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[the_rck]

I don't know if anybody reading this will have any ideas, but metanews is looking for sources for meta about various fandom topics. We follow a bunch of blogs and DW journals. We search AO3 and Tumblr (though we barely scratch the surface on Tumblr. It's very hard to find things there). What we lack, however, is any real sources for meta on anime/manga fandoms. We get so little that we use a generic tag for anime and manga rather than using the name of the specific fandom because specific fandoms don't ever come up again. Even a juggernaut like Naruto has only come up twice. Anyone know of any good sources for fannish meta about anime/manga fandoms?

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[havocthecat]

I would ask on girlgay or ladyslash and the experts on yuri fandoms could give you good pointers for related anime and manga sources.

[the_rck]

Thanks! I'll post something to both communities asking for help. I think we could do with more meta about femslash, too, though most of what we link isn't particularly shippy in any direction.

[havocthecat]

When fem_thoughts is active (though it hasn't been in a while), there's femslash meta on it.

[heavenscalyx]

Also, there is Erica Friedman's Okazu for yuri!

[the_rck]

Does Okazu post anything that's not a review? The policy for metanews is that we only link to reviews if they have substantial analysis of some aspect of the canon. I don't mind adding Okazu to our list of blogs to follow, but it only makes sense to do it if Okazu sometimes posts the sort of things we link to. There are blogs (some quite prolific) we follow that go weeks between linkable posts, so that's not a barrier.

[heavenscalyx]

Hmmm. I know I've seen her post about some canon analysis, but I think most recently she's been primarily reviewing new(ish) things. So perhaps she's not the most linkable for your purposes. Hmmm.