A Japanese media pilgrimage to a Tasmanian bakery

A small bakery in regional Tasmania, Australia, has been reimagined as a pop culture destination by Japanese tourists who claim it is the inspiration for a key location in the anime Kiki's Delivery Service. To understand how and why Japanese tourists have located this bakery in the imaginary wo...

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Main Author:	Craig Norris
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Organization for Transformative Works 2013-09-01
Series:	Transformative Works and Cultures
Subjects:	Anime Cult geography Fan community Media scaffold
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2013.0470

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description	A small bakery in regional Tasmania, Australia, has been reimagined as a pop culture destination by Japanese tourists who claim it is the inspiration for a key location in the anime Kiki's Delivery Service. To understand how and why Japanese tourists have located this bakery in the imaginary world of Kiki, two processes are explored: the media pilgrimage, where fans bridge their ordinary reality and enter the special media world, and the media scaffold, where Kiki becomes a way to interpret the world around them.
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A Japanese media pilgrimage to a Tasmanian bakery

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