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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