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# Anime and Manga Studies

Your guide to research into Japanese comics and animation

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- [Who Are the Anime/Manga Studies Publishers - 2025 Essay Collections](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2026/01/25/2025-essay-collections/) - When thinking about the nature of anime and manga studies as a discreet subject area, it is certainly possible to raise a whole range of different questions. For example, in a chapter in the recent 2nd edition of the definitive essay collection Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, Mark McLelland highlights some of the unique challenges of
- [Isao Takahata: A Bibliography of English-Language Scholarship](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/04/05/isao-takahata-a-bibliography-of-english-language-scholarship/) - As several sources have reported, Isao Takahata, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli and the director of five Ghibli feature films films, passed away earlier today. Takahata's output as a creator has always been second to Miyazaki's. Nonetheless, his work, and in particular, Grave of the Fireflies, also received a significant amount of English-language scholarly attention.
- [The "oligopoly of academic publishers" and anime/manga studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/08/22/the-oligopoly-of-academic-publishers-and-animemanga-studies/) - When I am asked to describe my own "academic interests", anime and manga are actually not the first thing that I bring up. Rather, what I am interested in first and foremost is knowledge sharing - the theory behind drives (or prevents) people from sharing their knowledge with others, the actual tools and techniques that
- [Anime/Manga Studies Article Publication Trends - Details](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/10/28/animemanga-studies-article-publication-trends-details/) - A couple of months ago, I presented a fairly straight-forward question - when we talk about anime/manga studies (and even just academic writing on anime/manga in general), how many publications are we actually talking about? A few dozen? Several hundred? More? This led me to draw on the work that I do in compiling the
- [From Akira to Now: Anime/Manga Studies Article Publication Trends - Introduction](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/07/29/from-akira-to-now-introduction/) - Anime/manga studies is, as Mark MacWilliams notes in his introduction to the essay collection Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime, the process and practice of "exploring the historical, cultural, sociological and religious dimensions of Japanese animation and comics, their production, and global reception" from an academic perspective. Having this kind
- [Building an Anime and Manga Studies Bibliography - Tools and methods](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/07/22/building-an-anime-and-manga-studies-bibliography-tools-and-methods/) - It is not easy to make the process of putting together the lists of academic publications on anime/manga that are available in the Bibliographies section of this website sound particularly interesting. But, nonetheless, describing some of the steps in this process can actually be a good demonstration of research skills and techniques - and at
- [Anime Expo 2025 Academic Program Schedule](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/06/12/anime-expo-2025/) - In three weeks, starting on July 3, Anime Expo, the largest Japanese animation and comics convention in the U.S., will once again return to the Los Angeles Convention Center. The AX 2025 schedule is packed with dozens of talks, presentations, premieres, guest appearances, company announcement sessions, and other live events. And, as it has for
- [A Quick Guide to - Anime Market Research Reports](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/08/29/a-quick-guide-to-anime-market-research-reports/) - Anime and manga continue to grow in popularity and reach worldwide. And, in the process, anime and manga - and their audiences - can be the subject of certain particular and very specific kinds of publications that now exists alongside both scholarly monographs and articles on one hand and coverage in magazines, newspapers, and the
- [Call for Papers - Mechademia 2026 Conference: "Traversing Trans-Asian Imaginaries: Anime, Manga, and Media Cultures"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/09/03/call-for-papers-mechademia-2026/) - In a new paper just published in Theory, Culture & Society, Sharon Kinsella makes the point that "Japan and neighbouring Asian states are now conjoined in a transregional visual cultural symbolic language, with relatable though not identical cultural symbolic meanings, based around animation characters and computer games" I would argue that over the last two
- [Call for Papers - Critical Paths in Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/08/21/cfp-critical-paths/) - InTO.MANGA – Critical Paths in Manga StudiesTorino, ItalyJanuary 22-24, 2026 This fall, with two leading university presses each publishing a major new scholarly monograph (Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics by Eike Exner from Yale University Press and Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989 by Andrea Horbinski from University
- [Highlighting New Publications - Translating Cultural References in Japanese Animation Films](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/02/27/highlighting-new-publications-translating-cultural-references/) - Asakura, Kaori. Translating cultural references in Japanese animation films: The case of Spirited Away. Translation Matters, 1(1), 61-81. Looking at "dictionary definitions" of terms may not necessarily lead to conclusive results - a "dictionary definition" is only one possible use of several. Nonetheless, the way a particular term is defined - and what is emphasized
- [American Anime Fans - An Initial Research Guide](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/10/29/american-anime-fans/) - An easy way to approach the presence of anime and manga in the U.S. is to think about "firsts" - the first Japanese animated film to be screened in American movie theaters, the first Japanese cartoon aired on American television, the first anime released on home video, the first published manga, the first anime convention,
- [Interview with the Anime Scholar - Francheska M. González Castro](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/07/12/interview-francheska-m-gonzalez-castro/) - When we think about how scholars typically approach Japanese animation, the approaches that come to mind right away are those that use anime as a text to analyze. Just some noteworthy recent examples include journal articles such as Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008): A cli-fi reading of Japanese anime, in
- [Call for Papers – Mechademia: Second Arc, 19.2 “Graphic Narratives”](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/06/15/cfp-mechademia-second-arc-19-2/) - English-language scholarly writing on Japanese comics is not something that just started last year - or five years ago - or ten. Fred Schodt's Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga, the first book on the topic from a U.S. publisher, appeared in 1996 - and more than a decade earlier, he had already written Manga!
- [Call for Papers – Mechademia: Second Arc, 19.1 “Semiosis/Symbiosis”](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/06/08/cfp-mechademia-second-arc-19-1/) - With the release of the new Summer 2025 Methodologies issue, Mechademia: Second Arc, the major "forum for studying objects and practices that have developed around media forms associated with Japan" is now approaching its twentieth anniversary (although publication was paused in 2016 and 2017). The twenty-three issues that have appeared since the journal first launched,
- [Manga Scholar and Manga Librarian at the Manga Awards!](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/05/31/2025-manga-awards/) - Everybody loves an awards ceremony. And if movies can have the Oscars, Broadway theater can have the Tonys, and comics can have, uh, the Eisner Awards, why should manga feel left out! And, later this summer, the organizers of New York City's Anime NYC convention will be holding a gala awards ceremony for the English-speaking
- [Online Symposium – Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures 2025](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/04/29/queer-and-feminist-perspectives-2025-2/) - First announced at the end of 2023, and running successfully in April of last year, the online symposium Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures represents a major and exciting new stage in the development of Japanese popular culture studies as a vibrant academic field. The 2024 program brought together speakers from academic institutions
- [Call for Interest - Anime and Manga Studies Database](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/09/05/call-for-interest-anime-and-manga-studies-database/) - How do you search for academic journal articles about anime? About the work of Hayao Miyazaki? About Sailor Moon, and about magical girls in Japanese comics in general? About the history of anime fansubbing? Type a couple of words into Google and hope for the best? Type a few words into Google Scholar and hope
- [Call for Book Chapters - Explaining Isekai](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/10/21/call-for-book-chapters-explaining-isekai/) - Anime is not a genre - but considering genres is one of the ways to at least begin critically approaching Japanese animation. In this way, Rayna Denison presents a focus on anime genres "because of the way genres are often seen, like anime, to operate as cultural categories or phenomena". And, as Denison points out,
- [CFP: Studio Ghibli Films as Adaptations](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/07/21/cfp-studio-ghibli-films-as-adaptations/) - Just this week, the latest Studio Ghibli anime feature film - and, now, most likely the final anime to be directed by Hayao Miyazaki, opened in Japan, to both fascination and acclaim. And over the the years, Ghibli's body of work has also attracted significant scholarly interest, with over 20 English-language monographs and essay collections,
- [Highlighting New Publications - The Hentai Streaming Platform Wars](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/03/05/highlighting-new-publications/) - What is the stereotype of Japanese animation? Inevitably, and even now too frequently, it is still "Japanese pornographic animation" - the phrasing Susan Napier used for the title of her chapter as far back as 2000, in the essay collection Word and Image in Japanese Cinema. Thinking about this "locally situated transcultural media form" (using
- [Call for Papers - AX 2025 Academic Symposium: Academics](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/02/26/cfp-ax-2025/) - Anime Expo, the largest anime convention in the U.S., scheduled to run July 3-6 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, will again feature an Academic Program track of presentations and panel discussions, and the Call for Papers for it is now open. Anime Expo 2025 "will be showcasing an Academia theme" - and although submissions
- [Anime/Manga Studies in 2018: The Year in Review](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/01/22/anime-manga-studies-in-2018-the-year-in-review/) - For various reasons, I missed a Year in Review post for 2017. But, with 2018 now several weeks behind us, it is definitely appropriate to review the highlights of the year for anime and manga studies in the broad categories of new and notable publications, conferences and other events, and classes. Books: After a relatively
- [Book Review - The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for the Global Creative Industries](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/12/04/book-review-the-anime-boom/) - Authors: Michal Daliot-Bul (University of Haifa) & Nissim Otmazgin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Publisher: Harvard University Asia CenterContents Twenty years ago now, in Anime From Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, Susan J. Napier presented one leading reason for approaching selecting anime as an object of study. “For those interested in Japanese culture, it is a
- [Call for Papers - 2025 Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/02/24/queer-and-feminist-perspectives-2025/) - Building on the success of the inaugural Symposium, which ran from April 15 to April 17 of last year, and featured over 20 speakers and a range of presentations and panel discussions, scholars and practitioners from around the world are invited to submit papers that will explore topics related to intersections between Japanese popular cultures
- [Online Symposium - Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/04/01/online-symposium/) - The full schedule is now available for the upcoming online symposium Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures, organized by a team of scholars from Concordia University (Canada), UNSW Sydney (Australia) and Tulane University (USA), and supported by the Media, Gender and Sexualities Study Group (University of Tokyo). The goal of the symposium is
- [Japan Foundation New York Panel Discussion - Dragon Ball](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/02/15/dragon-ball/) - When talking about Dragon Ball - the entire Dragon Ball franchise - it is simply hard to find words that will adequately describe its impact and influence in Japan and around the world. When its creator Akira Toriyama, passed away last year, the first sentence of the New York Times obituary was "His popular manga
- [Authors' Roundtable - The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/02/02/authors-roundtable/) - When, in 1999, Susan Napier published her study Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, a scholarly monograph of that kind was both unique and unexpected. It was also foundational to the field of anime studies - and paved the way for the easily several dozen full-length books on anime/manga that have
- [Call for Papers – Journal of Anime and Manga Studies v. 6](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/01/21/call-for-papers-jams-v-6/) - After five volumes and almost 40 individual articles - all open-access - the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies has now firmly positioned itself as one of the most prominent publications in this young but vibrant and growing field. It has consistently welcomed a variety of perspectives and approaches, as well as a decidedly global
- [Comment/Response - Anime in the US: The Entrepreneurial Dimensions of Globalized Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/07/comment-response/) - In one of my first posts in this blog, I raised the question of why there were essentially no English-language academic articles on the "business" of anime - the history of the U.S. anime industry, the specific practices that American anime companies used to succeed, how some of these companies were able to adjust to
- [Anime and Manga Studies in 2024 - Year in Review](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2025/01/02/anime-and-manga-studies-in-2024-year-in-review/) - As we close out 2024 and move into 2025, content providers everywhere online, from Vox to A.V. Club to Anime News Network are publishing year-end summary articles and Best-Of lists. (...and worst-of lists). Here at animemangastudies.com, I do not have either hopes or ambitions to compete with those kinds of content providers - but you
- [Researching the Business of Anime - Crunchyroll](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/02/14/researching-the-business-of-anime-crunchyroll/) - In one sense, an academic approach to anime does not require much beyond access to anime - and access to/familiarity with some kind of theoretical framework to base the approach in and validate it. But, this kind of approach is also exactly what Thomas Lamarre has criticized as exemplifying the "the book report or film
- [Highlighting New Publications: Global Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/07/09/highlighting-new-publications-global-manga/) - Global Manga: "Japanese" Comics Without Japan?, the new essay collection, edited by City University London's Casey Brienza, on the "global cultural phenomenon" of comics that may be presented as manga but are not actually created in Japan, is now available for purchase in hard-cover and e-book formats. *** Special discount: 50% off (hard-cover only) ***
- [Exclusive Preview - Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/06/03/cambridge-companion/) - In the opening pages of the introduction to the textbook Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, first published in 2018 and last year updated in a second edition, the book's editors call Japanese popular culture studies "a field in formation". Support for this assertion is easy to find. Scholarly writing on anime, manga, and other categories of
- [Call for Papers – Mechademia: Second Arc, 18.2 “Studio Ghibli”](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/04/24/call-for-papers-mechademia-second-arc-18-2-studio-ghibli/) - Japanese animation is many things. On the very first page of the excellent Anime: A Critical Introduction, animation scholar Rayna Denison uses the phrase "a shifting, sliding category of media production", and further in the same book Dr. Denison also refers to anime as a "cultural phenomenon". But outside Japan, and especially in Western media,
- [Call for Papers – Mechademia: Second Arc, 18.1 “Death and Other Endings”](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/04/22/cfp-endings/) - In the classic study Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, Susan Napier identifies "the apocalyptic" as one of the three major "modes" of Japanese animation. But this is a relatively narrow approach - a much broader one would move to consider both East Asian popular culture products, expressions, and activities in
- [Call for Papers – Mechademia: Second Arc, 17.1 “Cosplay, Street Fashion, and Subcultural Styles”](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/02/01/call-for-papers-mechademia-second-arc-17-1/) - One concept that, for many people, is probably the most closely associated with anime/manga is cosplay. In turn, studies of cosplay are a major area in anime and manga studies in general - just some prominent examples include Melissa de Zwart, Cosplay, creativity and immaterial labours of love, Joel Gn, Queer simulation: The practice, performance
- [Call for Papers – AX 2024 Academic Symposium: Edo Japan](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/04/04/call-for-papers-ax-2024-academic-symposium-edo-japan/) - Usually - and by their nature - academic conferences are not open to general, non-academic audiences, and for that matter, not really intended for them. But at the same time, nothing requires academic discussions to exclude the public, especially when members of the public may be interested in the same themes and topics that scholars
- [Call for Papers - JAMS no. 1](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/07/01/call-for-papers-jams-no-1/) - Several months ago, I was excited to share news about the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal with a specific focus on Japanese animation, comics, and related topics - the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies. And now, JAMS has officially opened the Call for Papers for its first issue, currently on track to be
- [Call for Papers: "Against Translation"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/10/09/call-for-papers-against-translation/) - It's difficult, and probably outright impossible, to put together any real numbers, but intuitively, I am confident in saying that the manga titles that are licensed for translation into English and commercial publication outside Japan represent only a small percentage of all manga that is actually published in Japan. In turn, this means that unless
- [Call for Papers - Eyes Unclouded: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/02/15/call-for-papers-eyes-unclouded/) - 2019 Contemporary Directors SymposiumEyes Unclouded: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio GhibliLewes Depot Cinema, Lewes, UKMay 8, 2019 Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli will be the focus of the 2019 Contemporary Directors Symposium, organized by the University of Sussex (UK) Centre for Photography and Visual Culture. Prof. Rayna Denison, a leading scholar of Miyazaki
- [Call for Papers - AX 2019 Academic Symposium: Anime Chronotopes](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/02/13/call-for-papers-ax-2019/) - After a one-year hiatus, Anime Expo®, the largest anime convention in the U.S., will once again feature a dedicated track of academic panel programming, including lectures, presentations, and roundtable discussions. The goal of the Anime Expo Academic Symposium (AXAS) is to give scholars working in the field of anime and manga studies to to share
- [Call for Papers – Mechademia: Second Arc, 13.2 “Soundscapes”](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/01/19/call-for-papers-mechademia-second-arc-13-2-soundscapes/) - In a few weeks, the University of Minnesota Press will launch the new Mechademia: Second Arc series of books - the successor to its Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and Fan Arts titles that appeared between 2006 and 2015. This first volume's theme will be "Childhood", the next two, "Transnational Fandoms" and "Materialities Across
- [Call for Papers - The Waseda Symposium on Demon Slayer (鬼滅の刃)](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/12/05/call-for-papers-the-waseda-symposium-on-demon-slayer/) - One of the last places I expect to see a mention of a "smash-hit Japanese comic book" is the business section of the New York Times. And yet, on October 20, the Times highlighted the unexpected and unparalleled success of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train, which set a new box
- [Call for Book Chapters - "Libraries/Archives/Librarians in Comics"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/09/02/call-for-book-chapters-libraries-archives-librarians-in-comics/) - "The editors of a new collection of articles/essays are seeking essays about the portrayal of libraries, archives and librarians in graphic novels, comic strips, and sequential art/comics. The librarian and the library have a long and varied history in sequential art. Steven M. Bergson's popular website LIBRARIANS IN COMICS is a useful reference source and a
- [Researching the Business of Anime - Resources and Thoughts](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/02/researching-the-business-of-anime-resources-and-thoughts/) - In the opening chapter of The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation, Thomas Lamarre identifies what he calls “the book report or film review model” of writing on Japanese animation – “a summary of the major narrative in conjunction with a consideration of major themes”. He does not dismiss this approach, and acknowledges it
- ['Manga/Comics and Translation' Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/03/24/mangacomics-and-translation-symposium/) - The process of translation - and the work of translators - presents manga scholars with a wide range of questions to ask. What is translated? How do translators in different countries approach manga - Peter Howell asks this question in Strategy and style in English and French translations of Japanese comic books, and Martin de
- ['Alternative Manga' Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/03/16/alternative-manga-symposium/) - On April 7, Baruch College (City University of New York) will host Alt-Manga: Alternative Manga Symposium. The full program is still in development, but it will include presentations by Shige Suzuki (Baruch College), George Tsouris (LaGuardia Community College), in conversation with manga artist Akino Kondoh, and blogger/manga industry professional Erica Friedman. The Symposium is receiving
- ['Cats, Single Ladies, and Manga: Feminist Fantasies of Cohabitation in East Asian Discourses' lecture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/03/29/cats-single-ladies-and-manga/) - Over the past ten or so years, the Japanese program at Baruch College (City University of New York) has hosted a series of mini-seminars and talks by individual speakers on topics related to Japanese animation and comics. The series started in 2015 with Globalized Manga Culture and Fandom and continued with Alt Manga: Alternative Manga
- ['Untold History of Japanese Comics: Prewar & LGBTQ+ Manga' Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/04/05/untold-history-of-japanese-comics/) - Continuing its series of public talks on major topics in manga studies - and expanding the range of topics that scholars who work in the field present to public audiences - the Japanese Program at Baruch College (City University of New York) has announced the latest one in the series. The theme for the talk,
- [Highlighting Upcoming Publications - "Manga: A Critical Guide"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/04/04/highlighting-upcoming-publications-manga-a-critical-guide/) - One of the biggest paradoxes in the way the literature of manga studies has developed since the first English-language publications on Japanese comics began appearing in the 1970's has been a trend towards research on more and more narrow and specialized topics. In this way, Fred Schodt's 1996 Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga is
- [Highlighting New Journals - East Asian Journal of Popular Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/04/04/highlighting-new-journals-east-asian-journal-of-popular-culture/) - As I have noted just recently, anime/manga studies as an academic area does not yet have a defined group of "core" journals that are considered to be the area's most important or most authoritative. Nonetheless, it's possible to identify journals that, at least subjectively, can be considered "important" to anime/manga studies. In fact, in Journals
- [New Issue: East Asian Journal of Popular Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/08/21/new-issue-east-asian-journal-of-popular-culture/) - Earlier this year, when the new East Asian Journal of Popular Culture published its first issue, I was pleased to profile it as a potential new venue for academic writing on a wide range of topics related to Japanese animation and Japanese comics. In fact, the first issue already included two papers dealing with manga
- [The Animation Journal - 25 Years of Contribution to Animation Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/08/28/the-animation-journal-25-years-of-contribution-to-animation-studies/) - The establishment of one or more focused academic journals is commonly considered to be one of the major features of academic fields - rather than merely "areas of interest". In this way, the Journal of Asian Studies "has played a defining role in the field of Asian studies for nearly 70 years", and Japan Forum,
- [Resource Review - Reviews of Peer-Reviewed Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/06/11/resource-review-reviews-of-peer-reviewed-journals-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/) - The end goal of "academic writing" is not just producing a piece of writing that follows a particular format and style. Rather, the end goal - at least once you as the author are no longer writing simply to fulfill a class requirement - is a piece of writing that can then be published in
- [Comment/Response - “Do female anime fans exist?”...](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/01/31/comment-response-do-female-anime-fans-exist/) - Any kind of writing about anime will at some point have to consider anime's audiences and their activities and practices. And in fact, studies that ask questions like "what anime fans do, and how, and why" are prominent in the field. As far back as 1994, writing for the journal Bad Subjects: Political Education for
- [Highlighting New Publications: Anime Fan Communities](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/05/highlighting-new-publications-anime-fan-communities/) - As an academic field, anime studies may not be quite as "hot" as it was a few years ago, at the height of the anime boom/bubble, when it could very well seem that images drawn from Japan were everywhere in Western visual culture. And even though that bubble burst, and Japanese animation is nowhere near
- [Comment/Response - Building a Japanese Manga Collection for Nontraditional Patrons](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/08/31/comment-response-building-a-japanese-manga-collection/) - Comics, graphic novels, and manga have a place in libraries. The Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association compiles a yearly Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, and just some of the recent books on comics/graphic novels/manga that are targeted specifically at librarians include Graphic Novels Beyond the Basics: Insights and
- [Comment/Response - The contradictions of pop nationalism in the manga Gate](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/08/17/comment-response-gate/) - A key feature of scholarly writing as a "genre" is that a new contribution to scholarship on a topic does not just stand by itself, but builds on previous contributions, and in a way, engages in a conversation with them. This feature can be seen in the literature review sections of new scholarly articles, as
- [Highlighting New Publications - JAMS v. 4](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/01/21/highlighting-new-publications-jams-v-4/) - When it first launched in 2020, the open-access Journal of Anime and Manga Studies represented a major new development in the establishment of anime and manga studies as a defined academic field. Since the launch, it clearly thrived, with each new issue a range of new authors, and covering a diverse array of topics under
- [Call for Papers - Journal of Anime and Manga Studies v. 2](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/12/07/call-for-papers-jams-v-2/) - In their editors' introduction to the essay collection ("designed as a comprehensive undergraduate and graduate textbook") Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, Alisa Freedman and Toby Slate refer to Japanese popular culture studies as "a field in formation". Classes on different aspects and dimensions of Japanese popular culture are now fairly common at American colleges, and scholars
- [New Journal Launch - Journal of Anime and Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/03/24/new-journal-launch-journal-of-anime-and-manga-studies/) - One of the most well-defined features of an academic field is a journal that brings together the work of scholars who produce and publish research on a particular topic and presents it to readers. The existence of a journal means that there is enough research being published on a topic to support one, and the
- [Subject Bibliography - Scott Pilgrim](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/02/28/subject-bibliography-scott-pilgrim/) - One question that is necessarily central to any kind of academic discussion about manga is, simply, "what do we actually mean by 'manga'?" How we define or operationalize the term directly influences the scope of any such discussion. And indeed, many of the scholars and other commentators who write about manga do take the time
- [Book Review - Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/11/24/book-review-manga-introduction-challenges-and-best-practices/) - Editor: Melinda BeasiPublisher: Dark Horse Comics (Milwaukee, OR)ISBN: 1616552786 / 9781616552787 U.S. comics companies first began publishing translated versions of Japanese comics (manga) in the late 1980’s. Since then, the manga market has evolved, reached amazing heights (in the spring of 2007, a volume of Fruits Basket rose to the no. 15 spot on the weekly
- [Interview with the Author - Comics and the Origins of Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/08/02/interview-with-the-author/) - On July 22, Comic-Con International announced the winners of this year's Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. And, for the first time in the history of the Eisners, the award in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category went to a book on sequential art in Japan - Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History, by
- [Interview with the Anime Scholar - Dr. Bill Ellis](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/01/16/bill-ellis-interview/) - Several weeks ago, the American Folklore Society, the leading organization for the study and advancement of folklore and expressive cultural traditions wordwide, broadly defined, announced that its 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award was being bestowed on Dr. Bill Ellis, emeritus professor, Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Ellis is a pre-eminent folklore scholar - and, over the last
- [Manga Subgenres - The GNCRT View](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/01/15/manga-subgenres-the-gncrt-view/) - How do we categorize different kinds of Japanese comics? What categories or labels do we use? For that matter, who even decides what categories or labels we even have access to? These questions are provocative, but as it turns out, they are not rhetorical. Outside Japan, and particularly in the U.S., there are actually specific
- [The Shortcomings and "Blind Spots" of Anime and Manga Studies - a survey of the critical commentary](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/01/20/the-shortcomings-and-blind-spots/) - Recently, a colleague passed around a call for "more good scholarship on shonen as a genre" and voiced frustration with how little such scholarship currently exists - essentially the only one that addresses the genre as a whole, rather than specific works, is Angela Drummond-Matthews' "What Boys Will Be: A Study of Shonen Manga" (in
- [Highlighting New Publications - Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/12/10/princess-mononoke/) - Editor: Rayna DenisonPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicTable of Contents When, on October 29, 1999, Princess Mononoke premiered in U.S. theaters, Hayao Miyazaki was not completely unknown to American audiences, but he was still far from being the worldwide-famous director that is now. And neither audiences nor critics really knew what to expect from the film itself, either.
- [Highlighting New Publications – The Task of Manga Translation](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/01/24/the-task-of-manga-translation/) - The question of how exactly to refer to anime/manga studies - as an academic discipline, a field, an area of interest - is easy to ask, perhaps even inevitable. And it certainly puts "anime/manga studies" into good company - this same kind of question has come up time and time again in relation to topics
- ["But I don't know Japanese" - "Global English" and anime and manga studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/03/16/but-i-dont-know-japanese-global-english-and-anime-and-manga-studies/) - The theme for the upcoming Spring 2025 issue of Mechademia: Second Arc will be "methodologies" - such as "theoretical frameworks" and "methods of analysis". The Call for Papers for the issue lists several potential topics to consider and questions to ask in connection with this broad theme, and one of these questions is "What hampers
- [Call for Contributors - Anime and Manga Studies Response Essays](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/01/27/call-for-contributors-anime-and-manga-studies-response-essays/) - "Japanese popular culture studies is a field in formation", note Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade in the opening chapter of Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, the first volume on the topic that is specifically designed as a textbook. The same statement can be extended to anime and manga studies as well. And as the field of
- [One Piece in Anime and Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/01/07/one-piece-in-anime-and-manga-studies/) - One of the most memorable anime-related events of 2023 was the worldwide Netflix launch of a live-action series adapting the long-running One Piece manga and anime series, by far one of the most successful and globally recognized entertainment properties of all time in any medium. As could be expected, viewers were initially cautious about just
- [Comment/Response - Found in Translation](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/04/04/comment-response-found-in-translation/) - How Japanese animation actually reaches audiences outside Japan has been a major topic in anime studies going back to the field's earliest days, such as with Jonathan Clements' essay “The mechanics of the US anime and manga industry”, in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 64, 32-44 (1995). Interest in this topic surged in
- [Call for Papers - Journal of Anime and Manga Studies v. 5](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/01/06/call-for-papers/) - Since its launch in 2020, the open-access Journal of Anime and Manga Studies has quickly established itself as the leading scholarly publication for this emerging field. Over the four issues that have been published so far, JAMS has attracted a wide array of articles, representing diverse perspectives and approaches, as well as a significant diversity
- [Makoto Shinkai - A Bibliography of English-language Scholarly Writing](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2024/01/03/makoto-shinkai-bibliography/) - The start of the year's movie awards season is always a good opportunity to reflect back on what the year has offered to audiences in terms of anime - and what anime continues to offer to viewers. This year, understandably, much of the attention that was directed towards new Japanese animated feature films went to
- [Book Review - Manga: A Critical Guide](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/04/19/book-review-manga-a-critical-guide/) - [Ed. note: Book publishers rarely make an effort to promote new books on topics like manga. Guess leaves it up to people like me, who are interested in these kinds of books, to promote!] Shige (CJ) Suzuki and Ronald StewartBloomsbury Academic, 2022, 280 pages.[Amazon] --- [Bloomsbury USA] This is a pre-peer review preprint of an
- [Call for Papers: Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Pop](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/12/18/call-for-papers-queer-and-feminist-perspectives-on-japanese-pop/) - Abstract Submission Deadline:February 1 Notification of Acceptance:February 15 Dates: Mid-April, 2024 (dates tbc)Format: Online (Zoom)In order to facilitate multiple timezones, the event will start at 8am EST/9pm JST Organizers:- Aurélie Petit, Concordia University, Canada- Megan Catherine Rose, UNSW Sydney, Australia- Edmond Ernest dit Alban, Tulane University, United States of America Supported by: Media, Gender, and
- [Satoshi Kon (1963-2010) - An Anime Studies Retrospective](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/12/25/satoshi-kon-1963-2010-an-anime-studies-retrospective/) - When, around Christmas, journalists and other commentators discuss what they consider to be the most memorable depictions of the holidays and related themes in "global cinema", one title that consistently finds its way into these discussions is an anime film - Tokyo Godfathers, directed by Satoshi Kon. Kon, tragically passed away from pancreatic cancer on
- [College Classes on Anime and Manga - Spring 2024](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/12/26/college-classes-on-anime-and-manga-spring-2024/) - Just as the idea of a scholarly monograph or a peer-reviewed journal article on anime is long past being anything unusual or controversial, so is the idea of a college class on Japanese animation or Japanese comics. These kinds of classes are now offered at many different kinds of colleges/universities - and how they are
- [Seizures Induced by Pokemon Episode: A Bibliography](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/10/20/seizures-induced-by-pokemon-episode-a-bibliography/) - On Wednesday, December 17, 1997, newspapers and other media - first in Japan and then around the world - reported that the previous evening, several hundred children were hospitalized after experiencing various symptoms, including convulsions/seizures, while watching an episode of the Pokemon anime series. The initial coverage, such as by BBC, CNN, and Reuters, was
- [Roundtable – Welcome to Anime/Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/11/08/roundtable-welcome-to-anime-manga-studies/) - TUESDAY, November 212:00 p.m. (Eastern time)https://tinyurl.com/mvzedsxm (Zoom) - Ever thought about writing a college paper on themes and images in Attack on Titan?- Wanted to take a class on the history of girls’ manga?- Are intrigued by a book on the many different ways that Japanese manga authors have adapted characters and images from Alice in Wonderland?
- [Japan Foundation Presents - Mecha-Anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/11/03/japan-foundation-presents-mecha-anime/) - In Anime: A Critical Introduction, Rayna Denison uses the phrases "a cultural phenomenon" and "a sliding, shifting category of media production" to describe Japanese animation. When we think about anime this way, it's also only natural to consider different genres within anime - one of the most iconic is "mecha" - in the definition that
- [Help Wanted - Anime Professor!](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/10/26/help-wanted-anime-professor/) - Who are the participants in "Japanese popular culture studies"? Not in the abstract sense, but more concretely - if Japanese popular culture studies is an academic area or field or discipline, do those who are involved in it identify themselves as "professors of Japanese popular culture studies"? For that matter, is such a thing as
- [Special Feature - The "I Am Not Alone" Controversy](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/09/07/special-feature/) - On April 26, the academic journal Qualitative Research published a "research note" by University of Manchester Japanese Studies PhD student Karl Andersson with the title "I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan". For the next several months, the paper sat
- [Book Review - Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/07/17/book-review-manga-cultures-and-the-female-gaze/) - English-language writing on Japanese comics is not by any means a new thing or even a recent thing. Fred Schodt’s Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics is 40 years old this year, and a couple of journal articles and book chapters are even older. But if we look at the way book length studies
- ['Manga in a Postdigital Environment' Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/05/27/manga-in-a-postdigital-environment-symposium/) - On May 30-31, Universida de Vigo, Pontevedra Campus, will host an international academic symposium entitled Manga in a Postdigital Environment. The symposium, organized by the research group DX5 is open to the public, and also will be broadcast online via Zoom. For additional information, including registration instructions, please contact grupodx5@uvigo.es. The full program will consist
- [Manga in the 2023 Eisner Award Nominations - and 2012-2023](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/05/30/manga-in-the-2023-eisner-award-nominations-and-2012-2023/) - On May 17, the organizers of Comic-Con International: San Diego announced the nominees for this year's Eisner Awards (for materials published in 2022) - officially the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Although the Eisner Awards are generally known for honoring specific comics and the work of specific comics artists and writers, since 2012, one of
- [Anime and Manga Symposium Archives - 2011](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/10/anime-and-manga-symposium-archives-2011/) - By 2011, anime and manga studies as an academic field was definitely coming into its own, with a number of books, dozens of classes, an annual conference (Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits, at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), and even an annual journal dedicated to "anime, manga and the fan arts". What anime and manga
- [I Want to Know More – Books on Anime/Manga: A Guided Tour, Part 2](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/07/28/i-want-to-know-more-books-on-animemanga-a-guided-tour-part-2/) - In a previous post, I highlighted several books that I think are the best to recommend for someone who really knows almost nothing about Japanese animation/Japanese comics, and wants an introduction that is both accessible and reasonably comprehensive. The titles that I profiled - among them Anime: A Critical Introduction, Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern
- [Highlighting New Publications - JAMS v. 3](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/01/31/highlighting-new-publications-jams-v-3/) - I think it's safe to say we are comfortably past the point where the appearance of a new scholarly article on a topic related to anime/manga is something remarkable or extraordinary. As other scholars have already noted - and as I have worked to demonstrate - "anime and manga studies" (or the broader area of
- [Studying Satoshi Kon - The Numbers](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/01/10/studying-satoshi-kon-the-numbers/) - The academic area of interest of "anime studies" welcomes many different approaches and even methods. But fairly consistently, authors who study Japanese animation have drawn on approaches based in auteur theory to emphasize the importance of particular creators/directors. anime, as a form of postmodern popular culture, can be best understood in the West through a
- [Call for Papers - Mechademia: Second Arc, 17.2 "Methodologies"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/01/04/call-for-papers-mechademia-second-arc-17-2/) - Since its relaunch in 2018, with a more ambitious twice-a-year publication schedule and an expanded scope on "East Asian popular cultures, broadly conceived", Mechademia has established itself as the leading publication in the anime and manga studies space. Eight issues have been published so far, featuring both original essays, and translations of major previously published
- [Neon Genesis Evangelion: A Bibliography of English Language Scholarship](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/06/28/neon-genesis-evangelion-a-bibliography-of-english-language-scholarship/) - It's definitely not every week and not every month that New York Magazine, The New Yorker and Vox pay attention to Japanese animation. But, of course, if there is ever an anime - not directed by Hayao Miyazaki or Mamoru Oshii - that would qualify for coverage in a mainstream English-language publication, Neon Genesis Evangelion,
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2009 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/05/26/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2009-ed/) - Since launching this project over a year ago, a significant portion of my work has gone towards presenting materials - such as lists of recent academic publications on anime/manga, that until now, have not been available anywhere publicly. With the lists now complete going back to 2010 - I can begin moving into the project's
- [2022 in Review in Anime and Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2023/01/02/2022-in-review-in-anime-and-manga-studies/) - The start of the new year implies many things, but for websites that deal with news, the start of a new year often implies "year in review" articles summarizing some of the previous year's major trends and highlighting major events. And, surprising as it may be, when we look back at 2022 in terms of
- [2012 Anime/Manga Studies Bibliography](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/10/13/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2012-ed/) - Continuing my work in building a comprehensive list of published English-language scholarship on Japanese animation and comics, the anime/manga industry, and the activities of anime/manga fans around the world, I have now completed the Annual Bibliography for 2012. It contains 93 individual titles - among them, eight new books, including the highly regarded and well-reviewed
- [Call for Papers - Mechademia 2023 Conference: "Aftermath"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/11/10/call-for-papers-mechademia-2023-conference-aftermath/) - Mechademia 2023 - AftermathKyoto International Manga MuseumMay 27 - May 29, 2023 Originally launched at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design as "Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits", the annual Mechademia conference is now a premier site for new research on a wide range of topics related to Japanese popular culture, including anime and manga, but also
- [College Classes on Anime/Manga - Fall 2022 Update](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/08/03/college-classes-on-anime-manga-fall-2022/) - Over the last several years, one of the regular updates that I have added to this site has been a list of new classes at colleges/universities around the U.S. that specifically focus on Japanese animation and Japanese comics. Some examples of these classes include "Transnational Anime: Japanese Animation History and Theory" at Washington State University
- [Mechademia June 2022 - Migration and Transition](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/07/22/mechademia-june-2022/) - When in 2001, the Minneapolis College of Art & Design hosted a "Weekend Intensive study in the culture and creation of Japanese Manga (Comics) and Anime (Animation)" under the title Schoolgirls & Mobilesuits, it was one of the first events of its kind anywhere in the world. In the more than 20 years that have
- [2022 Eisner Awards – Manga Studies Nominee](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/07/18/2022-eisner-awards/) - This coming weekend, the organizers of Comic-Con International (returning as a live event after a two-year hiatus) will announce the winners of the 2022 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, established with the goal of "bringing attention to and highlighting the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels". For a number of years now,
- [Thoughts and Comments - 100 Animated Feature Films](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/07/14/100-animated-feature-films/) - Over the years, the British Film Institute (BFI) has established itself as one of the leading publishers in the field of anime studies, with Akira, Grave of the Fireflies, and Spirited Away in its BFI Film Classics line, 100 Anime in the BFI Screen Guides, and Anime: A History, Jonathan Clements' in-depth examination of how animation was
- [Who are the anime/manga scholars? - a 2022 update](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2022/04/27/who-are-the-anime-manga-scholars-2022/) - As anime and manga studies continues to establish itself, developing from simply an area of interest to an established academic field, one of the questions that has to be asked time and time again is not just what is the definition of anime and manga studies, but what are its actual features and characteristics. "Where"
- [Highlighting Upcoming Publications - "Essential Anime"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2021/10/07/highlighting-upcoming-publications-essential-anime/) - What kinds of formats does writing on Japanese animation appear in? Full-length books, essays on a common theme, individual chapters in edited collections, and articles in peer-reviewed journals all represent the more "scholarly" type of writing on anime, while plenty of blogs still present individual writers' individual perspectives. The mainstream press does pay attention to
- [English-Language Scholarship on Osamu Tezuka - Looking at the Numbers](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2021/01/23/osamu-tezuka-looking/) - If Japanese popular culture studies (and anime/manga studies) is now, in 2021, "a field in formation", then it is no longer enough just to describe or even analyze. At this point, it is becoming more and important to start thinking about the contours and dimensions of this field, and about what this field encompasses. What
- [2020 Eisner Awards - Manga Studies Nominee](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/06/11/2020-eisner-awards-manga-studies-nominee/) - The organizers of the San Diego Comic Convention / Comic-Con International have announced the titles and individuals nominated for the 2020 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in various categories, including Best Scholarly/Academic Work. And, for the second time since the category was first introduced in 2012, one of the books nominated in it specifically deals
- [Comics Studies Society 2019 Prizes – Nominations Open](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/02/17/comics-studies-society-2019-prizes-nominations-open/) - The Comics Studies Society, has announced the launch of the Comics Studies Society Prizes 2020, its program to formally recognize academic research and other scholarly activities on and related to comics - broadly defined - that took place in the previous year. This will be the third time the Society will award the prizes, and
- [Highlighting New Publications - Japanese Manga in Translation and American Graphic Novels in Academic Libraries](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/05/24/highlighting-new-publications-japanese-manga-in-translation-and-american-graphic-novels-in-academic-libraries/) - Do academic libraries include comics broadly defined, including graphic novels and manga, in their collections? The basic idea that they can - and should - is long past being controversial to any extent. In 2006, the co-authors of Graphic novels in academic libraries: From Maus to manga and beyond were able to highlight both the
- [Highlighting New Resources - Japanese Media and Popular Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/05/21/highlighting-new-resources-japanese-media-and-popular-culture/) - If a student - or even a professor - is interested in a broad and general overview of "Japanese popular culture", what kinds of basic starting points can they use to begin familiarizing themselves with what the concept actually encompasses? One such starting point is the recent A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From
- [Highlighting New Publications - Considerations for Collecting Japanese Anime for Academic Libraries](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/05/19/highlighting-new-publications-considerations-for-collecting-japanese-anime-for-academic-libraries/) - Masuchika, Glenn. Considerations for collecting Japanese anime for academic libraries. Collection and Curation, 39(2), 53-56. The idea that academic libraries can include Japanese animation in their collections of films and television series is neither new nor controversial. The purpose of an academic library is to serve its user community, and to facilitate effective teaching and research -
- [Guest Essay: Towards A New Posthuman Ontology - The Anti-Anthropocentrism of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/05/06/guest-essay-towards-a-new-posthuman/) - From the editor: So far, the primary purpose of this site has been to serve as a "central point of information about anime and manga studies", and a collection of resources that would be useful to the anime and manga studies community. However, I also gladly welcome new material, such as actual original commentary on
- [Publication Trends in Anime and Manga Studies - 2019](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/02/06/publication-trends-in-anime-and-manga-studies-2019/) - Let's say, you are someone who wants to take the next step, beyond just thinking about anime, and beyond writing about anime for a personal blog or a fan website, and would like to actually publish your writing about anime (or manga, or a related topic) an academic journal, the kind that college professors would
- [Call for Papers: "Anime and Manga Fandom Before 2000"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/02/16/call-for-papers-anime-and-manga-fandom-before-2000/) - Japanese animation came to the U.S. in the early 1960's, with the first television broadcasts of Astro Boy. But it took several dozen years for anime fandom to develop outside Japan, and actual descriptions of how anime/manga fandom around the world developed between the 1960's and the 1990's are still few and far between. How
- [New Special Issue - Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2020/01/30/new-special-issue-journal-of-adaptation/) - A key feature of Japanese visual popular culture, and especially anime and manga, is the extent to which creative works exist in different forms or formats. A work can - and frequently does - first appear as a manga, and may then serve as the basis of an anime series, a novel, video games, and
- ["What do we study?": A content analysis of recent anime and manga studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/12/20/what-do-we-study-a-content-analysis-of-recent-anime-and-manga-studies/) - In "Global and Local Materialiaties of Anime", her contribution to the essay collection Television, Japan, and Globalization (Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2010), Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano presented what I still think is one of the sharpest criticisms of "anime studies" as it comes together as an academic field: With anime studies as a
- [Highlighting New Publications - Mechademia: Second Arc](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/11/19/highlighting-new-publications-mechademia-second-arc/) - One of the most powerful steps in the development process of a new academic field is the launch of a journal to collect and present new scholarly writing in the field. If nothing else, a journal means that enough scholars are interested in a particular topic area or on a particular subject to support the
- ["Where do I start?": Anime/Manga Studies in Major Multidisciplinary Databases - A Preliminary Study](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/10/17/where-do-i-start/) - A few days ago, I received an e-mail from a graduate student asking for suggestions about "an area in the field of anime & manga that deserves more exploration or doesn't have enough research at the moment". Not an uncommon question by any means, especially in the middle of a fall semester - and one
- [Int'l Anime Research Project - 2019 Anime Survey](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/08/27/intl-anime-research-project-2019-anime-survey/) - The primary focus of anime and manga studies as an academic area is on the texts/works of Japanese animation and Japanese comics themselves - their meanings, their interpretations, and how they are perceived by audiences. So a "typical" study in this field is something like The altered shall inherit the Earth: Biopower and the disabled
- ['What is Manga' British Library Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/08/16/what-is-manga-british-library-symposium/) - One of this year's major cultural events related to Japan has been the Manga exhibition hosted by the British Museum - "the largest exhibition of manga ever to take place outside of Japan." It opened on May 23, and immediately received significant critical attention. The Economist praised it as a "dynamic, exuberant and ambitious celebration
- [Anime Expo 2019 Academic Program](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/06/29/anime-expo-2019-academic-program/) - In a few days, Anime Expo, the largest convention in the U.S. for fans of Japanese popular culture broadly defined will once again return to the Los Angeles Convention Centere, where it will run from July 3 to July 7. AX's live programming schedule is packed with a line-up of panels and workshops - and,
- [Highlighting New Publications - Interpreting Anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/06/24/highlighting-new-publications-interpreting-anime/) - Until recently, the options open to anyone looking for a general text on Japanese animation - one that could serve as a general explanation and summary, and an introduction to more in-depth approaches and readings - have been relatively limited. Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke, first published in 2000 and updated in 2005, certainly
- [Anime and Manga at the PCA 2019 Annual Conference](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/03/22/anime-and-manga-at-the-pca-2019-annual-conference/) - The annual conference of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) brings together scholars whose research involves a very wide range of topics across many different subject areas - "adolescence", "animation", "fan culture & theory", "science fiction and fantasy", "visual culture", and literally dozens more. The 2019 Annual Conference will be held in Washington, DC, from April
- [Defining Anime and Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/03/10/defining-anime-and-manga-studies/) - This year marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of the essay collection Japanese Popular Culture (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co.), which contained what I believe are the first two English-language scholarly essays on Japanese comics. As with the other chapters in the volume, both are actually translations of articles that had already previously
- [Guest Response Essay: Kawaii Aesthetics from Japan to Europe](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/03/01/guest-response-essay-kawaii-aesthetics-from-japan-to-europe/) - Earlier this year, I announced a Call for Contributors inviting "essay submissions responding to any other article-length scholarship on anime/manga or related topics published in English in the last five years". These kinds of short essays would, I believe, add an important new dimension to the developing field of anime and manga studies by encouraging
- [Highlighting Upcoming Publications: Leiji Matsumoto](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/02/28/highlighting-upcoming-publications-leiji-matsumoto/) - Among the creators who have essentially defined the course of Japanese comics and animation through the entire second half of the 20th century, and now, for two decades into the 21st, Leiji Matsumoto ranks at the very top - second only to Osamu Tezuka. But, for many reasons, audiences outside of Japan are still largely
- [Comics Studies Society 2018 Prizes - Nominations Open](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/01/28/comics-studies-society-2018-prizes-nominations-open/) - Just about a year ago, the Comics Studies Society, itself just founded in 2014, announced the launch of one of its major projects - four annual prizes to recognize "outstanding contributions to the study of comic art" in the form of monographs, journal articles and chapters in edited collections, "public scholarship" (i.e., contributions to non-academic
- [Manga Studies in the 2019 Eisner Awards - Eligibility](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2019/01/07/manga-studies-in-the-2019-awards-eligibility/) - The first months of the new year are, among other things, awards season - definitely for television and film (and animation), with the Golden Globes now finished, the Annie Awards coming up next month, and of course then the Oscars. The academic world does not and will never have anything like these awards ceremonies, but
- [New College Classes on Anime/Manga - Spring 2019](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/12/24/new-college-classes-on-anime-manga-spring-2019/) - With another academic term now finished, it's once again a good time to highlight how colleges around the U.S. are actively including anime and manga in their course offerings! At this point, in of itself, a class on anime/manga is no longer anything particularly unusual - since Susan Napier taught what was likely the first
- [Intersections: Fan Studies in Conversation in Japan Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/12/11/intersections-fan-studies-in-conversation-in-japan-symposium/) - Sunday, December 16 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Sophia University Yotsuya Campus - Building no. 2, Room 1702 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554 JAPAN As an academic field, fan/fandom studies is robust and well-established - with its current state covered by comprehensive surveys such as Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, 2nd Edition
- [Anime/Manga Studies Article Publication Trends - A 2018 Update](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/11/12/anime-manga-studies-article-publication-trends-a-2018-update/) - Two years ago, I examined the "publication trends" in anime/manga studies by tracking the actual number of articles on anime/manga that have appeared in English-language academic journals starting in 1993 and through 2015. At that point, I was able to identify 965 such articles - though of course, the determination of what exactly constitutes an
- [Kumoricon 2018 Anime and Manga Studies - Final Schedule](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/10/22/kumoricon-2018-anime-and-manga-studies-final-schedule/) - For the first time, the program for this year's Kumoricon anime convention, which will run from Friday, October 26 to Sunday, October 28 at the Oregon Convention Center is going to include a track of academic panels and lectures under the heading Kumoricon Anime and Manga Studies (KAMS). As described by its organizers, "KAMS is
- [Academic Hoaxes, "Sokal Squared", and Anime and Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/10/18/academic-hoaxes/) - It is rare to see any kind of discussion of academic publishing in mainstream media. Probably predictably, if academic journals are mentioned in general-interest newspapers it is probably because of some kind of controversy. And this is currently the case with the "Sokal Squared" hoax and the responses to it. The hoax itself, as disclosed
- [Highlighting new publications - Miyazakiworld](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/10/13/highlighting-new-publications-miyazakiworld/) - To Western audiences, Japanese animation still largely means the feature films produced by Studio Ghibli and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. And Western animation scholars also focus on Miyazaki and Ghibli extensively - just some recent examples include two of the four volumes published so far in Bloomsbury's Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers series, the articles in the
- [Papers on Anime/Manga in New Voices in Japanese Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/08/30/papers-on-anime-manga-in-new-voices-in-japanese-studies/) - As I've mentioned several times already, one of the inevitable challenges that faces anyone who is seeking to publish their research on anime/manga in a peer-reviewed academic journal is simply selecting a journal to submit to - especially given that there is nothing out there, at least right now, like a "Journal of Anime/Manga Studies".
- [New Resource - The Core Journals of Anime/Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/08/21/new-resource-the-core-journals-of-anime-manga-studies/) - One of the pages that visitors to this site arrive from consistently is a question posted on anime.stackexchange.com about "any places that regularly publish anime or manga related academic papers?" Almost two years ago, I provided a basic answer to it there. Now, I am happy to announce a new addition to the Anime and
- [Manga at the Comics Studies Society 1st Annual Conference](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/08/13/manga-at-the-comics-studies-society-1st-annual-conference/) - Regardless of how one thinks about the idea of "manga studies" specifically, the idea of "comics studies" in general as an established academic field is long past being in any way controversial. The field is now covered by major commercial and academic presses - including several with dedicated series such as Bloomsbury Comics Studies, Comics
- [English-Language Scholarship on Studio Ghibli Films: Looking at the Numbers](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/05/11/english-language-scholarship-on-studio-ghibli-films-looking-at-the-numbers/) - One of the paradoxes of scholarship in the humanities is that often, some questions that seem straightforward do not actually have simple answers. In fact, even coming up with an answer to some questions may be difficult, if not impossible. For example, it is relatively easy to demonstrate that a particular book or comic or
- [Call for Papers - Kumoricon Anime and Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/05/10/call-for-papers-kumoricon-anime-and-manga-studies/) - Kumoricon Anime and Manga Studies - 'Intertextual Anime' Kumoricon 2018 Portland, OR October 26-28 When, in 2012, I first reached out to the organizers of Anime Expo - then and still the largest anime convention in the U.S. - with a proposal to introduce a track of formal academic lectures, presentations, and panel discussions into
- [I Want to Know More: Books on Anime/Manga, Part 3 – Essay Collections](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/03/20/i-want-to-know-more-books-on-anime-manga-part-3-essay-collections/) - The monograph written by a single author and the article published in a peer-reviewed journal are two of the most common forms or formats of academic writing, and the ones that readers are generally the most intuitively familiar with. But they are not the only possible formats - another major one is a collection of
- [Resource Review – Database for Animation Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/01/15/resource-review-database-for-animation-studies/) - A simple and straight-forward question to ask when conducting any kind of academic research is - where do I start looking for materials on my topic? And, a key concept to understand when thinking about the research process is that there is no such thing as single resource that would be an equally effective starting
- [Comics Studies Society - 2017 Prizes](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2018/01/03/comics-studies-society-2017-prizes/) - One of the particular features of working in the academic environment is that individual scholars' contributions to their fields' bodies of knowledge are often recognized directly via various kinds of "best publication" awards - usually a combination of an actual cash award, of course recognition, and, perhaps most importantly, a line on the CV! This
- [College Classes on Anime/Manga: Fall 2017](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/10/10/college-classes-on-animemanga-fall-2017/) - The Fall 2017 semester is well under way now - and this means that it's time for another round-up of classes on anime/manga that colleges/universities around the U.S. are offering this term. As with the prior similar updates, it is meant to be illustrative, not comprehensive - for that matter, I don't think there is
- [Int’l Anime Research Project – 2017 Anime Survey](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/09/05/intl-anime-research-project-2017-anime-survey/) - Who exactly are anime fans? What are their demographic profiles, their ethnic/racial/national backgrounds, their income and education levels? How do anime fans view themselves - how are anime fans viewed by non-fans, and by fans of other media or activities? How are anime fans' personal choices and preferences correlated to their beliefs or behaviors? Finding
- [Highlighting New Publications - Undergraduate Scholarship on Anime/Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/08/26/highlighting-new-publications-undergraduate-scholarship-on-animemanga/) - "Any [academic] discipline is first and foremost about the people who practice it" - write Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder in Who publishes in comparative politics?: Studying the world from the United States. There are plenty of examples of studies in different areas/disciplines/fields that examine the characteristics of the authors who are actually working
- [Manga in the New Bloomsbury 'Comics Studies' Series](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/07/20/manga-in-the-new-bloomsbury-comics-studies-series/) - Over the last several years, the international academic publisher Bloomsbury has actively embraced the emerging academic field of comics studies, with books such as The Visual Language of Comics, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives (with chapters on "manga versions of Spider-Man" and "the cultural crossovers" of the manga-inspired Scott Pilgrim series), Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
- [Call for Papers: Japan Pop Goes Global](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/07/19/call-for-papers-japan-pop-goes-global/) - Japan Pop Goes Global: Japanese Pop Culture on Aesthetics and Creativity Aoyama Gakuin University Tokyo, Japan November 25, 2017 The School of Cultural and Creative Studies, Aoyama Gakuin University in collaboration with the Mutual Images Association has announced a Call for Papers for a symposium on the growing influence of Japanese popular culture, including anime/manga,
- [Guest Post - The 'So Far' of Anime and Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/07/17/guest-post-the-so-far-of-anime-and-manga/) - From the editor: One of the major activities that Anime and Manga Studies Projects undertakes is promoting the emerging field of anime and manga studies by highlighting new academic writing on Japanese animation and Japanese comics. The ongoing Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies is one aspect of this activity, and pieces I post highlighting
- [Call for Papers - Mechademia: Second Arc, Vol. 1 "Childhood"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/07/12/call-for-papers-mechademia-second-arc-vol-1-childhood/) - Back in 2006, the University of Minnesota Press's launch of Mechademia Volume 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga - the first in "a series of books...devoted to creative and critical work on anime, manga and the fan arts", with the goal for the series stated as being "to examine, discuss, theorize and reveal this
- [AX 2017 Academic Program](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/06/08/ax-2017-academic-program/) - Planning on attending next month's Anime Expo convention? (Los Angeles, California - July 1-4)? Have always been interested in "anime and manga studies" - or just in the idea of approaching anime and manga in the same way that scholars approach film and literature? For that matter, want to see just how scholars from many
- [Call for Papers – Mechademia Conf. on Asian Popular Cultures 2017](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/05/01/call-for-papers-mechademia-conf-on-asian-popular-cultures-2017/) - Mechademia 2017: Science Fictions Minneapolis College of Art and Design Minneapolis, Minnesota September 22-24, 2017 The organizers of the annual Mechademia conference, hosted at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, are inviting scholars to present their work at this year's event. Mechademia's overall goal is to "explore the global innovations and creative and cultural
- [I Want to Know More - Books on Anime/Manga: A Guided Tour, Part 1](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/04/27/i-want-to-know-more-books-on-animemanga-a-guided-tour-part-1/) - One of the most basic questions that can come up in anime/manga studies is simply - where and how can someone begin learning about anime and manga. Where can a person start if their goal is to find out more about the origins and history of anime, identify the major themes that Japanese animation and
- [Call for Papers: AX 2017 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/03/03/call-for-papers-ax-2017-anime-and-manga-studies-symposium/) - As the Executive Producer for the annual AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, the Academic Program track at Anime Expo, the largest anime convention in the U.S., I am pleased to announce the CALL FOR PAPERS for this year's Symposium. Please feel free to distribute this to your colleagues, students, friends/acquaintances, or anyone else who you
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2017 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/02/10/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2017-ed/) - The work that I do to promote anime and manga studies as an academic field and facilitate its growth and development includes several different projects - this site, the Anime and Manga Research Circle Mailing List, convention panels, of course, the Academic Program at Anime Expo. But, the one project that I focus on the
- [Anime/Manga Studies in 2016: The Year in Review](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/02/09/animemanga-studies-in-2016-the-year-in-review/) - The goal of this site, as I present it, is to "highlight announcements and news, provide commentary on new trends, new issues, and new publications, and develop resources to support the emerging academic field of anime/manga studies". What this has meant, largely, is that my focus has been on what is happening in anime/manga studies
- [College Classes on Anime/Manga: 2016-2017](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2017/01/07/college-classes-on-animemanga-20162017/) - A few days ago, RocketNews24 (which proclaims that its goal is to "to bring Asia’s own brand of strange to the English-speaking world) announced that a "U.S. university has 'Reading and Writing About Magical Girls' as introductory English course". Breaking news. Unique. Unprecedented. Worth the breathless - alternating with bemused - write-up. Oh, yeah, based
- [Self-Publishing on Anime/Manga: A 2016 Update](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/12/21/self-publishing-on-animemanga-a-2016-update/) - Almost three years ago, when I first began writing about the mechanics of anime/manga studies as an an area of academic activity, one of the questions I posed was whether "it possible for an author to self-publish a book of criticism/commentary on Japanese animation or Japanese comics"? The short answer was yes, as with Patrick
- [New Special Issue - TranscUlturAl: A J. of Translation and Cultural Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/12/01/new-special-issue-transcultural/) - As I've noted a number of times, some academic journals certainly seem to be "more welcoming" to publications on anime/manga than others. 78 articles on anime/manga that have been published since 1993 appeared in the International Journal of Comic Art, 22 in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 19 in Japan Forum, 15 in the Journal of
- [New Special Issue - The Journal of Popular Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/11/23/new-special-issue-the-journal-of-popular-culture/) - Fred Schodt's 1983 Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics is rightly recognized as the first in-depth English-language survey of its subject. But, already, Western scholars were also paying attention to Japanese comics - first, in 1977, with "Contemporary Japanese youth: Mass media communication" (in Youth & Society, 8:4), and then, two years later, with
- [New Issue - Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/11/14/new-issue-animation-an-interdisciplinary-journal/) - In describing any academic field, one important factor to consider is where the scholars who participate in that field actually publish their work. Are there only a few journals that account for the majority of published scholarship? Or do articles appear in many different ones? For that matter, is it possible to define a list
- [Using Subject Headings in Anime/Manga Research](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/10/25/using-subject-headings-in-animemanga-research/) - How does someone go about locating scholarly publications (books, book chapters, journal articles) on topics related to Japanese animation and Japanese comics? Plugging keywords into Google or Bing, the specialized Google Scholar and Bing Academic Search, or scholarly database such as Academic OneFile, Academic Search Premier, or the Film & Television Literature Index can be
- [Faculty Position Announcement - East Asian Visual Media/Popular Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/10/07/faculty-position-announcement/) - "The Department of World Languages & Literatures at Boston University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in East Asian Visual Media and Popular Culture, to begin July 1, 2017. Relevant expertise includes research in film, television, animation, graphic novels, or new media. Strong preference for transnational research reflecting the increasingly globalized sphere of
- [Highlighting New Publications -  Rewriting History in Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/10/05/highlighting-new-publications-rewriting-history-in-manga/) - Popular culture works across different languages and different media - literature, film, television, and comics - frequently draw on historical events for their subjects. In turn, how popular culture uses history is a frequent topic of scholarship in its own right - just some recent examples include American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film, Gone With the
- [Upcoming Exhibition - Cool Japan: A Worldwide Fascination in Focus](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/08/30/cool-japan-a-worldwide-fascination/) - Next year, starting in April, Museum Volkenkunde / The National Museum of Ethnology (Leiden, The Netherlands) will host "Cool Japan: A Worldwide Fascination in Focus", an exhibition which will use original artwork, physical objects (manga, figures, costumes, video games, etc.), installations, displays and screenings to "examine the popularity of the Japanese visual popculture, explore the
- [New Issue - Resilience: A Journal of the Ecocritical Humanities](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/08/24/new-issue-resilienc/) - More than a year and a half ago, early in 2015, the editors of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities announced a Call for Papers for a special Media Review section in an upcoming issue of the journal, that would be dedicated to "apply[ing] ecocritical and Green cultural studies approaches to the field of
- [Introduction to Anime/Manga Studies - Otakon 2016 Version](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/08/23/introduction-to-animemanga-studies-otakon-2016-version/) - My work towards developing "anime/manga studies" as an academic field takes several different forms. I run this site - of course, I continue to develop various resources to support the field - the leading one being the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, earlier this year, I once again organized the Academic Program track
- [College Courses on Anime - Introduction to Anime and Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/08/11/introduction-to-anime-and-manga-studies/) - Scholarly writing on anime and manga is, of course, a major component of "anime/manga studies", but not the only component - and classes that focus on Japanese animation and Japanese comics are an equally important part of the field. But, while the first English-language academic publications on Japanese comics appeared in the late 1970's, and
- [Highlighting New Publications: Urutsokidoji and the Transcultural Reception and Regulation of Anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/07/31/highlighting-new-publications-urutsokidoji/) - Japanese animation is, of course, animation created in Japan (even if, increasingly, a significant percentage of the actual "animation" work is out-sourced to other Asian countries), by Japanese creators - and designed primarily for distribution to Japanese audiences. But, since at least the early 1960's, Japanese animation - first feature films, then television series -
- [AX 2016 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium Program](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/06/20/ax-2016-anime-and-manga-studies-symposium-program/) - After several months of intensive work, I am pleased to announce the final program for this year's AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium. Running over all four days of Anime Expo, the largest anime convention in the U.S., the Symposium brings together a group of scholars who are interested in presenting their academic research on
- [Highlighting New Publications – Manga Vision](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/06/18/highlighting-new-publications-manga-vision/) - One thing I have always found a bit curious about English-language academic writing on Japanese animation and comics is that while anime has been the subject of a number of full-length books, such as Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke, The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation, Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building, Anime:
- [Call for Papers - Mechademia Conf. on Asian Popular Cultures 2016](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/06/14/call-for-papers-mechademia-conf-on-asian-popular-cultures-2016/) - Minneapolis College of Art and Design September 23-25, 2016 The organizers of the annual Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures are now inviting proposals for individual paper presentations and panel discussions for this year's event. The dates for Mechademia 2016 are Friday, September 23 to Sunday, September 25 and it will once again be hosted
- [Anime and Manga Studies @ Otakon 2016](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/06/07/anime-and-manga-studies-otakon-2016/) - For what it's worth, for someone like me, the idea of an academic approach to Japanese animation and Japanese comics - and of an actual academic field of anime/manga studies - is something that I have long now taken for granted. But, for many people who are interested in anime and manga, it is still
- [Int'l Anime Research Project - 2016 Anime Survey](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/06/02/intl-anime-research-project-2016/) - As an academic field or area, anime/manga studies is, of course, concerned primarily with Japanese animation and Japanese comics as art forms. But, anime is also a medium - the same goes for manga - and so, anime/manga studies is also inevitably concerned with how Japanese animation and comics are produced, distributed around the world, and experienced
- [Manga Studies in the 2016 Eisner Nominations](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/05/11/manga-studies-in-the-2016-eisner-nominations/) - Recently, the judging panel for the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, which will be presented in July at Comic-Con International: San Diego and serve to "[highlight] the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels" from around the world announced this year's slate of nominees. As has been the case for years now,
- [Highlighting New Publications – Origin and Ownership from Ballet to Anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/04/19/highlighting-new-publications-origin-and-ownership-from-ballet-to-anime/) - One of the inevitable challenges of attempting an academic approach to anime/manga is the simple question of selecting particular works to examine - out of hundreds. In a way, it is this challenge that leads many scholars to limit their discussion of anime to discussions of Hayao Miyazaki's animated films - if nothing else, this
- [Citation patterns in anime/manga studies - an initial study](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/04/12/citation-patterns-in-animemanga-studies-an-initial-study/) - When we bring up the term "anime and manga studies", or even just the concept, being asked to define what we mean by it is inevitable. In trying to present a definition, we are certainly not alone - just some recent examples of scholarship describing and defining particular academic areas, fields, and disciplines include Building
- [Call for Papers - Princess Mononoke, 20th Anniversary](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/04/11/call-for-papers-princess-mononoke-20th-anniversary/) - For many people in the U.S, their first experience with Japanese animation took place in 1999, when Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke played in some 130 theaters around the country. Since then, it has become one of the most recognizable examples of anime, and film programs and classes on Japanese cinema in general and on anime
- [The First Years of Anime/Manga Studies: 1970's-1980's](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/03/28/the-first-years-of-animemanga-studies-1970s-1980s/) - Today, the idea of an article in a major academic journal that deals with some aspect of Japanese animation or Japanese comics, the global distribution networks for anime/manga, the activities and practices of anime fans, and other related topics is really nothing particularly out of the ordinary - just this year so far, I have
- [Highlighting New Publications - Manga & Anime Go to Hollywood](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/03/24/manga-anime-go-to-hollywood/) - "Can anime/manga be adapted into successful American live-action films?" And, for that matter, "which anime/manga would be good candidates for adaptation into American live-action films? These kinds of questions are too easy - and are asked time and time again. In the mid-2000's, A.D. Vision, then the leading distributor on anime on VHS and DVD
- [Potential research topics in anime/manga studies - Crowdfunding anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/03/21/potential-research-topic-crowdfunding-anime/) - One of the more common criticisms aimed at the whole process of scholarly publishing is that it just takes too long. The period between when an article is first submitted for publication and when it actually appears in a journal takes several months at the least, and may very well be year or more. For
- [SGMS/Mechademia Tokyo Conference on Asian Popular Cultures Program](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/03/17/sgmsmechademia-tokyo-conference/) - The organizers of the 桜SGMS: Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures, which will run at Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan) over this weekend (March 18-20) have now announced the full program for this event. The theme for this international conference "Conflicts of Interest in Anime, Manga, and Gaming", and the program will consist of a
- [Communicating with Cool Japan (Int'l Communication Association Pre-Conference)](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/03/09/communicating-with-cool-japan-intl-communication-association-pre-conference/) - A few months ago, I was glad to participate in distributing the Call for Papers for Communicating with Cool Japan: New International Perspectives on Japanese Popular Culture, a one-day mini-conference that would run in Tokyo, at Waseda University, on June 8, just ahead of (and in connection with) the 66th annual conference of the International
- ["So, what do I do next?" - Resources for calls for papers](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/03/08/so-what-do-i-do-next/) - Academic work in any field or area, including anime/manga studies, is not "for its own sake" - and the end goal of any academic project is a result or outcome that can be shared with the public. Of course, the actual process of knowledge sharing can take several different forms. Just some of them include
- [Highlighting New Publications - Manga in America](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/02/20/highlighting-new-publications-manga-in-america/) - English-language scholarship on Japanese comics/manga goes back almost 40 years - at least to Mary Sanches' Contemporary Japanese youth: Mass media communication, published in 1977 in Youth & Society (8:4, 389-416) - an analysis of "the information presented to young readers in one issue of each of two typical Japanese publications [manga magazines]", with an
- [Meiji University "Cool Japan" Summer Program (July 20 - August 5)](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/02/02/cool-japan/) - Individual classes on anime/manga offered by colleges of all types around the U.S. are nothing new. But, what kinds of options are there for students who are interested in learning about topics related to Japanese visual culture - in Japan? One such option is the Cool Japan Summer Program, which has been offered annually since
- [Call for Papers: AX 2016 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/02/01/ax2016-cfp/) - As many of you know, one of the major projects that I am involved with annually is developing, organizing/producing, and managing the AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, also known as the Academic Program track of Anime Expo, the largest anime convention in the U.S. Every year, the Symposium brings together a select group of
- [Tools for locating publications on anime/manga: Thoughts and comments](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/01/25/tools-for-locating/) - One of the most defining features of the "genre" of academic writing is that it explicitly connects to, expands on, and engages in a conversation with previously published material. The author of an academic work on a particular topic, whether this work is a book, a journal article, or simply a paper prepared for a
- [Resource Review - Dissertation Reviews](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/01/21/resource-review-dissertation-reviews/) - In a previous post, I asked whether graduate students write Ph.D dissertations/master's theses on anime and manga - the answer being very much yes. In the same post, I also discussed several ways of locating and accessing these kinds of dissertations, including using Google Scholar, institutional repositories, and the subscription-only ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
- [Where do we publish on anime/manga - a select list](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/01/06/where-do-we-publish-on-animemanga-a-select-list/) - If anime/manga studies is to be thought of as a defined academic field or area, then it should have particular characteristics. And, one of the ways to characterize an academic field is by identifying the kinds of journals that scholars who work in this area turn to when publishing their work. Building up, as I
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2002 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2016/01/05/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2002-ed/) - In an earlier post, I made the case that 2001 marked the beginning of a new period in the development of anime/manga studies as an academic field or area. And while it was certainly possible that one year was just a quirk, the English-language academic publications on Japanese animation and comics that appeared in 2002
- [Creator Bibliography – Osamu Tezuka (Part 2: 1997-2009)](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/12/24/creator-bibliography-osamu-tezuka-part-2-1997-2009/) - Earlier this year, I compiled a list of English-language academic/scholarly publications on Osamu Tezuka and his works since 2010. At that point, I noted that it would be the first part of a comprehensive specialized bibliography of academic writing on Tezuka - and I am now pleased to present its second part, covering book, book
- [Call for Papers - 桜SGMS: Mechademia Conf. on Asian Popular Cultures](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/12/18/mechademia/) - Aoyama Gakuin University Tokyo, Japan March 18-20 The organizers of the Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Culture annual conference, held at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design annually since 2001 (originally as Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits) are now accepting presentation and panel proposals for the Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures 2016, to be hosted
- [Call for Papers - Communicating with Cool Japan: New Int'l Perspectives on Japanese Popular Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/12/15/communicating-with-cool-japan/) - Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) June 8, 2016 Scholars at all levels, including graduate students, are invited to submit papers and panel proposals for "Communicating With Cool Japan", a one-day pre-conference that will be held immediately preceding the 66th annual conference of the International Communication Association. Submissions on any topic related to Japanese popular culture are
- [Creator Bibliography: Shigeru Mizuki](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/12/09/creator-bibliography-shigeru-mizuki/) - When manga artist Shigeru Mizuki died last week, news sources not just in Japan, but all around the world - New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Reuters, and numerous others - published articles about his life and work. Mizuki had been involved in creating manga since the 1950's, but it is only relatively recently
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2003 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/12/08/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2003-ed/) - The most memorable moment for Japanese animation in the U.S. in 2003 - and, quite possibly, to date - was the selection by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away as the year's best animated feature film. The Oscar could be used as an easy explanation for why Western
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2004 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/22/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2004-ed/) - 2004 marked another year of steady growth in the number of academic English-language publications on anime and manga. One clear highlight was Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii, the first book-length examination of the works of an anime director other than Miyazaki. Interestingly, it grew out of work that its author, Brian
- [Call for Papers - Transnational Comics: Crossing Gutters, Transcending Borders](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/21/call-for-papers-transnational-comics-crossing-gutters-transcending-borders/) - University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) April 8-10, 2016 The Call for Papers for the upcoming 13th University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels is now open. The theme of the conference is "Transnational Comics: Crossing Gutters, Transcending Boundaries", and the list of suggested topics specifically includes "Comics that have been translated and/or disseminated
- [New Issue: Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/20/new-issue-scjoca/) - One of the most interesting trends in the development of the academic field of comics studies over the last two or so decades has been the emergence of several academic journals focused specifically on comics - broadly defined, and including manga. This trend started with the launch of the International Journal of Comic Art; since
- [Finding and accessing dissertations and theses on anime/manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/18/dissertations-and-theses/) - Academic writing on anime/manga can exist in several different formats. Most of these are intuitively familiar to readers - the book written by a single author, the edited collection of essays by several, the individual chapter in a collection, the article in a scholarly journal. But, one format that many readers may not be as
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2001 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/11/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2001-ed/) - The years from 1993 to 2000 constituted the beginning period of the growth of English-language anime/manga studies, as scholars such as Susan Napier, Anne Allison, Antonia Levi, Sharon Kinsella, Mary Grigsby and Kinko Ito first began to publish scholarly writing on Japanese animation and Japanese comics. 2001, and in particular, the publication of Napier's Anime From
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2000 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/09/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2000-ed/) - In 2000, it was becoming evident that academic interest in Japanese animation and comics was surging across different publication formats - books by single authors, edited collections such as A Century of Popular Culture in Japan and Japan Pop! The World of Japanese Popular Culture (with 9 chapters on anime/manga between them), individual chapters in
- ["Anime in the US: The Entrepreneurial Dimensions of Globalized Culture" - What Could Have Been](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/08/what-could-have-been/) - In my critique of the Pacific Affairs article Anime in the U.S.: The entrepreneurial dimensions of globalized culture, I argued that one of the most frustrating things about this essay is that it actually contains the basic shape of a vastly article on the role that individual entrepreneurs played in introducing Japanese animation to American
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 1999 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/06/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-1999-ed/) - On October 29, 1999, Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke opened in 8 theaters around the U.S. It was, of course, not the first Japanese animated feature film to receive an American theatrical release, but it was certainly more prominent than any that was released before. It ultimately expanded to some 130 theaters in the U.S. and
- [New Issue: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/05/new-issue-journal-of-graphic-novels-and-comics/) - Academic articles on comics, including manga, can - and certainly do - appear in a wide range of ournals. For example, just this year so far, the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies, and Transformative Works and Cultures have all published such articles. However, several English-language journals cover comics exclusively.
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 1998 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/11/03/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-1998-ed/) - 1998 saw a slight increase in the number of chapters on anime/manga published in edited essay collections - 7 compared to the previous year's 5. Three of the seven appeared in the first English-language books on Japanese popular culture in general, alongside other chapters on topics such as sumo, karaoke, women's magazines, live-action television series.
- [The Early Years of Anime/Manga Studies: 1990-1995](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/10/31/the-early-years-of-animemanga-studies-1991-1995/) - Looking back more than twenty years, to the five years from 1991 to 1995, is actually a very good way to see how academics first began to approach Japanese animation. This period includes what is considered to be the first paper on anime in a major English-language academic journal (Susan Napier's Panic sites: The Japanese
- [Highlighting New Publications - Anime: A Critical Introduction](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/10/28/highlighting-new-publications-anime-a-critical-introduction/) - The goals of the first books on Japanese animation published in English - Antonia Levi's Samurai From Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation (1996), Susan Napier's Anime From Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation (2001), and Patrick Drazen's Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation (2002) - were fairly modest, and
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2005 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/10/23/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2005-ed/) - If, as I already noted, "2006 marked the point when the academic study of Japanese animation and Japanese comics could really be thought of as a discreet academic field or area", 2005 was the concluding year of the period during which anime/manga studies developed into a field (this period, in turn, began in 2001, with
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2006 Ed.: Part 2](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/10/18/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2006-ed-part-2/) - In terms of books on anime/manga, whether written by single authors, or collecting essays by several, 2006 was simply like no year that came before. In fact, I would be comfortable saying that it marked the point when the academic study of Japanese animation and Japanese comics could really be thought of as a discreet
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2006 Ed.: Part 1](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/10/03/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2006/) - Introduction Once again, for the next annual list of academic publications on anime/manga, covering 2006, I am breaking it down into two sections. This first one covers articles published in academic/scholarly journals, as well as "journals of opinion", commentary magazines, and publications sponsored by Japanese government agencies and non-profit organizations. The second will include books
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2007 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/09/29/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2007-ed/) - Introduction In terms of major new contributions to anime/manga studies, the highlight of 2007 was easily Susan Napier's monograph From impressionism to anime: Japan as fantasy and fan cult in the mind of the West. Napier, the author of 2001's Anime From Akira to Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, the first book-length academic study of
- [Call for Papers - Traumics: Comics Narratives of Trauma](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/09/24/call-for-papers-traumics-comics-narratives-of-trauma/) - The academic journal ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies is currently inviting papers for an upcoming "Traumics: Comics Narrative of Trauma" special issue of the journal. The CFP specifically mentions "Trauma and manga" as a potential suggested topic, with the works of Osamu Tezuka and Moto Hagio as possible examples. Submissions from faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and
- [Who are the anime/manga scholars?](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/09/23/who-are-the-animemanga-scholars/) - One way to characterize any academic field is by looking at the authors who publish in it. What countries are they based in? What colleges/universities? And, more specifically, what are their academic affiliations? Scholars often ask these questions - as, for example, in Who publishes in comparative politics: Studying the world from the United States
- [Comment/Response: Japanese Cartoons, Virtual Child Pornography, Academic Libraries, and the Law](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/09/21/spotlight-on-new-publications-japanese-cartoons-virtual-child-pornography-academic-libraries-and-the-law/) - Different scholars write about manga in different ways. What a literature scholar can - and may want - to say about Japanese comics will necessarily be different from the perspective of a historian or a sociologist. And, one particular kind of perspective on manga is that brought by librarians and library science scholars. Granted, these
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies: 1996 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/09/13/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-1996-ed/) - Going through the history of academic publications on anime and manga, it is no particular surprise that the sheer numbers of such publications have generally increased over the years. This is consistent with the results of most recent studies of trends in academic publishing, across many different fields (although of course, occasionally, such studies do
- [Courses on Anime - A Fall 2015 Update](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/09/08/courses-on-anime-a-fall-2015-update/) - Earlier this year, I compiled and published a list of recent classes on Japanese animation offered by colleges/universities around the U.S. As I mentioned then, I knew that this list would not be comprehensive - there would be classes I simply did not know about, and others that are only being offered for the first
- [Call for Papers - 30 Years of Studio Ghibli](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/09/07/call-for-papers-30-years-of-studio-ghibli/) - Intellect, the publisher of journals such as Asian Cinema, Journal of Fandom Studies, Studies in Comics, and the new East Asian Journal of Popular Culture and books, including several Japan volumes (in the Directory of World Cinema series) that have consistently welcomed academic writing on anime and manga has announced a call for papers for
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies: 1997 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/09/04/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-1997-ed/) - One common way to characterize any academic field is by its publication patterns and trends. In what formats is research in this field published? What kinds of topics does it cover? If the majority of the research is published in the form of journal articles, is it concentrated in a small group of journals, or
- [Introduction to Anime & Manga Studies @ Waku Waku +NYC](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/08/26/introduction-to-anime-manga-studies-waku-waku-nyc/) - Waku Waku +NYC, the new "Japanese pop culture festival", will be held this weekend (August 29-30) in New York City, in various locations in Brooklyn. More than just an anime convention, it will include screenings, talks, performances, a fashion show, interactive events, and concerts spread out several locations in Brooklyn. I am delighted to be
- [Call for Papers - 'Asian Popular Culture'](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/08/23/call-for-papers-asian-popular-culture/) - The Journal of Popular Culture, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that is an official publication of the Popular Culture Association is currently accepting papers for an upcoming special issue on Asian popular culture. The CFP notes that "'Asian popular culture' has become synonymous with the ideas, images, and phenomena of East Asia and specifically with Japanese
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2008 Ed.: Part 2](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/08/17/2008-ed-2/) - As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I am currently trying out a new way to manage the work-flow that would go into developing a comprehensive listing of English-language academic publications of anime and manga - i.e., the Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies. Whereas previously, i would work to put together comprehensive lists
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2008 Ed.: Part 1](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/08/14/2008-ed-part-1/) - So far, my workflow for building a freely accessible (and more importantly, close to comprehensive) directory of published English-language academic writing on Japanese animation and Japanese comics has consisted of compiling and posting annual lists of such publications - like the ones that are now available in the Bibliographies section. Needless to say, preparing a
- ["What to take, what to leave": Thoughts on compiling bibliographies of writing on anime/manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/08/12/thoughts-on-compiling/) - One of the most basic concepts underlying the practice of organizing and representing information is that it requires making choices. The organization and representation of information, choosing what to present, and how to arrange it is an ideological act, and even to a degree a political act. Guides, indexes, directories, databases, classification systems, and other
- [Resource Review - Japanese Literature in English](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/07/28/resource-review-japanese-literature-in-english/) - In her essay Confronting master narratives: History as vision in Miyazaki Hayao's cinema of de-assurance, in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 9(2), Susan Napier notes that in his films of the 1980's and 1990's, Miyazaki "mined with great box office success a rich vein of global fantasy, legends, and science fiction to create original stories".
- [AX 2015 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium - Final Schedule](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/06/27/ax-2015-anime-and-manga-studies-symposium-final-schedule/) - The full schedule for this year's AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, the Academic Program track at Anime Expo, the largest anime/manga convention in North America, has now been finalized. This year's Symposium consists of four plenary addresses, a special roundtable discussion, and 12 individual presentations on various topics related to anime/manga, with a total
- [Anime and manga in the OA "Comic Book & Graphic Novel Collection"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/05/31/anime-and-manga-in-the-oa-comic-book-graphic-novel-collection/) - The trend towards "open access" is probably the single most important recent development in academic/scholarly publishing, across many different subject ares, and disciplines. As I mentioned in an earlier post, much of the discussion of the new issues, as well as the challenges and controversies, of open access publishing focus on the STM ("science, technology,
- [AX 2015 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium - Speakers and Talk Titles](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/05/05/ax-2015-anime-and-manga-studies-symposium-speakers-and-talk-titles/) - I am pleased to announce the final program for the 2015 AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, the Anime Expo 2015 Academic Program. AX 2015 will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center (Los Angeles, California), from July 2 to July 5, and the Symposium will be spread out over all four days. The
- [Books on Manga in the 2015 Eisner Nominations](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/04/26/books-on-manga-in-the-2015-eisner-nominations/) - Earlier this week, Comic-Con International announced the full list of nominees for this year's Eisner Awards, the major form of recognition of the year's best comics (widely defined), comics artists and creators, and publications related to comics - including periodicals, general interest books, and academic/scholarly works. Five Japanese comics received nominations in the Best U.S.
- [Call for Papers - 'Animation/Anime'](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/04/09/mpca-cfp/) - Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association 2015 Annual Conference Cincinnati, OH (October 1-4, 2015) The Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association seeks proposals for papers and panels on animation and anime for its 2015 Conference, to be held Thursday-Sunday,1-4 October 2015 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, OH. The conference seeks
- [Creator Bibliography - Osamu Tezuka (Part 1: 2010 - present)](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/04/08/osamu-tezuka/) - It is always hard to come up with adequate words for the role that Osamu Tezuka played in the development of Japanese comics and Japanese animation. The epithets are plenty - "one of the most respected cultural figures of 20th century Japan", "godfather" of anime/manga, "God of manga", even "God of comics" - and there
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2015 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/03/31/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2015-ed/) - Over the more than 10 years now that I have been tracking the development of anime/manga studies as an academic area in general, and new academic publications on anime/manga more specifically, I have presented my work in several different formats. A single fixed list or table was adequate when there were only a few dozen
- [Call for Proposals - "Critical Approaches to Comics Artists - Osamu Tezuka"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/03/30/call-for-proposals-critical-approaches-to-comics-artists-osamu-tezuka/) - The University Press of Mississippi has consistently been one of the most active publishers of English-language scholarship on comics, including manga. UPM is now accepting proposals for books in a series of collections of "original, multidisciplinary essays by established and emerging scholars on a major cartoonist or graphic novelist." And, one of the cartoonists/graphic novelists
- [Highlighting New Publications: Boys Love Manga and Beyond](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/03/22/highlighting-new-publications-boys-love-manga-and-beyond/) - As a particular genre in Japanese comics (and to a lesser degree, animation), Boys' Love and the related generic/content label of yaoi has attracted significant scholarly attention from English-language scholars of Japanese popular visual culture. Boys' Love, often abbreviated to BL, refers to texts with homosexual or at least homoerotic romance themes, created primarily by,
- [New Issue - Japan Forum: Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/03/19/new-issue-japan-forum-japanese-popular-culture-and-contents-tourism/) - One feature of scholarly communication that is common to many different academic fields/areas is a small group of journals that are considered to be "core" to that particular field or area. These journals are the field's most important and most prestigious - and often also the most heavily cited. Anime/manga studies does not (yet?) have
- [The Origins of English-Language Anime Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/03/17/the-origins-of-english-language-anime-studies/) - When I talk about anime and manga studies, especially in formal presentations, some questions come up over and over again. How much academic/scholarly writing on anime/manga is out there? How many scholars study (and more specifically, write about) Japanese animation, Japanese comics, and related topics? And, can we really talk about a "history" of anime/manga
- [Call for Papers - "The Future in Comics"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/03/09/call-for-papers-the-future-in-comics/) - Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden) September 3-5 Future in Comics "This conference aims to investigate ways in which comics explore the idea of 'future.' Its goal is to gather scholars from the field of comic studies and related fields, such as linguistics, philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, film studies as well as others that
- [Publication patterns in anime/manga studies, 2010-2014](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/03/03/publication-patterns/) - Over the last year, I have been using this blog to promote, foster and facilitate the developing field of anime/manga studies, and document various new developments in this field. And, I also hope to be able to say that with this blog, I can demonstrate just what we mean by the term anime and manga
- [Speaking Opportunities (NYC): Anime Research Group](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/02/28/speaking-opportunities/) - The Anime Research Group is an informal New York City-based organization that works to organize various cultural and educational events related Japanese animation. Its current major project is a series of anime film screenings held at Manhattan theaters. This year so far it has screened Magnetic Rose (one of the segments of 1995's Memories anime anthology,
- ["Anime on Campus": Courses on Japanese Animation at American Colleges](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/02/21/anime-on-campus-courses-on-japanese-animation-at-american-colleges/) - College classes on Japanese animation/Japanese comics that are currently being offered at colleges and universities around the U.S. or that have been offered in the past are now listed on a separate page. This page will be updated continuously, and if you know of any other classes that you would like to see listed there,
- ['Manga at a Crossroads' Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/02/16/manga-at-a-crossroads/) - On March 6 and April 4, The Ohio State University's East Asian Studies Center will present Manga at a Crossroads, a two-day symposium on manga as a major form of Japanese popular culture, with influence and impact world-wide. The symposium's first session will focus on the origins, history and development of manga; the second will
- [Call for Papers: AX 2015 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/02/15/call-for-papers-ax-2015-anime-and-manga-symposium/) - I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, an integral part of this year's Anime Expo convention. Call for Papers / Call for Speakers 2015 AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium July 2 - July 5 Anime Expo 2015 Los Angeles Convention Center (Los Angeles, CA
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2010 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/02/07/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2010-ed/) - To the best of my knowledge, 2010 was simply THE high point to date of English-language scholarly interest in anime and manga, with 10 new monographs, 6 essay collections (with a total of well over a hundred chapters), 29 more chapters in other essay collections, and over 60 individual articles in scholarly-peer reviewed journals. Particularly
- ['Globalized Manga Culture and Fandom' Mini-Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/02/02/globalized-manga-culture-and-fandom-mini-symposium/) - This month, Baruch College (New York) will host the art exhibition "World of Shojo Manga: Mirrors of Girls' Desires". In conjunction with the exhibition, the college will also present a one-day "mini-symposium" on certain aspects of Japanese comics and their worldwide reception. Globalized Manga Culture and Fandom Thursday, February 19, 12:40 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
- [Call for Papers - Ecocritical Reviews of Studio Ghibli Films](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/02/01/call-for-papers-ecocritical-reviews-of-studio-ghibli-films/) - "The Media Review section of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities calls for reviews that apply ecocritical and Green cultural studies approaches to the field of Japanese animation. 2014 was a watershed year for Studio Ghibli, arguably the leading anime studio, because it marked the retirement of the founding directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao
- [Some challenges of locating and accessing books on anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/29/some-challenges-of-locating-and-and-accessing-books-on-anime/) - Japanese animation came to the U.S. in the summer of 1961, with the theatrical release of Alakazam the Great (Saiyuki), Magic Boy (Shonen Sarutobi Sasuke), and Panda and the Magic Serpent (Hakujaden). It took over 30 years for the first English-language books on anime - Helen McCarthy's 1993 Anime!: A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Animation
- [Subject Encyclopedias in Anime and Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/21/subject-encyclopedias/) - To most people, "encyclopedia" means one of two things. It can mean a national encyclopedia like the Encyclopedia Britannica - obsolete, a prop, a historical artifact. Or it can mean Wikipedia - criticized and controversial (and the subject of extensive research - a lot of it is summarized in Mesrage, M., et al., "The sum
- [Call for Papers - "Fandom and Neomedia Studies"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/14/fans-conference/) - Dallas, Texas - June 6-7, 2015 Third Annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies Conference "We are pleased to announce a CFP for submissions to the Third Annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference in Dallas, TX, on 6 and 7 June 2015. Fandom for us includes all aspects of being a fan, ranging from being a
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2011 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/13/2011-bibliography/) - 2011 was a very strong year for new English-language academic/scholarly publications on anime and manga. These included four new monographs, a Collector's Edition of Frederik Schodt's seminal Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga (originally published in 1996), a new edited collection of essays on Japanese animation and comics, to add to Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements
- [Director Bibliography: Makoto Shinkai](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/09/makoto-shinkai/) - The names of Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii, and Satoshi Kon are familiar to pretty much anyone who has an interest in Japanese animation. And it is no surprise that these are the three directors who have also received extensive attention in the English-language scholarly writing on anime. But, as was widely reported and discussed last
- [New Issue - Science Fiction Film and Television](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/08/new-issue-science-fiction-film-and-television/) - Anime, as anime scholars will never tire of repeating, is not a genre, it is a "form" or "mode" of animation, and anime films and television series can include a wide variety of genres. At the same time, it is also true that anime's stereotypical genre is science fiction. The two films that first really
- [Highlighting Upcoming Publications: Global Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/06/highlighting-upcoming-publications-global-manga/) - When we use the term 'manga', what exactly do we mean? What are the components, or features, or characteristics of manga. Are these features or characteristics equal and equally necessary - does a work need to have all of them to qualify, or are some of them more fluid or optional than others. Is something
- [Call for Papers - "Japanese Pop Cultures in Europe Today"](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2015/01/03/call-for-papers-japanese-pop-cultures-in-europe-today/) - Kobe University (Kobe, Japan) - June 12-13, 2015 Mutual Images - Third International Workshop Japanese Pop Cultures in Europe Today: Economic Challenges, Mediated Notions, Future Opportunities For the third Mutual Images workshop, we seek to explore the dynamic relations between Japan and Europe through contemporary popular cultures. These past decades, Japanese pop cultures (manga, anime
- [Anime Director Bibliographies: Satoshi Kon](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/12/14/anime-director-bibliographies-satoshi-kon/) - When thinking about the "best", "greatest", "most influential", or even simply "most recognizable" directors of Japanese animation, the first two names are easy - Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii. But, beyond those two, who else to name? Using the simple measure of scholarly attention, the third name that comes up is of the late Satoshi
- ["Predatory open-access" and anime/manga studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/12/09/predatory-open-access/) - The growth of (free, online) "open-access" to academic publications has made a significant impact on how scholarship is produced, packaged/published, and presented to readers. And it is perhaps inevitable that the open-access model has given rise to actors who work to take advantage of it to generate profits for themselves. These actors - "predatory open-access
- [Using Google Scholar in Anime/Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/12/04/using-google-scholar/) - Since its launch ten years ago, in October 2004, Google Scholar, Google's "free service [that] helps people search scholarly literature" has made a major impact on how we search for and access academic publications. Some things about Google Scholar are certain. Students at all levels from high schools to graduate departments - rely on it.
- [Manga and the Manga-esque: New Perspectives to a Global Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/12/01/manga-and-the-mangaesque/) - The Japanese Studies Program at Ateneo de Manila University (Manila, Philippines) has unveiled the full schedule for Manga and the Manga-esque: New Perspectives to a Global Culture, the program's 15th Annual International Conference on Japanese Studies. The conference will be held at Ateneo de Manila University on January 22 and 23, 2015, and this year,
- [Call for Papers - "Exploring 30 Years of Studio Ghibli: Spirited Discussions''](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/11/25/30-years-of-studio-ghibli/) - Cardiff University (Cardiff, Wales, UK) - April 18, 2015 Exploring 30 Years of Studio Ghibli: Spirited Discussions 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Studio Ghibli, and with that anniversary it is time to reflect on the domestic and global success of Japan’s most famous animation studio. With the retirements of Studio Ghibli’s most famous director,
- [Anime Director Bibliographies: Mamoru Oshii](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/11/24/mamoru-oshii/) - In almost any discussion about Japanese animation, the names of certain directors are bound to come up. Hayao Miyazki is easily the most obvious, but there are several others who have also received significant attention in English-language anime scholarship. Continuing my work in documenting the literature of anime/manga studies, I am pleased to present a
- [Legal Scholarship on Anime/Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/11/13/legal-scholarship/) - One of the most basic things to keep in mind about “anime/manga studies” is that it is not a discreet or formal academic area, discipline, or subject. It is frequently referred to as a “field” (especially in reviews of monographs and essay collections on anime/manga) – but it is certainly not an established, “institutionalized” academic
- [Anime/Manga Books and Their Covers](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/10/26/animemanga-books-and-their-covers/) - There is no way around this - books are judged by their covers. Readers judge. Corporate bookstore chain "buyers" (not customers, but rather, the corporate bookstore chain employees whose job it is to select the specific books that their particular bookstore chain will purchase from the publisher and put up on the shelves) judge. Librarians
- [Call for Proposals - 'Queers and Comics'](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/10/23/call-for-proposals-queers-and-comics/) - Queers and Comics: LGBT Cartoonists' Conference New York, NY - May 7-8, 2015 "Queers & Comics brings LGBTQ cartoonists, comics writers, and artists together with scholars and fans in order to document the history and significance of queer comics. This conference spotlights the veterans of LGBTQ cartooning in North America and internationally, with forums for
- [Manga Futures - 6th Int'l Scholarly Conference](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/10/08/manga-futures/) - The University of Wollongong and the International Manga Research Center (Kyoto Seika University) have unveiled the full schedule for this year's Manga Futures: Institutional and Fan Approaches in Japan and Beyond academic conference. This event will be held at the University of Wollongong, Australia, from October 31 to November 2. It will bring together leading
- [Call for Papers - 'Parody, Satire, and Humor in Superhero Narratives'](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/09/23/call-for-papers-parody-satire-and-humor-in-superhero-narratives/) - Northeast Modern Language Association, 46th Annual Convention Toronto, ON, Canada - April 30 - May 3 Comedy and Comics - Parody, Satire, and Humor in Superhero Narratives Stan Lee bristles at calling them “comic books,” lest readers think they are only “funny books.” This panel identifies how humor operates in works centered around superheroes—as parody,
- [Comment/Response: Bringing Anime to Academic Libraries](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/09/04/spotlight-on-new-publications-bringing-anime-to-academic-libraries/) - Ten or fifteen years ago, the idea that academic libraries should collect "sequential art" of any kind, whether comics, graphic novels, or manga was if not controversial, then at least cutting-edge. Since then, however, these kinds of materials have found wide acceptance in library collections, to the point that librarians are now publishing articles on
- [Researching Anime/Manga Scholars](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/09/01/researching-scholars/) - When conducting research on any topic, there are certain things that any researcher must keep in mind. One of these things has to do with the basic design of bibliographic access systems - library catalogs, scholarly databases, subject bibliographies. These systems are tools for locating "bibliographic units" - books, book chapters, and individual journal articles.
- [New Issue - Int'l Journal of Comic Art](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/08/26/ijoca-new-issue/) - The full table of contents for the latest (Spring 2014) issue of the International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA), the oldest and most well-established forum for English-language scholarship and research on all aspects of comics, graphic novels, caricature, strips, editorial and political cartoons, animation, and other related topics worldwide is now available at the IJOCA
- [Call for Papers: 'Diversity and Representation in Comics and Related Media'](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/08/25/uf-comics-studies/) - The University of Florida Comics Studies program is now accepting proposals for paper presentations at the 12th UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels. The dates for the conference will be April 10 to April 12, 2015, and the conference's title and theme is "Comics Read but Seldom Seen: Diversity and Representation in Comics and Related
- [The Graphic Novel - 3rd Global Conference (Sep. 3-5)](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/08/24/the-graphic-novel-3rd-global-conference-sep-3-5/) - Over any given year, scholars who are interested in presenting their work on comics (including manga) at academic conferences have several options available to them. The San Diego Comic-Con hosts its annual Comic Arts Conference. Mechademia: Conference on Asian Popular Culture (originally launched as Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits: Culture and Creation in Manga and Anime) is another
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2014 Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/08/22/annual-bibliography-of-anime-and-manga-studies-2014-ed/) - In my work documenting anime and manga studies as a discreet academic area by compiling an enumerative bibliography of scholarship on Japanese comics and animation - a project I started (I think) in the spring of my freshman year of college (2000) - my actual practices have changed very little over the years. Locate a
- [Call for Book Chapters - 'Cultures of Comics Work'](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/08/21/call-for-book-chapters-cultures-of-comics-work/) - "We welcome submissions from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and are particularly interested in underrepresented areas of comics scholarship, such as women in comics and comics outside the Anglo-American region.Possible topics include (but are not limited to):Cultures and/or experiences of work in the comics production, distribution, promotion, and consumption circuitTheorizing the cultural work
- [Call for Papers: Asian Popular Culture @ SWPCA 2015](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/08/20/call-for-papers-asian-popular-culture-swpca-2015/) - Proposals are now being accepted for the 36th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference, Feb 11-14, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our conference theme this year is “Many Faces Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture.” For more information, see http://www.southwestpca.org.Asian Popular Culture & The
- [Manga Scholarship in the Eisners - Conclusion](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/08/19/manga-scholarship-in-the-eisners-conclusion/) - Over two posts earlier this year, I discussed the list of nominees in the "Best Scholarly/Academic Work" category for the 2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - two essay collections with chapters on manga, and the International Journal of Comic Art, which has consistently published articles on various topics related to Japanese comics. The 2014
- [Anime and Manga Symposium Archives – 2014](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/08/18/anime-and-manga-symposium-archives-2014/) - In its fourth year, the Symposium featured an excellent mix of first-time and returning speakers, and a great balance, with presenters from colleges and universities around the U.S., as well as Canada and the U.K. Unlike typical scholarly conferences, the speakers included professors, graduate students, undergraduates, and non-academics, who were all able to draw on
- [Presentation: Intro to Anime and Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/08/17/presentation-intro-to-anime-and-manga-studies/) - This blog has been on hiatus since the spring. Since then, I successfully produced this year's AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, organized and presented an Introduction to Anime and Manga Studies panel at the Otakon convention, and am continuing working on a re-launch of the Online Bibliography of Anime and Manga Research as a
- [Publishing and Self-Publishing - Part 3](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/04/25/publishing-and-self-publishing-part-3/) - In my last two posts - Thoughts on Self-Publishing on Anime/Manga, Part 1 and Part 2, I raised the general question of whether it was possible for an author to produce and distribute his or her writing outside the established business structure of publishing, and went through some possible models. What I'd like to do
- [Self-Publishing on Anime/Manga - Part 2](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/04/22/self-publishing-on-animemanga-part-2/) - In my previous post, I discussed the standard way of publishing one's writing - through a for-profit publishing company or non-profit university press - and the alternative of self-publishing. But, are those the only options open to someone who is interested in writing a book on a topic related to anime/manga, and getting that book
- [Thoughts on Self-Publishing on Anime/Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/04/22/thoughts-on-self-publishing-on-animemanga/) - What are the options that an author interested in publishing a full-length book on anime/manga can reasonably pursue? And are publishers actually interested in books on anime/manga? The easy answer seems to be 'yes' - or at least, some publishers certainly are. Palgrave Macmillan, one of the most prominent English-language corporate/for-profit publishing houses, has published
- [Manga Scholarship in the Eisners - Update](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/04/17/manga-scholarship-in-the-eisners-update/) - In my earlier post about this year's nominations for the Eisner Awards Best Scholarly/Academic Work category, I mentioned the chapter on nouvelle manga in Drawing From Life: Memory and Subjectivity and Comic Art, and the many essays on Japanese comics that have appeared over the years in the International Journal of Comic Art. But I
- [Manga Scholarship in the 2014 Eisner Awards](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/04/16/manga-scholarship-in-the-2014-eisner-awards/) - In academic publishing - in any field or area - how do you differentiate between a good publication - and one that is truly extraordinary? One easy way is through citations - a paper that has been cited a hundred times is probably more influential than one that's only been cited a couple, or never
- [Spotlight on New Publications - The Hysterical Subject of Shojo](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/04/07/spotlight-on-new-publications-the-hysterical-subject-of-shojo/) - Puella Magi Madoka Magica is easily one of, if not the most memorable - and influential - anime series to run on Japanese television and expand outside Japan - in recent years. So far, however, responses to Madoka have been limited to reviews, blog and forum posts, and other personal reflections, not scholarship. This is
- [Anime and Manga Studies Symposium - Previous Years](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/04/06/anime-and-manga-studies-symposium-previous-years/) - My work in promoting, facilitating and supporting anime and manga studies involves several different kinds of activities. I am one of the founders of the Anime and Manga Research Circle, an informal community of academics, students, industry professionals and fans interested in studying Japanese animation and comics, and a moderator of the AMRC mailing list.
- [Anime and Manga Symposium Archives - 2013](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/04/05/anime-and-manga-symposium-archives-2013/) - By its third year, the Anime and Manga Studies Symposium was firmly established as a part of Anime Expo's programming. A highlight of the 2013 schedule were the guest lectures on the history of anime and manga studies in Japan presented by Dr. Akiko Sugawa-Shimada (Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan), and on the challenges of
- [Resource Review - Bonn Online Bibliography for Comics Research](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/04/04/resource-review-bonn-online-bibliography-for-comics-research/) - In searching for scholarly publications about anime and manga, the question of where to start the search is crucial and unavoidable. A broad database like Academic Search Premier or Academic OneFile covers a lot of what is available, but the "barrier" for coverage is very high, and many journals are not included - to say
- [University of Michigan Lecture/Workshop: More Information](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/31/university-of-michigan-lectureworkshop-more-information/) - Later this week, the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies will be hosting two programs on aspects of Japanese popular culture and its reception both in Japan and around the world. On Thursday, April 3, Mark McLelland will present a lecture on 'debates around fictional child characters in Japanese popular culture'. As announced earlier
- [Anime and Manga Symposium Archives - 2012](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/30/anime-and-manga-symposium-archives-2012/) - After the success of the first Anime and Manga Studies Symposium at the 2011 Anime Expo, it was clear that the idea of academic presentations included in the program of a major American anime convention was something that fans were ready to welcome. So, in the spring of 2012, I began planning to repeat the
- [Anime and Manga Studies in 2013 in Numbers](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/28/anime-and-manga-studies-in-2013-in-numbers/) - Trying to ask what exactly is meant by an academic discipline, field or area is a question that is almost so broad as to be meaningless. Of course, it's still a question that is asked plenty of times - as, for example, Paul Ward does in Animation studies, disciplinarity and discursitivity (Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary
- [2013 Anime/Manga Studies Bibliography](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/25/342/) - The largest and most prominent contribution that I make to anime and manga studies is compiling and editing the Online Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - a continuously expanding record of scholarly publications on Japanese animation and comics, anime fans, the industry, and related topics. The public version of the Bibliography is currently on
- [Who is Dani Cavallaro? - Part 2](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/21/who-is-dani-cavallaro-part-2/) - Part 1 At this point, what do we definitely know about Dani Cavallaro? She is the author of at least 22 books, including 13 on anime. These books are available at many academic libraries - the OCLC FirstSearch database indicates that more than 500 own copies of The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki. And her
- [Who is Dani Cavallaro? - Part 1](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/19/who-is-dani-cavallaro-part-1/) - When looking at any academic field, one particular feature that's worth examining is who exactly are the prominent - prolific and highly-cited - authors in this field. What colleges are they affiliated with, what are their positions and job titles, how did they end up where they are. In anime and manga studies, a few
- [The End of "Cool" Japan? (University of Michigan, Apr. 5)](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/18/event-announcement-the-end-of-cool-japan-ann-arbor-michigan-april-5/) - The End of "Cool" Japan?: Ethical, Legal, Political and Cultural Challenges for Japanese Popular Culture Teachers, Researchers and Students Organizers: University of Michigan Department of Screen Arts & Cultures and Center for Japanese Studies Location: University of Michigan, North Quad Space 2435 (Ann Arbor, MI) Date: April 5, 2014 This workshop addresses some pressing concerns
- [Spotlight on New Publications - Folktales and other references in Dragon Ball](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/17/spotlight-on-new-publications/) - One of the easiest, most straight-forward ways of finding new publications on topics related to anime or manga is simply to identify journals that have published anime/manga articles in the past, and pay attention to these journals' upcoming issues. Of course, plenty of times, a journal might feature an anime article once - and never
- [Where is the scholarship on the U.S. anime industry?](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/16/where-is-the-scholarship-on-the-u-s-anime-industry/) - The new March 2014 issue of the journal Pacific Affairs features, as one of the articles in its East Asian Cultural Industries special section, a paper by Nissim Otmazgin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on Anime in the US: The entrepreneurial dimensions of globalized culture. The article's abstract summarizes it as one that "[d]rawing on interviews
- [Highlighting New Journals - Journal of Popular Television](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/12/spotlight-on-new-journals-journal-of-popular-television/) - Anime and manga studies is a field that is inherently interdisciplinary. It intersects - and takes from - of course literature, film, and Japanese studies, but research on anime/manga can draw on theories and methods from dozens of other subjects. From law to developmental psychology, from library and information science to history, from folklore studies
- [Anime: A History - A Review Round-Up](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/08/anime-a-history-a-review-round-up/) - Fred Schodt wrote Manga! Manga!, the first English-language book on Japanese comics, more than 30 years ago. Easily several dozen "books on anime/manga" have been published since - and I have made the argument that by looking at these books, it's possible to trace the evolution of anime and manga studies - how authors write
- [Looking for - and finding - new writing on anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/06/looking-for-and-finding-new-writing-on-anime/) - Looking at anime and manga studies as a field requires paying attention to several things and asking several specific questions. Who are the some of the people writing on anime/manga. Are they mostly tenured/tenure-track professors, adjuncts, graduate students, "independent scholars"? What kinds of programs are they affiliated with? What kinds of degrees do they hold?
- [Familiar names, familiar titles - but new books!](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/05/familiar-names-familiar-titles-but-new-books/) - Just as anime in the U.S. is not nearly as "hot" or popular as it was in, say, 2006, the "size" or breadth of anime studies as a field has diminished significantly from a few years ago. For example, in 2010, there were at least 215 new scholarly publications on anime, manga and related topics
- [Spotlight on New Publications: Cultural Representations of Masculinity in Saint Seiya](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/05/spotlight-on-new-publications-cultural-representations-of-masculinity-in-saint-seiya/) - One of the goals of this blog is to promote and highlight new and noteworthy publications on anime and manga. And so, today marks the launch of the blog's first regular feature - a Spotlight on a New Publication in anime/manga studies. Piatt-Farnell, Lorna (2013). Blood, biceps, and beautiful eyes: Cultural representations of masculinity in
- [University of Tokyo "Media Mix" Summer Program](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/03/university-of-tokyo-media-mix-summer-program/) - The University of Tokyo is now accepting applications for the two-week residential 2014 Media Mix Summer Program, to be held from July 14 to July 26. Through lectures, workshops, field trips and other special activities, participants in this program will "understand the ways in which Japanese pop culture circulates across multiple media platforms and commodity
- [AX 2014 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium - CALL FOR PAPERS](https://www.animemangastudies.com/2014/03/03/ax-2014-anime-and-manga-studies-symposium-call-for-papers/) - The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2014 AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, a unique track of academic talks, presentations and panels that will be an integral part of the live programming at the largest anime convention in the United States.July 3 -

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- [Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/symposium/) - The Anime and Manga Studies Symposium is a track of academic presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that is held as a part of the program at Anime Expo, the largest gathering of fans of Japanese animation in the U.S. Since its start in 2011, the Symposium has featured speakers from colleges and universities around the
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2026](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2026-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional materials to include are always very much welcome! [updated: January 23, 2026] --- MONOGRAPHS --- ESSAY COLLECTIONS --- BOOK CHAPTERS --- ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES --- JOURNAL ARTICLES MONOGRAPHS *** NEW ***Martin, Daniel. BFI Film Classics: Kiki’s Delivery Service. London: Bloomsbury (forthcoming). *** NEW ***McCarthy, Helen.
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2025](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2025-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional materials to include are always very much welcome! [updated: January 1, 2026] --- Monographs --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters ------ Encyclopedia Articles --- Journal Articles MONOGRAPHS Exner, Eike. Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Horbinski, Andrea.
- [Director Bibliography - Makoto Shinkai](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/makoto-shinkai/) - This bibliography covers the scholarly publications on Makoto Shinkai and his works written in English that I am aware of. (Updated: January 26, 2026) 2026 Okuyama, Yoshiko. Japanese religions in film.In John C. Leyden (ed.). The Routledge companion to religions and film, second edition (pp. 287-306). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. "This chapter explores the intricate tapestry
- [College Classes on Anime/Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/resources/classes/) - One of the most common questions I face when introducing anime/manga studies as a field of both academic interest (i.e., research and scholarly publication) and academic activity (teaching) is whether colleges/universities in the U.S. even offer classes on Japanese animation and Japanese comics. The answer to this question is a strong yes - but, of
- [Thinking With Animation](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2021-bibliography/thinking-with-animation/) - Editors: Joff P.N. Bradley & Catherine Ju-yu Cheng Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1-5275-7166-1 Purchase:- Amazon- Cambridge Scholars Publishing Contents: Bradley, Joff P.N. & Cheng, Catherine Ju-Yu. Introduction: On the elemental forces in worlds of shadow and depth (pp. XXI-XXXI) Chapter 1: Bradley, Joff P.N. On the philosophy of wind: On madness and technology in
- [Cinema Anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2006-bibliography/cinema-anime/) - Editor: Steven T. Brown Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY) ISBN: 1-4039-4060-2 Contents: Brown, Steven T. Screening anime (pp. 1-20). Part I - Towards a cultural politics of anime Napier, Susan. "Excuse me, who are you?": Performance, the gaze, and the female in the works of Kon Satoshi (pp. 23-41). Levi, Antonia. The Americanization of
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2024](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2024-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional materials to include are always very much welcome! [updated: September 15, 2025] --- MONOGRAPHS --- ESSAY COLLECTIONS --- BOOK CHAPTERS --- JOURNAL SPECIAL/THEME ISSUES ---JOURNAL ARTICLES --- OTHER MONOGRAPHS Annett, Sandra. The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media. Minneapolis: University
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2012](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2012-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! Books --- Reference Guides --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters --- Journal Articles Books Cavallaro, Dani. Art in anime: The creative quest
- [Bibliographies of Anime and Manga Studies: 1990-1995](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/bibliographies-1990-1995/) - Since this list covers several years, the entries are arranged in reverse chronological order (from 1995 to 1991, none were published in 1990 or 1992), and then organized by type (books, book chapters, journal articles). As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to
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- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2020](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2020-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional titles to include are always very much welcome! Last Update: November 28, 2022 Monographs Alpert, Steve. Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli. Albany, CA: Stone Bridge Press. Berkowitz, Drew Emanuel. Framing School Violence and Bullying in Young Adult
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2023](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2023-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional items to include are always very much welcome! --- Monographs --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters--- Journal Special/Theme Issues --- Journal Articles --- Other Updated - September 14, 2025 MONOGRAPHS Clements, Jonathan. Anime: A History, 2nd Edition. London: Bloomsbury. Denison, Rayna. Studio Ghibli: An Industrial
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2022](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2022-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional items to include are always very much welcome! Updated: September 2, 2025. --- Monographs --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters ------ Journal Special/Theme Issues --- Journal Articles --- Other MONOGRAPHS Exner, Eike. Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History. New Brunswick, NJ:
- [Anime and Manga Studies Database](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/) - Search Publications Search Authors Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies 2020's:*** NEW *** 2026 2025 --- 2024 --- 2023 --- 2022 --- 2021 --- 2020 2010's:2019 --- 2018 --- 2017 --- 2016 --- 2015 --- 2014 --- 2013 --- 2012 --- 2011 --- 2010 2000's:2009 --- 2008 --- 2007 --- 2006 --- 2005 --- 2004
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- [Osamu Tezuka and His Works: A Bibliography of English-Language Scholarly/Academic Publications](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/osamu-tezuka/) - (Last Updated: January 2, 2026) Introduction It is always hard to come up with adequate words for the role that Osamu Tezuka played in the development of Japanese comics and Japanese animation. The epithets are plenty – “one of the most respected cultural figures of 20th century Japan”, “godfather” of anime/manga, “God of manga”, even
- [Browse](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/browse/) - Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies 2020's*** NEW *** 2026 --- 20252024 --- 2023 --- 2022 --- 2021 --- 2020 2010's:2019 --- 2018 --- 2017 --- 2016 --- 2015 --- 2014 --- 2013 --- 2012 --- 2011 --- 2010 2000's:2009 --- 2008 --- 2007 --- 2006 --- 2005 --- 2004 --- 2003 --- 2002 ---
- [Search Publications](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/search-publications/) - Use these forms to search for English-language scholarly publications on Japanese animation (anime) and Japanese comics (manga), including monographs, articles in peer-reviewed journals, and chapters in edited essay collections. The database currently contains records for over 4,400 individual publications, and more are added being added continuously. Search in [Title] for terms in the titles of
- [The Core Journals of Anime/Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/resources/the-core-journals-of-anime-manga-studies/) - One question I answer frequently is whether there are any academic/scholarly journals that specifically focus on anime and manga. For several years now, there is at least one, as well as another that presents itself as being open more broadly to "studying objects and practices that have developed around media forms associated with Japan". And
- [Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2021-bibliography/evangelion/) - "Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion aims at advancing the study of anime, understood as largely TV-based genre fiction rendered in cel, or cel-look, animation with a strong affinity to participatory cultures and media convergence. Taking Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shin Seiki Evangerion) as a case study, this volume acknowledges anime as a media form with clearly
- [The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2024-bibliography/handbook-of-music/) - "This handbook fills a substantial gap in the international academic literature on animation at large, on music studies, and on the aural dimensions of Japanese animation more specifically. It offers a unique contribution at the intersection between music and popular culture studies on the one hand, and research on Japanese animated productions (often called ‘anime’)
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2019](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2019-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional items to include are always very much welcome! Updated: November 21, 2022 Monographs Galbraith, Patrick W. Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Essay Collections Berndt, Jaqueline, Nagaike, Kazumi, & Ogi, Fusami (eds.), Shojo Across Media: Exploring "Girl"
- [Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2019-bibliography/womens-manga-in-asia/) - "Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women’s manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally. Based on the activities since 2009 of the Women’s MANGA Research Project in Asia (WMRPA), the edited volume elucidates social and historical
- [Women’s Voices in Manga: Japanese Cultural and Historical Perspectives](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2024-bibliography/womens-voices/) - "Women’s Voices in Manga investigates how manga reflect women's gender issues and social problems within the context of Japanese history, culture, and society. Manga illuminate how women have been treated stereotypically and confined to their gender roles. Fictional characters - surrogates for both creators and readers - have continuously challenged and subverted fixed cultural images, notions,
- [Manga!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2020-bibliography/visual-pop-culture/) - "This book explores the power of visual pop culture, in particular, manga, discussing theories and practices for incorporating its study into diverse educational disciplines. It presents the value of education through manga, showcasing ways in which manga can be a very useful pedagogical tool in educational curricula." Editors: Masami Toku & Hiromi Tsuchia Dollase Publisher:
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2021](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2021-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional items to include are always very much welcome! Updated: September 2, 2025 --- Monographs --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters ------ Special Issues --- Journal Articles --- Other Monographs Dudok de Wit, Alex. BFI Film Classics: Grave of the Fireflies. London: Bloomsbury. Grajdian, Maria Mihaela. Post-Cold-War Japanese
- [The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga: The Visual Literacy Of Statecraft](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2021-bibliography/the-representation-of-japanese-politics-in-manga/) - Editor: Roman Rosenbaum Publisher: Routledge (Abingdon, UK / New York, NY) Contents: Rosenbaum, Roman. Introduction: The political potential of manga (pp. 1-26) Greene, Barbara. Re-envisioning the Dark Valley and the decline of the peace state (pp. 27-45).[Attack on Titan; Fullmetal Alchemist; Inuyasha] Lewis, Michael. Kobayashi Yoshinori's Just War and unjust peace: Senso-ron, arrogant-ism, and selected
- [Leiji Matsumoto: Essays on the Manga and Anime Legend](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2021-bibliography/leiji-matsumoto/) - Editors: Helen McCarthy & Darren-John Ashmore Publisher: McFarland & Co. ISBN: 978-1-4766-7996-9 Purchase:- Amazon- Barnes & Noble- McFarland & Co.- Powell's- RightStufAnime.com- Waterstones- WHSmith Contents: Ashmore, Darren-John & McCarthy, Helen. Introduction (pp. 7-12). McCarthy, Helen. Leiji Matsumoto: A life in context (pp. 13-28). Ashmore, Darren-John. Sailing a sea of stars: Growth and change in Matsumoto's
- [Anime, Philosophy, and Religion](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2023-bibliography/anime-philosophy-and-religion/) - "Anime is exotic to Western eyes and culture. That is one of the reasons anime has gained worldwide popularity. This strange aesthetic draws the audience in only to find it is deeper and more sophisticated than its surface appearance. Japan is an honor and shame culture. Anime provides a platform to discuss “universal” problems facing
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2017](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2017-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional items to include are always welcome! [Updated: June 12, 2023] Books Bridges, Rose. Yoko Kanno's Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Daliot-Bul, Michal, & Otmazgin, Nissim. The anime boom in the United States: Lessons for global creative industries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- [Anime, Religion, and Theology](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2025-bibliography/anime-religion-and-theology/) - Editors: David Armstrong & Roberto J. De La Noval Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN:- 978-1-978-71491-5 (hardcover)- 9798216251422 (e-book, PDF)- 9798216276081 (e-book, epub/mobi) Online access:doi.org/10.5040/9798216200185 Purchase: - Amazon- Bloomsbury Contents - Armstrong, David, & De La Noval, Roberto. Introduction (pp. 1-22). Part 1: Magical Girls, Liberation, Theodicy. De La Noval, Roberto. Demonic compassion: The suffering of innocents in
- [Director Bibliography - Satoshi Kon](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/director-bibliography-satoshi-kon/) - This bibliography collects English-language scholarly publications on Satoshi Kon and his works. Whenever possible, and if this is not clear from the title of an entry, the specific work or works that it discusses is noted. [last updated: November 2, 2025] 2025 Izumi, Katsuya. Transgender mothers and ikai in Japanese films.In Susan Liddy & Deirdre
- [Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, 2nd. Ed.](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2023-bibliography/introducing-japanese-popular-culture-2nd-ed/) - "Specifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, while reaching specialists and general readers, this second edition of Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture
- [Introducing Japanese Popular Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2018-bibliography/introducing-japanese-popular-culture/) - "Specifically designed for use on a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides a thorough analysis of the historical
- [Studio Ghibli Animation as Adaptations](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2025-bibliography/studio-ghibli-animation-as-adaptations/) - Investigating How The Japanese Animation Powerhouse Reimagines Stories Editors: Dominic J. Nardi & Keli Fancher Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN:- 979-8-765-1-27063 (hardcover)- 979-8-765-1-27087 (e-book, pdf)- 979-8-765-1-27094 (e-book, epub/mobi) Purchase:- Amazon- Bloomsbury Online Access:doi.org/10.5040/9798765127070 Contents Nardi, Dominic J., & Fancher, Keli. Introduction: Studio Ghibli animation as (re)creative adaptations (pp. 1-16) Faithfulness and Fidelity Seeger, River. Apocalyptic beauty:
- [The Many Worlds of Takahata Isao](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2025-bibliography/the-many-worlds-of-takahata-isao/) - Editors: Lindsay Coleman, Rayna Denison, & David Desser Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN:- 9-798-8807-0102-5(hardcover)- 9-798-8807-0106-3(e-book) Purchase- Amazon- University of Hawaii Online Access:doi.org/10.1515/9798880701049 Contents Coleman, Lindsay, Denison, Rayna, & Desser, David. Introducing Takahata Isao (pp. 1-24) McCarthy, Helen. Doing the Time Warp: Magical realism and community dynamics in the early films of a Twentieth-century Japanese
- [Neon Genesis Evangelion: A Bibliography of English-Language Scholarship](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/neon-genesis-evangelion/) - It is very rare for the New York Times to pay any attention to Japanese animation beyond Hayao Miyazaki's films. So, when the Times does highlight a new anime, or a new anime director, it's clear that we are dealing with something that is really out of the ordinary. And by all means, Neon Genesis
- [The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2024-bibliography/the-cambridge-companion-to-manga-and-anime/) - Editor: Jaqueline Berndt Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN:- 9781009009980 (paperback)- 9781316518793 (hardcover)- 9781009008341 (e-book) Purchase:- Amazon- Cambridge.org Online Access:- CambridgeCore Contents: Berndt, Jaqueline. Introduction. Two media forms in correlation (pp. 1-16). Part I - Claimed Origins and Overlooked Traditions 1. Berndt, Jaqueline. Premodern roots of story-manga? (pp. 19-30). 2. Stewart. Ronald. Newspaper comic strips: Laughs
- [Mechademia Vol. 12, No. 1 - Transnational Fandom](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2019-bibliography/mechademia-vol-12-no-1/) - Online access: - JSTOR- Project Muse Publisher: University of Minnesota Press(Minneapolis, MN) ISSN: 1934-2489 Guest Editor: Andrea Horbinski Contents: Horbinski, Andrea. Introduction: Media scholarship in the contact zone (pp. 1-8) Original essays on anime/manga and related topics: Horbinski, Andrea. What you watch is what you are: Early anime and manga fandom in the United States
- [Mechademia Second Arc Vol. 11.1: Childhood](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2018-bibliography/mechademia-second-arc-vol-11-1-childhood/) - Starting with its launch in 2005, Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts was the only regular English-language scholarly publication on topics related to Japanese animation and Japanese comics. However, following the 2016 World Renewal volume, publication paused for two years, with a restart in development, but with some changes. Going
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2018](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2018-bibliography/) - This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional items to include are always welcome! Monographs Al-Alosi, Hadeel. The criminalisation of fantasy material: Law and sexually explicit representations of fantasy children. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Bolton, Christopher. Interpreting anime. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press *** OPEN ACCESS ***Greenberg, Raz. Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the early
- [Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2022-bibliography/queer-transfigurations/) - Editors: James Welker & Alison Alexy Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN:9780824888992 (hardcover) /9780824892845 (paperback) Online access- De Gruyter- JSTOR Purchase:- Amazon- University of Hawai'i Press Contents: Welker, James. Introduction: Boys Love (BL) media and its Asian transfigurations (pp. 1-16). Xu Yanrui, & Yang Ling. Between BL and slash: Danmei fiction, transcultural mediation, and changing
- [The Future of Humans and Emotional Machines](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2025-bibliography/the-future-of-humans-and-emotional-machines/) - Editor: Elena Giannoulis Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: July 17, 2025Copyright: 2026 ISBN:978-1-032-94405-0 (hardcover)978-1-032-94423-4 (paperback)978-1-003-57065-3 (e-book) Online Access:doi.org/10.4324/9781003570653*** OPEN ACCESS *** Purchase:- Amazon- Routledge Contents: Giannoulis, Elena. Introduction: Astro Boy's grandchildren - of longing, disappointment, and new heroes in Japan (pp. 1-12). Nishimura, Keiko. Representations of emotional capacity in human-robot interaction: From Astro Boy to Pepper
- [Director Bibliography – Isao Takahata](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/director-bibliography-isao-takahata/) - Western audiences are not as familiar with the name of Isao Takahata (1935-2018) as they are with that of his colleague and the other co-founder of Studoi Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki. But Takahata's work as a creator and director has also attracted a significant amount of scholarly and critical attention: (Updated: August 10, 2025) Monographs and
- [Creator Bibliography - Shigeru Mizuki](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/creator-bibliography-shigeru-mizuki/) - This bibliography covers English-language scholarly publications on Shigeru Mizuki and his works, and will be updated on a continuing basis as I identify new items to add. Last update: July 6, 2025 2024 Brookes, Gareth. Stylistic co-existence and the chronotope in Stone Fruit and Onwards Towards our Noble Deaths. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics,
- [Director Bibliography – Mamoru Hosoda](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/director-bibliography-mamoru-hosoda/) - The January 2022 U.S. theatrical premiere of Belle, Mamoru Hosoda's latest film, has made him one of the most recognizable directors of Japanese animation to Western critics and audiences, especially among those who are currently active. But how have scholars responded to Hosoda's work so far? This bibliography collects academic publications (primarily journal articles) on
- [Resources](https://www.animemangastudies.com/resources/) - College Classes on Anime/Manga Colleges/universities around the U.S. have been offering classes on Japanese animation and Japanese comics for close to 20 years now. This directory compiles many of these classes, their course descriptions, profiles, syllabi/reading lists, and, as possible, any coverage they receive in the media. *** NEW ***Spring 2025 classes The Core Journals
- [Bibliographies of Anime and Manga Studies: 1950's - 1980's](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/bibliographies-1950s-1980s/) - This list covers the few English-language books, book chapters, and journal articles on anime/manga that were published before the 1990's - the earliest ones that I have been able to locate so far are two chapters in an essay collection that appeared in 1959. As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2015](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2015-bibliography/) - This list will be updated continuously.Last update: May 26, 2025. --- Monographs --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters--- Encyclopedia Entries --- Journal Special Issues --- Journal Articles MonographsTotal published: 8 Berndt, Jaqueline. Manga: Medium, art and material. Leipzig, Germany: Leipziger Universitatsverlag.[ed. note: Some of the individual chapters are in English, others in German] Buljan, Katharine,
- [Japanese Animation in Asia: Transnational Industry, Audiences, and Success](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2022-bibliography/japanese-animation-in-asia/) - Editors: Macro Pellitteri & Wong Heung Wah Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781138566460 Purchase: - Amazon- Routledge Online Access:- Taylor & Francis eBooks Contents: Wong, Heung Wah. Introduction (pp. 1-16) Part I: Background and working concepts on Japanese animation Pellitteri, Marco. History and media discourse: Key notions to understand 'anime' (pp. 19-56). Hernández Hernández, Álvaro David. Industry
- [Neon Genesis Evangelion and Philosophy: That Syncing Feeling](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2022-bibliography/neon-genesis-evangelion-and-philosophy/) - Editors: Christian Cotton & Andrew M. Winters Publisher: Carus Books ISBN: 978-1-63770-004-4 Purchase:- Amazon- Barnes & Noble Contents: Winters, Andrew M. The consolation of anime. I. Finding meaning in instrumentality. Browning, Heather & Veit, Walter. The desperate search for meaning in life Visser, Nathan, & Barkman, Adam. How do we know who we are? Yasuyuki,
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2016](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2016-bibliography/) - This Bibliography will be updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional items to include are very much welcome! Last updated: November 20, 2022 --- Monographs --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters--- Encyclopedia Entries --- Journal Special Issues --- Journal Articles Monographs Brienza, Casey. Manga in America: Transnational book publishing and the domestication of Japanese
- [Director Bibliography - Mamoru Oshii](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/director-bibliography-mamoru-oshii/) - This bibliography covers English-language scholarly publications on Mamoru Oshii as an anime director or screenwriter. It specifically does not include scholarship on his live-action films, the “anime live-action hybrid feature” Avalon, or his Blood: The Last Vampire – Night of the Beasts novel. Whenever possible, and if this is not clear for the title of
- [College Classes on Anime and Manga - Spring 2025](https://www.animemangastudies.com/resources/classes/college-classes-on-anime-and-manga-spring-2025/) - Colleges and universities throughout the U.S. are now frequently offering classes on Japanese animation and Japanese comics. The purpose of this list is to illustrate the titles that these classes can have and the departments and programs that they can be offered under. It is not meant to be comprehensive, and if you are teaching
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- [The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2017-bibliography/the-end-of-cool-japan/) - ISBN: 978-1138638259Purchase: Amazon Online access: Taylor & Francis eBooks "This collection brings together Japan specialists in order to identify key challenges in using Japanese popular culture materials in research and teaching. It addresses issues such as the availability of unofficially translated and distributed Japanese material; the emphasis on adult-themes, violence, sexual scenes and under-age characters;
- [Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan: Historical Perspectives and New Horizons](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2015-bibliography/debating-otaku/) - "Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan disrupts the naturalization and trivialization of 'otaku' by examining the historical contingency of the term as a way to identify and contain problematic youth, consumers and fan cultures in Japan. Its chapters, many translated from Japanese and available in English for the first time...explore key moments in the evolving discourse
- [Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2013-bibliography/manga-introduction-challenges-and-best-practices/) - Editor: Melinda Beasi Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Milwaukee, OR) ISBN: 1616552786 / 9781616552787 Contents: Dacey, Katherine. What is manga? (pp. 5-24) Garrity, Shaenon. Shonen manga (pp. 25-44) Gaffney, Sean. Shojo manga (pp. 45-60) Chavez, Ed. Seinen manga (pp. 61-76) Garrity, Shaenon. Josei manga (pp. 77-87) Friedman, Erica. Yuri manga (pp. 89-93) Garrity, Shaenon. Boys' love
- [Anime / Manga Scholars](https://www.animemangastudies.com/resources/anime-manga-scholars/) - These are just some of the persons who are making major contributions to the development of anime and manga studies as an academic field through authoring monographs, editing essay collections, and teaching classes on Japanese animation and Japanese comics at the college/university level. Sandra AnnettAssociate Professor, Film StudiesWilfrid Laurier UniversityAuthor of Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural
- [Reading Manga: Local And Global Perceptions Of Japanese Comics](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2006-bibliography/reading-manga/) - Editors: Jaqueline Berndt & Steffi Richter Publisher: Leipzig, Germany: Leipziger Universitatsverlag ISBN: 978-3-86583-123-1 Contents: Berndt, Jaqueline. Foreword (pp. 7-18). I. Readings of Barefoot Gen Ito, Yu, & Otome, Tomoyuki. Barefoot Gen in Japan: An attempt at media history (pp. 21-38). Sabin, Roger. Barefoot Gen in the US and UK: Activist comic, graphic novel, manga (pp.
- [Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2018-bibliography/law-and-justice-in-japanese-popular-culture/) - "In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a significant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. From Pikachu, to instantly identifiable manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, and the hyper- consumerism of product tie-ins, Japan has bequeathed to a globalised world a rich variety of ways to imagine, communicate,
- [Manga Vision: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2016-bibliography/manga-vision-cultural-and-communicative-perspectives/) - ISBN: 978-1925377064Purchase: Amazon*** OPEN ACCESS TO COMPLETE VOLUME *** Editors: Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou & Cathy Sell Publisher: Monash University Publishing (Clayton, Victoria, Australia) Companion Website Contents: Pasfield-Neofitou, Sarah. Introduction - Tuning in to manga: Cultural and communicative perspectives (pp. 1-12). Section One: Appropriation and Expansion: Cultural Expression Langsford, Claire. Image to object, illustration to costume: Australian
- [Teaching Japanese Popular Culture](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2016-bibliography/teaching-japanese-popular-culture/) - ISBN: 978-0-924304-78-1Purchase: Amazon Editors: Deborah Shamoon & Chris McMorran Publisher: Association for Asian Studies (Ann Arbor, MI) Contents: Shamoon, Deborah & McMorran, Chris. Introduction (pp. 1-18) PART I. The Big Picture: On Curriculum Design McLaren, Sally, & Spies, Alwyn. Risk and potential: Establishing critical pedagogy in Japanese popular culture courses (pp. 19-44). Armour, William S.,
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- [Legal Scholarship on Anime/Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/legal-scholarship/) - (Last updated: May 15, 2023) As the global impact of Japanese popular culture has grown over the years, it is not surprising in the slightest that certain legal issues surrounding this area have arisen as well. The primary one among them is pervasive illegal copying and unauthorized distribution of manga and anime, both in Japan
- [About This Site](https://www.animemangastudies.com/about/) - The main goal of animemangastudies.com is to offer a central point of information about anime and manga studies as an actual academic field, and about approaching Japanese animation and Japanese comics as an academic subject in general. The site's main components are: Main Page:Announcements about new publications and events (lectures, seminars, conferences, etc.), evaluations of
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- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2003](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2003-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! Books --- Book Chapters --- Encyclopedia Articles Journal Special/Theme Issues --- Journal Articles --- Other Publications Books Total published: 1 Drazen, Patrick.
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2005](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2005-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! --- Books --- Book Chapters --- Articles --- Other Publications Books (Total published: 1) Napier, Susan J. Anime from Akira to Howl's
- [Roundtable - Welcome to Anime/Manga Studies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/roundtable/) - TUESDAY, November 212:00 p.m. (Eastern time)https://tinyurl.com/mvzedsxm (Zoom) Ever thought about writing a college paper on themes and images in Attack on Titan?Wanted to take a class on the history of girls' manga?Are intrigued by a book on the many different ways that Japanese manga authors have adapted characters and images from Alice in Wonderland? Just
- [Mechademia Vol. 2: Networks of Desire](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2007-bibliography/mechademia-vol-2-networks-of-desire/) - Purchase Online access JSTOR Project Muse Editor: Frenchy Lunning Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN) ISBN: 978-0-8166-54 Contents: Lunning, Frenchy, & Lamarre, Thomas. Introduction: Art mecho (p. ix). Original essays on anime/manga and related topics Shamoon, Deborah. "The Rose of Versailles" and the transformation of shojo manga (pp. 3-17). Toku, Masami. Shojo manga! Girls'
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2008](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2008-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! --- Books --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters --- Journal Special/Theme Issues --- Articles --- Other Publications Books (Total published: 4) Black,
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2009](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2009-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! --- Books --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters --- Journal Special/Theme Issues --- Articles --- Other Publications Books (Total published: 13) Azuma,
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2014](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2014-bibliography/) - Last updated: February 22, 2020 New Additions: Matsui, Takeshi. Nation branding through stigmatized popular culture: The "Cool Japan" craze among central ministries in Japan. Editor's note: As with all annual editions of the Bibliography, this list is not necessarily comprehensive or absolute, and there may be books, chapters, or articles on anime/manga that were published
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2007](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2007-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! --- Books --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters --- Journal Special/Theme Issues --- Articles --- Other Publications Books (Total published: 7) Brenner,
- [Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2011-bibliography/mangatopia/) - Editors: Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog Publisher: Libraries Unlimited (Santa Barbara, CA) ISBN: 978-1-59158-908-2 Contents: Perper, Timothy & Cornog, Martha. Introduction to a semiotic revolution: It may not be Kansas any more but it is the Kansai (pp. xv-xx). Part I: Art in Contexts Ito, Kinko. Chikai Ide, the queen of Japanese ladies' comics: Her
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- [Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2008-bibliography/japanese-visual-culture/) - Editor: Mark W. MacWilliams Publisher: M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY) ISBN: 978-0-765-1602-2 (hardcover) 978-0-7656-1602-9 (paperback) Contents: Schodt, Frederik L. Foreword: Japan's new visual culture (pp. vii-ix) MacWilliams, Mark W. Introduction (pp. 3-25) Ito, Kinko. Manga in Japanese history (pp. 26-47) Poitras, Gilles. Contemporary anime in Japanese pop culture (pp. 48-67) Phillips, Susanne. Characters, themes and narrative
- [Shojo Across Media: Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2019-bibliography/shojo-across-media/) - "Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shōjo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two
- [Comics Worlds and the World of Comics](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2010-bibliography/comics-world/) - Towards Scholarship on a Global Scale *** OPEN ACCESS *** Editor: Jaqueline Berndt Publisher: International Manga Research Center (Kyoto, Japan) ISBN: 978-4-905187-01-1 The essays in this volume are based on presentations at the International Manga Research Center's First International Conference (Dec. 18-Dec. 20, 2009) Contents: Berndt, Jaqueline, Introduction: Attempts at cross-cultural manga studies (pp. 5-16)
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2013](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2013-bibliography/) - (Last updated: March 24, 2019) Monographs --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters --- Journal Special Issues --- Journal Articles Regardless of my editorial efforts, it is also very likely that the Bibliography does not cover the entire range of scholarship on anime/manga that was published in 2013. It is inherently impossible to achieve a 100%
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2011](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2011-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! --- Books --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters --- Encyclopedia Entries --- Journal Special/Theme Issues --- Journal Articles Books (total published: 7)
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2002](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2002-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! Book Chapters — Journal Special/Theme Issues — Articles Book Chapters (Total published: 7) Allison, Anne. Playing with power: Morphing toys and transforming
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- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2004](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2004-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! Books --- Book Chapters --- Articles --- Other Publications Books Total published: 3 Gravett, Paul. Manga: Sixty years of Japanese comics. London:
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2010](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2010-bibliography/) - (Updated April 4, 2018) As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! --- Books --- Essay Collections --- Book Chapters --- Encyclopedia Entries --- Journal Special/Theme Issues --- Articles Books
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- [Call for Papers: AX 2017 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/symposium/cfp-ax-2017/) - www.anime-expo.org #AX2017 #AnimeSymposium AX 2017 ANIME AND MANGA STUDIES SYMPOSIUM / AX ACADEMIC PROGRAM CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: May 19, 2017 The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, the parent organization of Anime Expo (AX), the largest anime convention in the U.S., is inviting proposals for presentations and panel discussions for the 2017
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- [Rewriting History in Manga: Stories for the Nation](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2016-bibliography/rewriting-history/) - Editors: Nissim Otmazgin & Rebecca Suter Publisher: Palgrave Mamillan (New York) Contents: Otmazgin, Nissim. Introduction: Manga as "banal memory" (pp. 1-26). Part 1: Historicizing Political Manga Lewis, Michael. Kitazawa Rakuten as popular culture provocateur: Modern manga images and riotous democracy in early twentieth-century Japan (pp. 29-56). Shaughnessy, Orna. Early Meiji manga: The political cartoons of
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- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 2000](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2000-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! Books Total Published: 2 Kinsella, Sharon. Adult manga: Culture and power in contemporary Japanese society. Richmond, Great Britain: Curzon. Poitras, Gilles. Anime
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- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 1998](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/1998-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! Book Chapters Total Published: 7 Gill, Tom. Transformational magic: Some Japanese super-heroes and monsters. In Dolores P. Martinez (Ed.), The worlds of
- [Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2006-bibliography/tezuka/) - Editor: Philip Brophy Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria (Victoria, Australia) ISBN: 0-7241-0278-7 This volume was published in connection with the exhibition of the same name which was hosted at the National Gallery of Australia from Nov. 3, 2006 to Jan. 28, 2007. It contains two original essays, and several translations of materials previously published in
- [Mechademia Vol. 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2006-bibliography/mechademia-vol-1/) - Purchase Online access JSTOR Project Muse Editor: Frenchy Lunning Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN) ISBN: 978-0-166-4945-7 Contents: Lunning, Frenchy, & Bolton, Christopher. Anifesto (pp. 1-9). Original essays on anime/manga and related topics Allison, Anne. The Japan fad in global youth culture and millennial capitalism (pp. 11-21). Wong, Wendy Siuyi. Globalizing manga: From Japan
- [The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Miyazaki](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2009-bibliography/japanification/) - Editor: Mark I. West Publisher: Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD) ISBN: 978-0-8108-5121-4 (paperback) Contents: West, Mark I. Introduction (pp. vii-xi) Chapters on anime/manga and related topics Patten, Fred. The allure of anthropomorphism in manga and anime (pp. 41-52). Elza, Cary. We all live in a Pokemon world: Animated utopia for kids (pp. 53-72). Pizzato, Mark. Pokemon
- [Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies - 1996](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/1996-bibliography/) - As with all editions of the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies, it is likely that this list is not complete. Recommendations or suggestions for additional entries to add are always welcome! --- Books --- Book Chapters --- Articles Books (Total published: 3) Lent, John A. Comic art in Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Latin
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- [Mechademia Vol. 3: Limits of the Human](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2008-bibliography/mechademia-vol-3-limits-of-the-human/) - Purchase Online access JSTOR Project Muse Editor: Frenchy Lunning Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN) ISBN: 978-0-8166-54 Contents: Lunning, Frenchy. Preface: The limits of the human (pp. ix-x). Bolton, Christopher. Introduction: The limits of "The limits of the human" (pp. xi-xiv) Wolfe, Cary: Postcript: On "the living" (p. 255). Original essays on anime/manga and
- [Mechademia Vol. 4: War/Time](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2009-bibliography/mechademia-vol-4-wartime/) - Online access JSTOR Project Muse *** OPEN ACCESS *** Editor: Frenchy Lunning Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN) ISBN: 978-0-8166-06749-9 Contents: Lamarre, Thomas. Preface (pp. ix-xiv). Original essays on anime/manga and related topics Walker, Gavin. The filmic time of coloniality: On Shinkai Makoto's The Place Promised in Our Early Days (pp. 3-18). Inouye, Rei
- [Anime and Manga Studies Symposium - 2015](https://www.animemangastudies.com/symposium/anime-and-manga-studies-symposium-2015/) - Schedule - PDF Schedule - Word Keynote Address: Mukokuseki: Teaching Anime in a Borderless World David M. Desser Professor Emeritus, Cinema Studies University of Illinois David Desser is Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Illinois. He received his PhD in cinema from USC and has also taught at the University of Michigan, the University
- [Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan:](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2015-bibliography/boys-love-manga-and-beyond/) - Editors: Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma and James Welker Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (Jefferson, MS) ISBN: 978-1-6284-6119-0 Contents: McLelland, Mark, & Welker, James. An introduction to "Boys Love" in Japan (pp. 3-20). Hartley, Barbara. A genealogy of Boys Love: The gaze of the girl and the bishonen body in the prewar images of
- [Call for Papers: AX 2015 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium](https://www.animemangastudies.com/symposium/2015-cfp/) - July 2 - July 5 Anime Expo 2015 Los Angeles Convention Center (Los Angeles, CA) Submission Deadline: April 15, 2015 The AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium is the premier international forum for academic discussion about Japanese visual culture and the worldwide popularity and impact of anime and manga. It welcomes a wide range of
- [Mechademia Vol. 9: Origins](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2014-bibliography/mechademia-vol-9-origins/) - Online access JSTOR --- Project Muse Editor: Frenchy Lunning Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN) ISBN: 978-0-8166-9535-5 Contents: Bolton Christopher. Introduction: (pp. xi-xv). Original essays on anime/manga and related topics Long, Margherita. Hagio Moto's nuclear manga and the promise of eco-feminist desire (pp. 3-23). [Nanohana, Star Red] Roquet, Paul. Carbon as creation: On Tsuji
- [Mechademia Vol. 5: Fanthropologies](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2010-bibliography/fanthropologies/) - Online access JSTOR --- Project Muse Editor: Frenchy Lunning Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN) ISBN: 978-0-8166-7387-2 Contents: Lamarre, Thomas. Introduction: (pp. ix-xi). Original essays on anime/manga and related topics Ruh, Brian. Transforming U.S. anime in the 1980's: Localization and longevity (pp. 31-49). Lamarre, Thomas. Speciesism, part II: Tezuka Osamu and the multispecies ideal
- [Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2010-bibliography/boys-love-manga/) - Editors: Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry and Dru Pagliassotti Publisher: McFarland (Jefferson, NC) ISBN: 978-0-7864-4195-2 Contents: Levi, Antonia, Introduction (pp. 1-8) Part One: Boys' Love and Global Publishing Donovan, Hope. Gift versus capitalist economies: Exchanging anime and manga in the U.S. (pp. 11-22). Malone, Paul M. From BRAVO to Animexx.de to export: Capitalizing on German Boys’
- [Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2010-bibliography/manga-an-anthology/) - Editors: Toni Johnson-Woods Publisher: Continuum (New York) ISBN: 978-0-8264-2938-4 Contents: Johnson-Woods, Toni. Introduction (pp. 1-14) Manga and Genres Bouissou, Jean-Marie. Manga: A historical overview (pp. 17-33). Bryce, Mio & Davis, Jason. An overview of manga genres (pp. 34-61). Drummond-Matthews, Angela. What boys will be: A study of shonen manga (pp. 62-76). McLelland, Mark. The "beautiful
- [Anime and Philosophy: Wide Eyed Wonder](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2010-bibliography/anime-and-philosophy/) - Editors: Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin Publisher: Open Court (Chicago, IL) ISBN: 978-0-8126-9670-7 This title, along with its companion volume Manga and Philosophy is published in Open Court Publishing Company's Popular Culture and Philosophy series of essay collections. The books in this series present "essays by academic philosophers exploring the meanings, concepts, and puzzles
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- [Mechademia Vol. 6: User Enhanced](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2011-bibliography/mechademia-vol-6-user-enhanced/) - Online access JSTOR --- Project Muse Editor: Frenchy Lunning Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN) ISBN: 978-0-8166-7734-4 Contents: Lamarre, Thomas. Introduction: (pp. ix-xvi). Original essays on anime/manga and related topics Lunning, Frenchy. Under the ruffles: Shojo and the morphology of power (pp. 3-19). Penney, Matthew. Exploited and mobilized: Poverty and work in contemporary manga
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- [Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2012-bibliography/fandom-unbound/) - Editors: Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Izumi Tsuji Publisher: Yale University Press (New Haven, CT) ISBN: 978-0-300-15864-9 Contents: Ito, Mizuki. Introduction (pp. xi-xxxi). Essays on anime, manga, and related topics: Azuma, Hiroki. Database animals (pp. 30-67). This chapter previously appeared in English as a section in Azuma, Hiroki (2009) Japan's database animals (pp. 25-62). Eng,
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- [Manga's Cultural Crossroads](https://www.animemangastudies.com/database/2013-bibliography/mangas-cultural-crossroads/) - Manga's Cultural Crossroads Editors: Jaqueline Berndt and Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer Publisher: Routledge (New York) ISBN: 0415504503 / 9780415504508 Contents: Berndt, Jaqueline. Studying manga across cultures (pp. 1-18) Schodt, Frederik. The view from North America: Manga as late-twentieth-century Japonisme? (pp. 19-26) Stewart, Ronald. Manga as schism: Kitazawa Rakuten's resistance to "old-fashioned" Japan (pp. 27-49) Suzuki, Shigeru. Tatsumi

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