Kūsō Kagaku Dokuhon
Kūsō Kagaku Dokuhon (空想科学読本) is a popular Japanese book series written by Yanagita Rikao (柳田理科雄) researching the unreasonableness of supermen and robots in anime and manga based on pseudo-science made up by himself, his own presentation in the series of books he wrote is just as unreasonable as what he claims the works to be. Yanagita made up numbers and settings just to make the works he criticized look incredibly stupid in a dramatic way, inserting incorrect physics equations into situations and making impossible assumptions where possible while ignoring the original reasonable numbers and settings. Yanagita admits putting drama before science and accuracy, but continued to disguise the series as a scientific writing.[1]
Related works
空想歴史読本 Dream history reading - 円道祥之
空想法律読本 Dream law reading - 盛田栄一
空想科学映画読本シリーズ Dream science anime reading series
空想科学漫画読本シリーズ Dream science manga reading series
空想科学日本昔話読本 Dream science Japan history readings
空想科学論争! Dream science controversies - 柳田理科雄・円道祥之 著
空想非科学大全 Dream unscience analogy - 柳田理科雄
空想英語読本 Dream English reading - Matthew Fargo
空想科学大戦!シリーズ（漫画作品）Dream science battle
References
- ^ Kūsō Kagaku Dokuhon, it is so weird!(こんなにヘンだぞ!『空想科学読本』), Yamamoto Hiroshi(山本弘)