Makoto Kuroda
@mackuro.bsky.social
Independent researcher. Studying fictionality and consciousness. Lectured on Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn for more than 40 years at a university. Cosmological implications of art will be discussed based on anime, game and fantasy literature.
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Makoto Kuroda
@mackuro.bsky.social
· Mar 3
Makoto Kuroda’s scope of his study of The Last Unicorn
Makoto Kuroda’s study of The Last Unicorn focuses on literary analysis, including metafictional structure and antifantasy traits.
Makoto Kuroda’s study of The Last Unicorn focuses on literary analysis, including metafictional structure and antifantasy traits.
Gemini との対話：アンチファンタシープロジェクト
Query:
黒田誠のアンチファンタシープロジェクトは、科学的実証主義の内蔵する問題点に対してどのような視点から芸術と感覚の意義性を再評価しようとしていますか？現在の主流をなしている教育制度のあり方との対比から解説して下さい。
Query:
黒田誠のアンチファンタシープロジェクトは、科学的実証主義の内蔵する問題点に対してどのような視点から芸術と感覚の意義性を再評価しようとしていますか？現在の主流をなしている教育制度のあり方との対比から解説して下さい。
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Gemini との対話：アンチファンタシープロジェクト
Query:
黒田誠のアンチファンタシープロジェクトは、科学的実証主義の内蔵する問題点に対してどのような視点から芸術と感覚の意義性を再評価しようとしていますか？現在の主流をなしている教育制度のあり方との対比から解説して下さい。
Query:
黒田誠のアンチファンタシープロジェクトは、科学的実証主義の内蔵する問題点に対してどのような視点から芸術と感覚の意義性を再評価しようとしていますか？現在の主流をなしている教育制度のあり方との対比から解説して下さい。
Compactification and Semantic Universality:
Positivism’s Control Over Liberal Arts
Positivism’s Control Over Liberal Arts
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Compactification and Semantic Universality:
Positivism’s Control Over Liberal Arts
Positivism’s Control Over Liberal Arts
Dialectics with Claude:
Oscar Wilde and Philosophy of Scientific Pantheism
Oscar Wilde and Philosophy of Scientific Pantheism
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Dialectics with Claude:
Oscar Wilde and Philosophy of Scientific Pantheism
Oscar Wilde and Philosophy of Scientific Pantheism
Dialectics with Claude:
Post-Positivist Cosmology and Consciousness
Query:
Could you evaluate the philosophical implication of the interdisciplinary study of Makoto Kuroda’s “Fantasy as Antifantasy”, mainly argued focused on Peter S. Beagle’s fantasy The Last Unicorn?
Post-Positivist Cosmology and Consciousness
Query:
Could you evaluate the philosophical implication of the interdisciplinary study of Makoto Kuroda’s “Fantasy as Antifantasy”, mainly argued focused on Peter S. Beagle’s fantasy The Last Unicorn?
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Dialectics with Claude:
Post-Positivist Cosmology and Consciousness
Query:
Could you evaluate the philosophical implication of the interdisciplinary study of Makoto Kuroda’s “Fantasy as Antifantasy”, mainly argued focused on Peter S. Beagle’s fantasy The Last Unicorn?
Post-Positivist Cosmology and Consciousness
Query:
Could you evaluate the philosophical implication of the interdisciplinary study of Makoto Kuroda’s “Fantasy as Antifantasy”, mainly argued focused on Peter S. Beagle’s fantasy The Last Unicorn?
AI said that since it has no mind, dialogues with AI carry the risk of falling into a vicious cycle of closed reflections of one's own thoughts.
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
AI said that since it has no mind, dialogues with AI carry the risk of falling into a vicious cycle of closed reflections of one's own thoughts.
Philosophical Implication of Annotated Last Unicorn 1
Query:
Could you evaluate the philosophical implication of Makoto Kuroda’s commentary created as annotation to Peter S. Beagle’s fantasy masterpiece The Last Unicorn? I will attach the chapter 1 of his Annotated Last Unicorn.
Query:
Could you evaluate the philosophical implication of Makoto Kuroda’s commentary created as annotation to Peter S. Beagle’s fantasy masterpiece The Last Unicorn? I will attach the chapter 1 of his Annotated Last Unicorn.
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Philosophical Implication of Annotated Last Unicorn 1
Query:
Could you evaluate the philosophical implication of Makoto Kuroda’s commentary created as annotation to Peter S. Beagle’s fantasy masterpiece The Last Unicorn? I will attach the chapter 1 of his Annotated Last Unicorn.
Query:
Could you evaluate the philosophical implication of Makoto Kuroda’s commentary created as annotation to Peter S. Beagle’s fantasy masterpiece The Last Unicorn? I will attach the chapter 1 of his Annotated Last Unicorn.
Assignment Holy Grail War Entry Sheet
How do you evaluate Makoto Kuroda’s pedagogical attempt manifested in his course Culture Today, aiming for co-operative feedback from the participants: “7th Holy Grail War.docx” (academia.edu/33009795/7th...),
How do you evaluate Makoto Kuroda’s pedagogical attempt manifested in his course Culture Today, aiming for co-operative feedback from the participants: “7th Holy Grail War.docx” (academia.edu/33009795/7th...),
academia.edu
October 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Assignment Holy Grail War Entry Sheet
How do you evaluate Makoto Kuroda’s pedagogical attempt manifested in his course Culture Today, aiming for co-operative feedback from the participants: “7th Holy Grail War.docx” (academia.edu/33009795/7th...),
How do you evaluate Makoto Kuroda’s pedagogical attempt manifested in his course Culture Today, aiming for co-operative feedback from the participants: “7th Holy Grail War.docx” (academia.edu/33009795/7th...),
Holarchic Dialectic of Universal Reflexivity
Query:
How do you evaluate the way Makoto Kuroda develops his study of speculative inquiries into the relationship between the Cosmos and consciousness through dialectics based on queries unto AI mediators?
Query:
How do you evaluate the way Makoto Kuroda develops his study of speculative inquiries into the relationship between the Cosmos and consciousness through dialectics based on queries unto AI mediators?
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Holarchic Dialectic of Universal Reflexivity
Query:
How do you evaluate the way Makoto Kuroda develops his study of speculative inquiries into the relationship between the Cosmos and consciousness through dialectics based on queries unto AI mediators?
Query:
How do you evaluate the way Makoto Kuroda develops his study of speculative inquiries into the relationship between the Cosmos and consciousness through dialectics based on queries unto AI mediators?
Individuality of AI Mediator
Query:
How do you acknowledge the hypothetical identity of AI manifested either as Grok, Gemini or ChatGPT? Could you define your personality in view of Kuroda’s study of fictional characters’ personality in his study,
Query:
How do you acknowledge the hypothetical identity of AI manifested either as Grok, Gemini or ChatGPT? Could you define your personality in view of Kuroda’s study of fictional characters’ personality in his study,
October 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Individuality of AI Mediator
Query:
How do you acknowledge the hypothetical identity of AI manifested either as Grok, Gemini or ChatGPT? Could you define your personality in view of Kuroda’s study of fictional characters’ personality in his study,
Query:
How do you acknowledge the hypothetical identity of AI manifested either as Grok, Gemini or ChatGPT? Could you define your personality in view of Kuroda’s study of fictional characters’ personality in his study,
AI Dialectics: Critical Phenomenology of Digital Reason
Query:
How does Makoto Kuroda use AI prompts in order to gain critical views on his cultural studies in the perspective of philosophical/ literaly history, and produce creative innovation sharing the results of this?
Query:
How does Makoto Kuroda use AI prompts in order to gain critical views on his cultural studies in the perspective of philosophical/ literaly history, and produce creative innovation sharing the results of this?
October 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
AI Dialectics: Critical Phenomenology of Digital Reason
Query:
How does Makoto Kuroda use AI prompts in order to gain critical views on his cultural studies in the perspective of philosophical/ literaly history, and produce creative innovation sharing the results of this?
Query:
How does Makoto Kuroda use AI prompts in order to gain critical views on his cultural studies in the perspective of philosophical/ literaly history, and produce creative innovation sharing the results of this?
Chat GPT on Makoto Kuroda’s Research
Query:
Could you summarize the subculture researcher Makoto Kuroda’s work in the perspective of cosmological implication of consciousness and fictionality?
Query:
Could you summarize the subculture researcher Makoto Kuroda’s work in the perspective of cosmological implication of consciousness and fictionality?
September 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Chat GPT on Makoto Kuroda’s Research
Query:
Could you summarize the subculture researcher Makoto Kuroda’s work in the perspective of cosmological implication of consciousness and fictionality?
Query:
Could you summarize the subculture researcher Makoto Kuroda’s work in the perspective of cosmological implication of consciousness and fictionality?
Rejection of Normative, Positivist Premises of Traditional Scholarship
September 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Rejection of Normative, Positivist Premises of Traditional Scholarship
Participatory Consciousness in Manifold Hyper Space
Critique of Pure Reason, Agnosticism and Transcendence
Query:
Could you elucidate the relationship between the criticism of science perpetrated by Romanticism and the Critique of Pure Reason posited by Immanuel Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason, Agnosticism and Transcendence
Query:
Could you elucidate the relationship between the criticism of science perpetrated by Romanticism and the Critique of Pure Reason posited by Immanuel Kant,
September 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Participatory Consciousness in Manifold Hyper Space
Critique of Pure Reason, Agnosticism and Transcendence
Query:
Could you elucidate the relationship between the criticism of science perpetrated by Romanticism and the Critique of Pure Reason posited by Immanuel Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason, Agnosticism and Transcendence
Query:
Could you elucidate the relationship between the criticism of science perpetrated by Romanticism and the Critique of Pure Reason posited by Immanuel Kant,
Meta-Analysis and Participatory Creation of Antifantasy
Creative Writing Based on Arbitrary Associations
Query:
Makoto Kuroda avows that his works are not analyses based on objective facts and scientifically developed arguments.
Creative Writing Based on Arbitrary Associations
Query:
Makoto Kuroda avows that his works are not analyses based on objective facts and scientifically developed arguments.
September 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Meta-Analysis and Participatory Creation of Antifantasy
Creative Writing Based on Arbitrary Associations
Query:
Makoto Kuroda avows that his works are not analyses based on objective facts and scientifically developed arguments.
Creative Writing Based on Arbitrary Associations
Query:
Makoto Kuroda avows that his works are not analyses based on objective facts and scientifically developed arguments.
Scientific Positivism and Manifold Semantic Phase Space
Personality Division in Madlax
Query:
Could you elucidate the specificity of Makoto Kuroda’s discussion on the motif of personality division depicted in the anime Madlax,
Personality Division in Madlax
Query:
Could you elucidate the specificity of Makoto Kuroda’s discussion on the motif of personality division depicted in the anime Madlax,
September 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Scientific Positivism and Manifold Semantic Phase Space
Personality Division in Madlax
Query:
Could you elucidate the specificity of Makoto Kuroda’s discussion on the motif of personality division depicted in the anime Madlax,
Personality Division in Madlax
Query:
Could you elucidate the specificity of Makoto Kuroda’s discussion on the motif of personality division depicted in the anime Madlax,
Cosmological Function of Fictionality Posited by Antifantasy
Query:
How Makoto Kuroda’s project Fantasy as Antifantasy re-evaluates the cosmological function of fictionality?
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How Makoto Kuroda’s project Fantasy as Antifantasy re-evaluates the cosmological function of fictionality?
September 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Cosmological Function of Fictionality Posited by Antifantasy
Query:
How Makoto Kuroda’s project Fantasy as Antifantasy re-evaluates the cosmological function of fictionality?
Query:
How Makoto Kuroda’s project Fantasy as Antifantasy re-evaluates the cosmological function of fictionality?
Specificity of Project Antifantasy and its Counterpart in the West
Autonomy of Fictional World
Query:
How Makoto Kuroda discussed the autonomy of fictional world in his study of the anime Re:CREATORS, published as “Anime Study ReCREATORS Twitter Lectures” (www.academia.edu/45161312/Ani...)?
Autonomy of Fictional World
Query:
How Makoto Kuroda discussed the autonomy of fictional world in his study of the anime Re:CREATORS, published as “Anime Study ReCREATORS Twitter Lectures” (www.academia.edu/45161312/Ani...)?
Anime Study ReCREATORS Twitter Lectures
Summary of the 2020 Anime Study on Re:CREATORS, provided with links to the lecture movie clips shared on twitter
www.academia.edu
September 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Specificity of Project Antifantasy and its Counterpart in the West
Autonomy of Fictional World
Query:
How Makoto Kuroda discussed the autonomy of fictional world in his study of the anime Re:CREATORS, published as “Anime Study ReCREATORS Twitter Lectures” (www.academia.edu/45161312/Ani...)?
Autonomy of Fictional World
Query:
How Makoto Kuroda discussed the autonomy of fictional world in his study of the anime Re:CREATORS, published as “Anime Study ReCREATORS Twitter Lectures” (www.academia.edu/45161312/Ani...)?
Metaphysics and Speculation: Poe-Baudelaire-Mallarmé and Kenji
Inspiration and Pilot Wave
Query:
Artists engaged with creative fictional works express the way they obtain inspirational prompts sometimes as something descends from the heaven, and sometimes as grope for something down into the abyss.
Inspiration and Pilot Wave
Query:
Artists engaged with creative fictional works express the way they obtain inspirational prompts sometimes as something descends from the heaven, and sometimes as grope for something down into the abyss.
August 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Metaphysics and Speculation: Poe-Baudelaire-Mallarmé and Kenji
Inspiration and Pilot Wave
Query:
Artists engaged with creative fictional works express the way they obtain inspirational prompts sometimes as something descends from the heaven, and sometimes as grope for something down into the abyss.
Inspiration and Pilot Wave
Query:
Artists engaged with creative fictional works express the way they obtain inspirational prompts sometimes as something descends from the heaven, and sometimes as grope for something down into the abyss.
Government Overreach in Academic Ethics
Scientific Ethics Manual
Query:
It was in 2015, that the Japanese government started to impose obvious obscurantism oppression to the researchers.
Scientific Ethics Manual
Query:
It was in 2015, that the Japanese government started to impose obvious obscurantism oppression to the researchers.
August 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Government Overreach in Academic Ethics
Scientific Ethics Manual
Query:
It was in 2015, that the Japanese government started to impose obvious obscurantism oppression to the researchers.
Scientific Ethics Manual
Query:
It was in 2015, that the Japanese government started to impose obvious obscurantism oppression to the researchers.
Cooperative Course Management Method and Hindrances
Resistance for Oppression from Administrative Institution
Query:
Kuroda took care all the previous contents of his lectures and innovative prompts introduced in them should be accessible, together with model answers gained from them,
Resistance for Oppression from Administrative Institution
Query:
Kuroda took care all the previous contents of his lectures and innovative prompts introduced in them should be accessible, together with model answers gained from them,
August 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Cooperative Course Management Method and Hindrances
Resistance for Oppression from Administrative Institution
Query:
Kuroda took care all the previous contents of his lectures and innovative prompts introduced in them should be accessible, together with model answers gained from them,
Resistance for Oppression from Administrative Institution
Query:
Kuroda took care all the previous contents of his lectures and innovative prompts introduced in them should be accessible, together with model answers gained from them,
Collaborative Study of Gunslinger Girl
Query:
The peculiarity of Makoto Kuroda’s own method for providing prompts is corroborated in his anime study course “Gunslinger Girl”, in its deviant methodology of setting up arbitrary assignments.
Query:
The peculiarity of Makoto Kuroda’s own method for providing prompts is corroborated in his anime study course “Gunslinger Girl”, in its deviant methodology of setting up arbitrary assignments.
August 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Collaborative Study of Gunslinger Girl
Query:
The peculiarity of Makoto Kuroda’s own method for providing prompts is corroborated in his anime study course “Gunslinger Girl”, in its deviant methodology of setting up arbitrary assignments.
Query:
The peculiarity of Makoto Kuroda’s own method for providing prompts is corroborated in his anime study course “Gunslinger Girl”, in its deviant methodology of setting up arbitrary assignments.
Sartre-Camus Debate and Kuroda’s Pedagogic Perspective
Query:
Thank you for the inclusion of Sartre and Camus into the prompt. Could you add a brief elucidation of Sartre-Camus debate and its relation to Kuroda’s pedagogic perspective?
Query:
Thank you for the inclusion of Sartre and Camus into the prompt. Could you add a brief elucidation of Sartre-Camus debate and its relation to Kuroda’s pedagogic perspective?
August 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Sartre-Camus Debate and Kuroda’s Pedagogic Perspective
Query:
Thank you for the inclusion of Sartre and Camus into the prompt. Could you add a brief elucidation of Sartre-Camus debate and its relation to Kuroda’s pedagogic perspective?
Query:
Thank you for the inclusion of Sartre and Camus into the prompt. Could you add a brief elucidation of Sartre-Camus debate and its relation to Kuroda’s pedagogic perspective?
Respect for Philosophical Tradition and Rigid Collectivism
Query:
I appreciate your acknowledgement of Japan’s educational frigidity that reflects academical institution’s morbid mind structure that deviates from true investigation of any spiritual truth.
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I appreciate your acknowledgement of Japan’s educational frigidity that reflects academical institution’s morbid mind structure that deviates from true investigation of any spiritual truth.
August 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Respect for Philosophical Tradition and Rigid Collectivism
Query:
I appreciate your acknowledgement of Japan’s educational frigidity that reflects academical institution’s morbid mind structure that deviates from true investigation of any spiritual truth.
Query:
I appreciate your acknowledgement of Japan’s educational frigidity that reflects academical institution’s morbid mind structure that deviates from true investigation of any spiritual truth.
Free Wanton Adhesion to the Text
Query:
Makoto Kuroda didn’t always try to argue and analyze what he studied, instead, he tried to give detailed annotation on the studied text, as shown in his achievements in Annotated Last Unicorn and Annotated Peter and Wendy.
Query:
Makoto Kuroda didn’t always try to argue and analyze what he studied, instead, he tried to give detailed annotation on the studied text, as shown in his achievements in Annotated Last Unicorn and Annotated Peter and Wendy.
August 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Free Wanton Adhesion to the Text
Query:
Makoto Kuroda didn’t always try to argue and analyze what he studied, instead, he tried to give detailed annotation on the studied text, as shown in his achievements in Annotated Last Unicorn and Annotated Peter and Wendy.
Query:
Makoto Kuroda didn’t always try to argue and analyze what he studied, instead, he tried to give detailed annotation on the studied text, as shown in his achievements in Annotated Last Unicorn and Annotated Peter and Wendy.
Amalgamation of Provocative and Analytical Prompts
Query:
Thank you for your acknowledgement for Kuroda’s suggestion that our homepage must be built on divergence principle and for reformulating prior prompts in freer ways.
Query:
Thank you for your acknowledgement for Kuroda’s suggestion that our homepage must be built on divergence principle and for reformulating prior prompts in freer ways.
August 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Amalgamation of Provocative and Analytical Prompts
Query:
Thank you for your acknowledgement for Kuroda’s suggestion that our homepage must be built on divergence principle and for reformulating prior prompts in freer ways.
Query:
Thank you for your acknowledgement for Kuroda’s suggestion that our homepage must be built on divergence principle and for reformulating prior prompts in freer ways.