horse girls," anthropomorphized characters based on racehorses. I study how the franchise elicits audience's emotional and financial investment by combining features of idol performance and racehorse breeding in an "affective economy," while highlighting its strategy to reconcile the contradictory concepts of purity through a process I call "purification." This paper uses the franchise to critically engage the imperial and eugenic legacies in the racing and idol industries of Japan, and demonstrates the complicated entanglement between science, empire, and entertainment.
ConfigurationsArts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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Configurations explores the relations of literature and the arts to the sciences and technology. Founded in 1993, the journal continues to set the stage for transdisciplinary research concerning the interplay between science, technology, and the arts. Configurations is the official publication of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA).
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