Daily Archives: February 16, 2021

Akane Tendo, Baudrillard’s Tsundere

There’s this idea I’ve talked about before, when I wrote about Ouran High School Hosts Club of The Simulacrum. The simulacrum is an idea covered under the concept of hyperreality. You don’t need to read that, but I want to use it as a place to start as we talk about something of a Smooch Month classic.

Who’s this?

Chances are if you’re a weeb my age, you’ll remember her as Akane Tendo.

And chances are good, you know her, and don’t know her. Not the real her, and there is a real her.

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