This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional items to include are always welcome!
[Updated: September 30, 2021]
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.
Essay Collections
McLelland, Mark (ed.), The end of Cool Japan: Ethical, legal, and cultural challenges to Japanese popular culture. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Book Chapters
Berndt, Jaqueline. Manga meets science: Going beyond the education-entertainment divide.
In Reinhold Leinfelder, et al. (eds.). Science meets comics: Proceedings of the Symposium on Communicating and Designing the Future of Food in the Anthropocene (pp. 41-59). Berlin: Christian A. Bachmann Verlag.
Berndt, Jaqueline. Pictures that come to life: The Hokusai manga
In Hokusai. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria (pp. 21-27).
Boyer-Degoul, Maxime. Hallucinations of present future: Futuristic patterns through images in Japanimation works.
In Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic, & Frank Bramlett (eds.). Visions of the future in comics: International perspectives (pp. 85-100). Jefferson, NC.
Brau, Lorie. Oishinbo’s Fukushima elegy: Grasping for the truth about radioactivity in a food manga.
In Barbara Geilhorn & Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt (eds.). Fukushima and the arts: Negotiating nuclear disaster (pp. 17-31). Abingon, UK: Routledge.
Buljan, Katharine. Spirituality-struck: Anime and religiou-spiritual devotional practices.
In Carole M. Cusack & Pavol Kosnac (eds.). Fiction, invention and hyper-reality: From popular culture to religion (pp. 101-118). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chang, Weijung. Exploring the significance of “Japaneseness”: A case study of fujoshi‘s BL fantasies in Taiwan.
In Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, & Jing Jamie Zhao (eds.). Boys’ Love, cosplay, and androgynous idols: Queer fan cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (pp. 179-194). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Cortes, Reslie. Bleach in color: Unpacking gendered, queered, and raced performances in anime.
In Satoshi Tayosaki & Shinsuke Eguchi (eds.). Intercultural communication in Japan: Theorizing homogenizing discourse (pp. 86-98). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Craig, Tim, Adams, Mike, Kesslering, Joe, & Iftner, Niko. The Japanese anime industry: Studio Trigger finds its mark.
In Tim Crag (ed.). Cool Japan: Case studies from Japan’s cultural and creative industries (pp. 151-182). Ashiya, Japan: BlueSky Publishing.
Denison, Rayna. Anime’s star voices: Voice actor (seiyu) performance and stardom in Japan.
In Tom Whittaker & Sarah Wriged (eds.). Locating the voice in film: Critical approaches and global practices (pp. 101-118). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Disher, Thomas, Jett, Jacob, & Lee, Jin Ha. Investigating the status of anime collections in public libraries.
In Wjatscheslaw Sterzer (ed.). iConference 2017 Proceedings (pp. 561-567). Grandville, MI: iSchools.
Grajdian, Maria Mihaela. Mythical serenity prayer: Ecology, ethnic humor and the praise of conviviality in the anime movie Ponpoko: The Heisei Tanuki War (1994).
In Maria-Luiza Dimitru Oancea & Ramona Mihaila (eds.). Myth, symbol and ritual: Elucidatory paths to the fantastic unreality (pp. 299-320). Bucharest: Editura Universitatii du Bucuresti.
Hayashi, Naoto, & Yamada, Masashi. A perceptual study of robot design in the Japanese robot anime series, “Mobile Suit Gundam”.
In WongJoo Chun & Cliff Sungsoo Shin (eds.). Advances in affective and pleasurable design (pp. 139-145). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International.
Heise, Ursula K. Environment, technology, and modernity in contemporary Japanese animation.
In Steven Hartman (ed.), Contesting environmental imaginaries: Nature and counternature in a time of global change (pp. 117-135). Amsterdam: Brill.
Ito, Mizuko. Ethics of fansubbing in anime’s hybrid public culture.
In Jonathan Gray, Cornell Sandvoss, & C. Lee Harrington (eds.). Fandom: Identities and communities in a mediated world, Second Edition (pp. 333-353). New York: New York University Press.
Josephy-Hernandez, Daniel E. Fansubbing hentai anime: Users, distribution, censorship and ethics.
In David Orrego-Carmona & Yvonne Lee (eds.). Non-professional subtitling (pp. 171-198). Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Kern, Adam L. East Asian comix: Intermingling Japanese manga and Euro-American comics.
In Frank Bramlett, Roy T. Cook, & Aaron Meskin (eds.). The Routledge companion to comics (pp. 106-115). New York: Routledge.
Mahmutovic, Adnan, & Nunes, Denise Ask. Maxime miranda in minimis: the anthropocene in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
In Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic, & Frank Bramlett (eds.). Visions of the future in comics: International perspectives (pp. 172-191). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Malecki, Grzegorz. Different notions of fatherhood in anime series Naruto and in the first part of Karl Ove Knausgard’s autobiographical novel My Struggle.
In Anna Pilinska (ed.). Fatherhood in contemporary discourse: Focus on fathers (pp. 206-216). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Mariotti, Marcella. Engaged foreign language pedagogy: Translating Hadashi no Gen.
In Kazashi Nobuo & Marcella Mariotti (eds.). New steps in Japanese studies (pp. 157-173). Venice: Edizione Ca’ Foscari.
Martin, Fran. Girls who love Boys’ Love: BL as goods to think with in Taiwan (with a revised and updated coda).
In Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, & Jing Jamie Zhao (eds.). Boys’ Love, cosplay, and androgynous idols: Queer fan cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (pp. 195-220). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Mazur, Dan, & Danner, Alexander. The international graphic novel.
In Stephen E. Tabachnik (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel (pp. 58-79). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Miller, Lucy J. Ishihara Shintaro’s manga moral panic: The homogenizing rhetoric of Japanese nationalism.
In Satoshi Tayosaki & Shinsuke Eguchi (eds.). Intercultural communication in Japan: Theorizing homogenizing discourse (pp. 145-158). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Nakamura, Konoyu. Archetypal images in Japanese anime: Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers).
In Elizabeth Brodersen & Michael Glock (eds.). Jungian perspectives on rebirth and renewal: Phoenix rising (pp. 207-218). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Napier, Susan. Where shall we adventure? Robert Louis Stevenson meets Hayao Miyazaki.
In William Roger Louis (ed.). Effervescent adventures with Britannia: Personalities: politics and culture in Britain (pp. 71-82). London: I.B. Tauris.
Nobis, James. Lolicon: Adolescent fetishization in Osamu Tezuka’s Ayako.
In Mark Heidermann & Brittany Tullis (eds.). Picturing childhood: Youth in transnational comics (pp. 148-162). Austin: University of Texas Press.
Oberprantacher, Andreas. Living in a state of abandonment: The anime Vexille’s supplementary apocalypse.
In Jeremiah L. Alberg (ed.). Apocalypse deferred: Girard and Japan (pp. 136-148). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
Occhi, Debra. Where Japanese and Occidental cultural conceptualisations meet: Reading manga which anthropomorphise nations as kyara ‘characters’ through the lens of cultural linguistics.
In Farzad Shafijian (ed.). Advances in cultural linguistics (pp. 561-572). Singapore: Springer Nature.
Oosawa, Shizuka, & Yamada, Masashi. Impression of characters in the Japanese magical girl metaseries “Pretty Cure”.
In WongJoo Chun & Cliff Sungsoo Shin (eds.). Advances in affective and pleasurable design (pp. 165-170). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International.
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Peres, Catia, Corte-Real, Eduardo, & Estela Graca, Maria. Strange creatures – physiology of characters in Spirited Away.
In Proceedings, CONFIA 2017: 5th International Conference on Illustration and Animation (pp. 332-345). Barcelos, Portugal: Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave.
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Ristola, Jacqueline. Blood, sweat, ink and tears: Exploitation of labour in the Japanese animation industry.
In Mark P. Thomas, Jordan House, & Loren March (eds.). Symposium
Proceedings: GLRC Graduate Student Symposium 2016 (pp. 85-93). Toronto: Global Labour Research Centre.
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Shuhail, Maitha, & Koshy, Swapna. The UAE’s tryst with anime: An evaluation.
In Ulkter Ogutveren, Eva Frydkova, & Valentina Mihaela Pomazan (eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Humanities and Management (ICHM-17) (pp. 109-112).
Theisen, Nicholas A. Manga studies: A history.
In Matthew J. Smith & Randy Duncan (eds.). The secret origins of comics studies (pp. 190-201). New York: Routledge.
Yagi, Chiemi, & Pierce, Philip L. Imagination, anime, and Japanese tourism abroad.
In Philip L. Pearce & Mao-Ying Wu (eds.) The world meets Asian tourists (pp. 267-286). Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Yang, Ling. “The world of Grand Union”: Engendering trans/nationalism via Boys’ Love in online Chinese Hetalia fandom.
In Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, & Jing Jamie Zhao (eds.). Boys’ Love, cosplay, and androgynous idols: Queer fan cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (pp. 45-62). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Yang, Ling, & Xu, Yanrui. Chinese danmei fandom and cultural globalization from below.
In Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, & Jing Jamie Zhao (eds.). Boys’ Love, cosplay, and androgynous idols: Queer fan cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (pp. 3-19). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Journal Articles
Total published: 95
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Allison, Brent. Japanese animation as moral instruction: A Bourdieusian perspective of rural aspiring teachers’ and urban anime fans’ instrumentalist pedagogies. Urbana: Urban Affairs & Public Policy, 18, 16-25.
Anderson, David, Shimizu, Hiroyuki, & Iwasaki, Shota. Memories of manga: Impact and nostalgic recollections of visiting a manga museum. Curator: The Museum Journal, 60(4), 505-525.
Baudinette, Thomas. Japanese gay men’s attitudes towards ‘gay manga’ and the problem of genre. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 3(1), 59-72.
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Berndt, Jaqueline. Reflections: Writing comics into art history in contemporary Japan. Journal of Art History, 86(1), 67-74.
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Bolton, Matthew. “Like oil and water”: Adaptation as textuality, intertextuality, and metatextuality in Lady Snowblood (Fujita, 1973). Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature, 42(1), article 6.
[Lady Snowblood]
Brown, Penny. Manga Shakespeare and Cervantes: Trash or reclamation? Comparative Critical Studies, 14(2-3), 155-167.
Carew, Anthony. The fullness of time: The anime films of Mamoru Hosoda. Metro, 193, 136-143.
Chan, Leo Tak-hung. Imitation as translation: From Western theories of parody to Japanese postmodern pastiches. Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 25(2), 214-216.
[Saiyuki]
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Chan, Yee Han, & Wong, Ngan Ling. Learning Japanese through anime. Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 8(3), 485-495.
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Chan, Yee Han, & Wong, Ngan Ling. The use of anime in teaching Japanese as a foreign language. The Malaysian Journal of Educational Technology, 5(2), 68-78.
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Chan, Yee Han, Wong, Ngan-Ling, & Ng, Lee-Luan. Japanese language students’ perception of using anime as a teaching tool. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics: A Journal of First and Second Language Teaching and Learning, 7(1), 93-104.
Cheung, Kelly, & O’Sullivan, Kerry-Ann. ‘Big fans’, ‘experts’, and those ‘in need of a challenge’: Teacher attitudes to ‘manga and anime kids’ in the Secondary English classroom. English in Australia, 52(2), 28-38.
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Close, Samantha. Moon prism power!: Censorship as adaptation in the case of Sailor Moon. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 14(1), 264-281.
Cornevin, Vanessa, & Forceville, Charles. From metaphor to allegory: The Japanese manga Afuganisu-tan. Metaphor and the Social World, 7(2), 235-251.
Daliot-Bul, Michal. What will you do if the wind rises: Dialectical cinema by Miyazaki Hayao. Asian Studies Review, 41(4), 562-576.
[The Wind Rises]
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Danesin, Maxime. Beyond time & culture: The revitalisation of Old Norse literature and history in Yukimura Makoto’s Vinland Saga. Mutual Images, 2, 185-217.
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Dasgupta, Arnab. “We are the world itself”: The construction of “good” citizenship and deviations from it in Ergo Proxy. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 13(2), 73-91.
Davis, Northrop. Peak TV and anime: Why it matters. International Journal of Comic Art, 19(2), 311-340.
Delgado-Algarra, Emilio-Jose. Comics as an educational resource in the teaching of social science: Socio-historical commitment and values in Tezuka’s manga. Cultura y Educación: Culture and Education, 29(4), 848-862.
Dong, Lan. Autobiography, documentary, and history in comics: The Four Immigrants Manga and Citizen 13360. The Journal of Comics and Culture, 2, 3-28.
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Drummond-Matthews, Angela, & Scally, Deborah. Hiroshima to 3.11: Manga and anime in the aftermath of tragedy. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 304-313.
Fabbretti, Matteo. Manga scanlation for an international readership: The role of English as a lingua franca. The Translator, 23(4), 456-473.
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Fahmi, Marwa Essam Eldin. Fantasy chronotope in two animated children’s films: Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001). Studies in Literature and Language, 14(1), 28-38.
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Filimon, Luiza-Maria. Dolls, offsprings, and automata: Analyzing the posthuman experience in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media, 17(1), 45-66.
Fraser, Lucy, & Monden, Masafumi. The maiden switch: New possibilities for understanding Japanese shojo manga (girls’ comics). Asian Studies Review, 41(4), 544-561.
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Friedman, Erica. On defining yuri. Transformative Works and Cultures, 24.
Germer, Andrea, & Yoshioka, Shiro. Romantic love and the ‘housewife trap’: A gendered reading of The Cat Returns. Japanese Studies, 37(2), 247-263.
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Germer, Andrea, Martins, Rafael Vinicius, & Zhang, Tianqi. A ‘Japanese’ cinema of reassurance: Queering, passing – and reifying normativity in Hosoda Mamoru’s Wolf Children. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 17(2).
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Griffis, Emily. Predator vs. prey: The human monstrosity in Attack on Titan. Digital Literature Review, 4, 153-165.
Hammonds, Kyle A., & Hammonds, Garret. Seeing with shinigami eyes: Death Note as a case study in narrative, naming and control. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 95-107.
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Hartman, Emma. Tradition vs. innovation and the creatures in Spirited Away. Digital Literature Review, 4, 104-116.
Hartzheim, Brian Hikari. Toriko’s database world. International Journal of Comic Art, 19(1), 499-525.
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Hernandez Perez, Manuel. “Thinking of Spain in a flat way”: Visiting Spain and Spanish cultural heritage through contemporary Japanese anime. Mutual Images, 3, 43-69.
[Crayon Shin-chan, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, Sound of the Sky]
Hills, Matt. Transnational cult and/as neoliberalism: The liminal economies of anime fansubbers. Transnational Cinemas, 8(1), 80-94.
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Hirota, Daichi. Presence of Baudelaire in today’s Japanese manga: The Flowers of Evil (Aku no Hana, 2009-2014) by Shizo Oshimi. AmeriQuests: Narrative, Law and Society, 13(1), 34-43.
Ishigami, Akiko, et al. Delivering knowledge of stroke to parents through their children using a manga for stroke education in elementary school. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 26(2), 431-437.
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Ito, Yu. Manga research in Japan. National Diet Library Newsletter, 213.
(translated by Tomoaki Hyuga and Shihoko Yokota)
Johnson, Robyn. In the past the Devil has won: Analysis of Seishi Kishimoto’s Satan and Savior in O-Parts Hunter. International Journal of Comic Art, 19(2), 124-147.
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Josephy-Hernandez, Daniel E. The translation of graphemes in anime in its original and subtitled versions. TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies, 9(1), 78-104.
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Jude, Gretchen. On manga, mimetics, and the feeling of (reading a) language: Toward a situated translational practice. Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, 1(1), 35-51.
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Kakihara, Satoko. ‘I like you’: Desire for the alien other in FLCL. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 17(2).
Karpati, Andrea, et al., Collaboration in visual culture learning communities: Towards a synergy of individual and collective creative practice. The International Journal of Art & Design Education, 36(2), 164-175.
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Laws, Leandra. The genre of boys’ love and the societal acceptance of male homosexuality in Japan. Colorado Journal of Asian Studies, 6(1), 1-14.
Lee, Laura. Wonderland recursion: Versailles as Japan’s imaginary playground. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 21(1), 100-108.
[Rose of Versailles]
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Lee, Sung-Ae, Tan, Fengxia, & Stephens, John. Film adaptation, global film techniques, and cross-cultural viewing. International Research in Children’s Literature, 10(1), 1-19.
[Umimachi Diary]
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Lefevre, Pascal. What if the Japanese could alter WW2? – A case study of Kawaguchi’s manga series Zipang. Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art, 3(1), 3-27.
Leung, May May, Green, Melanie C., Tate, Deborah F., Cai, Jianwen, Wyka, Katarzyna, & Ammerman, Alice C. Fight for your right to fruit: Psychosocial outcomes of a manga comic promoting fruit consumption in middle-school youth. Health Communication, 32(5), 533-540.
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Loriguillo-Lopez, Antonio. Crowdfunding Japanese commercial animation: Collective financing experiences in anime. International Journal on Media Management, 19(2), 182-195.
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Li, Carl K. How does the radiation make you feel? The emotional criticism of nuclear power in the science fiction manga Coppelion. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 8(1), 33-45.
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Mahmutovic, Adnan, & Nunes, Denise. Maxime miranda in minimis: Swarm consciousness in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 9(1).
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Matsui, Yusuke, et al. Sketch-based manga retrieval using Manga109 dataset. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76(20), 21811-21838.
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McLelland, Mark. Governmentality and fan resistance in the Japan pop culture sphere. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 14(1), 218-234.
[Puni Puni Poemy]
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Mich, Christopher H. Loving the alien, hating the hybrid – a cultural study of Robotech. MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, 2(1), 43-53.
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Miller, Lucy. Access and the construction of fan identity: Industry images of anime fandom. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 14(1), 49-66.
Moscato, Derek. Fukushima fallout in Japanese manga: The Oishinbo controversy through the lens of Habermas’ discourse ethics. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 41(4), 382-402.
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Nguyen, Kathy. Body upload 2.0: Downloadable cosmetic [re]birth. Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media, 17(1), 25-44.
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Nguyen, Kathy. Wired:: Ghosts in the s[hell]. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 17(1).
[Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain]
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Oda, Tomoko. Alternative narratives of Japan in contemporary media: Kobayashi Yoshinori’s Sensoron. Mutual Images, 3, 26-42.
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Oguma, Eiji. An industry awaiting reform: The social origins and economics of manga and animation in postwar Japan. The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 15(9), article 1.
Owj, Sara. Portrayal of massacre: A comparative study between the works of Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and Fumiyo Kono. International Journal of Comic Art, 479-498.
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Palumbo, Favio, & Calabro, Domenica Gisella. Japanese pop culture, identification, and socialization: The case of an Italian web-community. Mutual Images, 2, 137-184.
Payne, Rachel, Howard, Jocelyn, & Ogino, Masayoshi. An exploration of the role of anime and manga as stimuli for secondary students studying Japanese. The New Zealand Language Teacher, 43, 24-40.
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Pelc, Yoshimi M. Achieving the copyright equilibrium: How fair use law can protect Japanese parody and dojinshi. Southwestern Journal of International Law, 23(2), 397-421.
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Peres, Catia. Out of gravity: Physics in animation and in the films of Hayao Miyazaki. Animation Studies, 12.
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Perez, Manuel Hernandez, Carstorphine, Kevin, & Stephens, Darren. Cartoons vs. manga movies: A brief history of anime in the UK. Mutual Images, 2, 5-43.
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Pop, Doru. The ghost in the cinema machine. Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media, 17(2), 9-24
[Ghost in the Shell]
Pratama, Wahyudi, Suprayitno, & Adi, Danendro. Development of Japanese comic as an illustration and cultural ideology propaganda. Advance Science Letters, 23(1), 217-219.
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Ray, Adam, Plante, Courtney N., Reysen, Stephen, Roberts, Sharon E., & Gerbasi, Kathleen C. Psychological needs predict fanship and fandom in anime fans. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 56-68.
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Reysen, Stephen, Plante, Courtney N., Roberts, Sharon E., & Gerbasi, Kathleen C. Accuracy of perceived prejudice toward one’s fan group. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 122-129.
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Reysen, Stephen, Plante, Courtney N., Roberts, Sharon E., & Gerbasi, Kathleen C. Anime fans to the rescue: Evidence of Daniel Wann’s team identification-social psychological health model. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 237-247.
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Reysen, Stephen, Plante, Courtney N., Roberts, Sharon E., & Gerbasi, Kathleen C. Anime genre preferences and paranormal beliefs. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 25-32.
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Reysen, Stephen, Plante, Courtney N., Roberts, Sharon E., & Gerbasi, Kathleen C. Optimal distinctiveness needs as predictors of identification in the anime fandom. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 25-32.
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Reysen, Stephen, Katzarska-Miller, Iva, Plante, Courtney N., Roberts, Sharon E., & Gerbasi, Kathleen C. Examination of anime content and associations between anime consumption, genre preferences, and ambivalent sexism. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 285-303.
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Reysen, Stephen, et al. Routes to fandom discovery and expression of fan identity in furry, anime, and fantasy sports fans. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 373-384.
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Ristola, Jacqueline. Realist film theory and Flowers of Evil: Exploring the philosophical possibilities of rotoscoped animation. Animation Studies, 12.
[Winner of the Society for Animation Studies 2017 Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media]
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Rivera Rusca, Renato. The discourse of the sci-fi fan civil war of 1980 as seen in anime magazines. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 314-326.
Robertson, Wesley C. He’s more katakana than kanji: Indexing identity and self-presentation through script selection in Japanese manga (comics). Journal of Sociolinguistics, 21(4), 497-520.
Russell, John G. Replicating the white self and other: Skin color, racelessness, gynoids, and the construction of whiteness in Japan. Japanese Studies, 37(1), 23-48.
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Santiago Iglesias, Jose Andres. Dragon Ball popularity in Spain compared to current delocalized models of consumption: How Dragon Ball developed from a regionally-based complex system into a nationwide social phenomenon. Mutual Images, 2, 110-136.
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Sirin Okyauz, Ayse. Examining the translation and scanlation of the manga Naruto into Turkish from a translator’s perspective. International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, 5(3), 161-173.
Steinberg, Marc. Media mix mobilization: Social media and Yo-Kai Watch. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 12(3), 244-258.
Suan, Stevie. Anime’s performativity: Diversity through conventionality in a global media-form. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 12(1), 62-79.
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Suvilay, Buonthavy. The anime VHS home video market in France. Mutual Images, 2, 82-109.
Swale, Alistair. Memory and forgetting: Examining the treatment of traumatic historical memory in Grave of the Fireflies and The Wind Rises. Japan Forum, 29(4), 518-536.
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Tarbox, Jonathan. The rise of anime and manga fan conventions in the Saudi Arabian peninsula. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 78-83.
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Tembo, Kwasu D. Death, innocence, and the cyborg: Theorizing the gynoid in double-bind in Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence. American, British and Canadian Studies, 29(1), 103-125.
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Teves-Pinili, Rose Marie. Anime and its influence on the shaping of humanistic values among Filipino college students. Prism: The Official Research Publication of Negros Oriental State University, 22(1).
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Thompson, Kimberly D. The cross-cultural power of yuri: Riyoko Ikeda’s queer rhetorics of place-making in The Rose of Versailles. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 19(2), 301-320.
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Thornton-Gibson, Katherine. Ukiyo-e, World War II, and Walt Disney: The influences on Tezuka Osamu’s development of the modern world of anime and manga. The Phoenix Papers: A Journal of Fandom and Neomedia Studies, 3(1), 344-356.
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Ursini, Francesco-Alessio. David Bowie’s influence on Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 7.
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Ursini, Francesco-Alessio. Themes, focalization and the flow of information: The case of Shingeki no Kyojin. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 7.
[Attack on Titan]
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Vernon, Alice. Colossal bodies: Re-imagining the human anatomy in Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 8(5), 480-493.
Wang, Shujen. The cloud, online piracy, and global copyright governance. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 20(3), 270-286.
Ward, Sarah. Be careful what you wish for: Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name. Metro, 193, 44-49.
Watanabe, Takehiro. Debts of redemption: Usury manga and the morality of money in contemporary Japan. Positions: Asia Critique, 25(3), 565-593.
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Watson, Matthew. Translation studies: Shifts in domestication and foreignisation in translating Japanese manga and anime (Part One). Bulletin of Kagoshima Junshin Junior College, 47, 129-137.
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Zsila, Agnes, & Demetrocis, Zsolt. Redrawing the boundaries of gender and sexuality: A psychological recontextualization of the boys’ love phenomenon. Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, 9, 34-49.