For a site with this name it's funny i couldn't find a thread on denpa media. What is everyone's favourite denpa work (anime/vn/manga/whatever)? What do you even consider to be a denpa work?
2 Name: Anonymous2024-06-05 19:34
thats an easy question an example of denpa song is "in the city" by y3sthanky0u - Mumble Silk Skin album at 13:53 it samples the opening of the denpa anime Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl or Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko the opening is sang by the denpa band Shinsei Kamattechan What is an Psychoelectric girl? well Denpa" or "Electric Wave" is used in Japanese to refer to a person who is crazy or holds odd beliefs, similar to the English term "Tin foil hat"
there are various meanings of denpa. Sometimes it's used for so called "akiba-kei" like https://youtu.be/d1qILv7Jp98 as an example of denpasong. but then denpa also can mean psychological mind break like subahibi cross†channel or chaos;head are denpa VNs. Even though the term "denpa" is highly debated in that context as well, it means something like psychological horror involving delusions and eroguro nonsense. i think cross†channel is a great vn. When it comes to anime and manga, the term isn't used as much so it's hard to say. There are obviously shows like denpa onna to seishun otoko or denpa kyoushi which are called denpa in the name? Maybe welcome to the nhk would be the most denpa-like anime / LN. If you look at "denpa" interest stacks on MAL, some people take it to mean the psycholical delusional horror and include nhk chaos head eva and stuff (eva is definitely not denpa btw), but then there is a list with moetan and digi charat and things which are "hyper moe" over the top cute psychosis like denpa-song. So which denpa do you preffer?
Interested in this as well, perhaps eventually creating something resembling a "denpa-core" chart. Specifically interested in finding more denpa music (off-topic I guess?), as in music that embodies denpa aesthetic sensibilities in the way >>3 described, not the actual "denpa" genre.
Someone like Dean Blunt comes to mind immediately. Or Japanese noise bands like Kamattechan and Moreru. "Webcore" laden electronic music like sewerslvt and their clones seem like obvious inclusions, though most of them sorta come off as tackily wearing the aesthetic as a mask because it's in right now to me.