Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2018

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

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  Greenberg, Raz. Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the early work of Japan’s greatest animator. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

• Lamarre, Thomas. The anime ecology: A genealogy of television, animation, and game media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Napier, Susan. Miyazakiworld: A life in art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

• Novielli, Maria Roberta. Floating worlds: A short history of Japanese animation. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Essay Collections

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  Denison, Rayna (ed.). Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

• Freedman, Alisa, & Slade, Toby (eds.). Introducing Japanese popular culture. Abindgon, UK: Routledge.

• Pearson, Ashley, Giddens, Thomas, & Tranter, Kieran (eds.). Law and Justice in Japanese popular culture: From crime fighting robots to duelling Pocket Monsters. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Book Chapters

• Beaty, Bart. Jiro Taniguji: France’s mangaka.
  In Frederick Luis Aldama (ed)., Comics studies here and now (pp. 144-160). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Chan, Leo Tak-Hung. Transgenderism in Japanese manga as radical translation: The Journey to the West goes to Japan.
  In Brian James Baer & Klaus Kaindl (eds.), Queering translation, translating the queer: Theory, practice, activism (pp. 96-111). New York: Routledge.

• Cox, Ryan J. Kusanagi’s body: Dualism and the performance of identity in Ghost in the Shell and Stand Alone Complex.
  In Graham Murphy & Lars Schmeink (eds.), Cyberpunk and visual culture (pp. 127-138). New York: Routledge.

• Dean, Zachary Michael Lewis. Only a chilling elegy: An examination of white bodies, colonialism, fascism, genocide, and racism in Dragon Ball.
  In Frederick Luis Aldama (ed)., Comics studies here and now (pp. 267-280). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Denison, Rayna. Anime’s distribution worlds: Formal and informal distribution in the analogue and digital eras.
  In Fabienne Darling-Wolf (ed.), Routledge handbook of Japanese media (pp. 403-418). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Dmitruk, Natalia. Are you really a child? Androids and cyborgs in Japanese comics and animations.
  In Steven John Thompson (ed.). Androids, cyborgs and robots in contemporary culture and society (pp. 65-95). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

• Ellis, Bill. Anime and manga: (“You love your father, don’t you”?”: the influence of Tale Type 510B on Japanese manga/anime).
  In Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, & Lauren Bosc (eds.), The Routledge companion to media and fairy-tale cultures (pp. 391-397). New York: Routledge.

• Grennan, Simon. The influence of manga on the graphic novel.
  In Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, & Stephen E. Tabachnik (Eds.), The Cambridge history of the graphic novel (pp. 320-336). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

• Groo, Gerry. Cool Japan versus the China threat: Does Japan’s popular culture success mean more soft power?
  In Kaoko Hashimoto (ed.), Japanese language and soft power in Asia (pp. 15-42). Singapore: Springer Nature.

• Hadl, Gabriele. Nature, media and the future: Unnatural disaster, animist anime, and eco-media activism in Japan.
  In Fabienne Darling-Wolf (ed.), Routledge handbook of Japanese media (pp. 336-362). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  [Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind; My Neighbor Totoro; Princess Mononoke]

• Hashimoto, Kayoko. Cool Japan and the Japanese language: Why does Japan need “Japan fans”? In Kayoko Hashimoto (ed.), Japanese language and soft power in Asia (pp. 43-62). Singapore: Springer Nature.

• Kiernan, Patrick. Multimodality identity in manga: Yowamushi Pedal and the semiotics of Japanese comics.
  In Language, identity and cycling in the new media age: Exploring interpersonal semiotics in multimodal media and online texts (pp. 91-210). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Knighton, Mary A. Invasive species: Manga’s insect-human worlds.
  In David Hernan (ed.), Animal comics: multispecies storyworlds in graphic narratives (pp. 139-158). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
  [Terra Formars]

• Kuribayashi, Tomoko. The problematic maternal in Moto Hagio’s graphic fiction: An analysis of “Iguana Girl”.
  In Devaleena Das & Colette Morrow (eds.). Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East (pp. 175-186). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

• Larsen, Miranda Ruth. Fandom and otaku.
  In Paul Booth (ed.), A companion to media fandom and fan studies (pp. 277-288). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

• Madill, Anna. Erotic manga: Boys’ Love, shonen-ai, yaoi, and (MxM) shotacon.
  In Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood, & Brian McNair (eds.), The Routledge companion to media, sex and sexuality (pp. 130-140). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Martinez, Dolores P. Anime goddesses and their Hollywood transformations.
  In Lorenzo J. Torres-Hortelano (ed.), Dialectics of the goddess in Japanese audiovisual culture (pp. 51-72). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

• Miller, Mara. On Kawabata, Kishida, and Barefoot Gen: Agency, identity, and aesthetic experience in post-atomic Japanese narrative.
  In A. Minh Nguyen (ed.), New essays in Japanese aesthetics (pp. 269-284). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

• Montero, Laura. The humanization of the goddess: Takahata Isao’s Princess Kaguya.
  In Lorenzo J. Torres-Hortelano (Ed.), Dialectics of the goddess in Japanese audiovisual culture (pp. 91-110). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

• Murai, Mayako. Happily ever after for the old in Japanese fairy tales.
  In V. Joosen (ed.). Connecting childhood and old age in popular media (pp. 43-60). Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

• Napier, Susan. Anorexic in Miyazaki’s Land of Cockaigne: Excess and abnegation in Spirited Away.
  In Nancy K. Stalker (ed.), Devouring Japan: Global perspectives on Japanese culinary identity (pp. 273-286). New York: Oxford University Press.

• Richey, Jeffrey L. “Honor the power within”: Daoist wizards, popular culture, and contemporary Japan’s spiritual crisis.
  In Assaf Gamzou & Ken Koltun-Fromm (eds.), Comics and sacred texts: Reimagining religion and graphic narratives (pp. 172-192). Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

• Scilabra, Carla. Back to the future: Reviving classical figures in Japanese comics.
  In Almut-Barbara Renger & Xin Fan (eds.). Receptions of Greek and Roman antiquity in East Asia (pp. 287-309. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

• Shamoon, Deborah. Fire! Mizuno Hideko and the development of 1960’s shojo manga.
  In Fabienne Darling-Wolf (ed.), Routledge handbook of Japanese media (pp. 69-85). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Skweres, Artur. Pirate as homo ludens: Analyzing the humorous outlaw in play in One Piece.
  In Antonio Sanna (ed.). Pirates in history and popular culture (pp. 236-246). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

• Steele, Dale, Zhang, Rong, & Song, Shiyu. The impact of manga on Japanese students’ reading habits.
  In Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education and E-Learning (pp. 206-211). New York: Association for Computer Machinery.

• Steinberg, Marc, & dit Alban, Edmond Ernest. Otaku pedestrians.
  In Paul Booth (ed.), A companion to media fandom and fan studies (pp. 289-309). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

• Tan, Ghim Yeo. A case study of the anime, comics and games (ACG) industry in Hong Kong.
  In Tai Wei Lim & Tuan Yen Kong (eds.). Studying Hong Kong: 20 years of political, economic and social developments (pp. 273-284). Singapore: World Scientific.

• Tanaka, Hiromi, & Ishida, Saori. Doing manga as leisure and its meaning and purpose: The case of Japanese female manga fans called fujoshi.
  In Anju Beniwal, Rashmi Jain, & Karl Spracklen (eds.). Global leisure and the struggle for a better world (pp. 201-218). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Teodorescu, Alice. Exploring the spirits in “shojo” culture: Anime and the bishonen trope.
  In Rodica Gabriela Chira, Emilia Ivancu, Gabriela Chiciudean, & Natalia Muntedean (eds.), Myth, music and ritual: Approaches to comparative literature (pp. 90-100). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

• Turner, Simon David. “Have you realized this forum has a lot to do with Japan?”: Transnational yaoi manga online.
  In Nobuko Kawashima & Hye-Kyung Lee (eds.), Asian cultural flows: Cultural policies, creative industries, and media consumers (pp. 183-196). Singapore: Springer Nature.

• Zeng, Chengyan. Living in a virtual reality: Anime and manga fandom.
  In Cheng Lu Wang (ed.), Exploring the rise of fandom in contemporary consumer culture (pp. 244-253). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Journal Special/Theme Issues
Total published: 4 issues, 36 articles

Arts
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Special Issue – Japanese Media Cultures in Japan and Abroad: Transnational Consumption of Manga, Anime, and Video Games

• Pellitteri, Marco. Kawaii aesthetics from Japan to Europe: Theory of the Japanese “cute” and transcultural adoption of its styles in Italian and French comics production and commodified culture goods (article 24).

• Kacsuk, Zoltan. Re-Examining the “what is manga” problematic: The tension and interrelationship between the “style” versus “made in Japan” positions (article 26).

• Suan, Stevia. Consuming production: Anime’s layers of transnationality and dispersal of agency as seen in Shirobako and sakuga-fan practices (article 27).

• Torrents, Alba. Technological specificity, transduction, and identity in media mix (article 29).

• Hernandez Hernandez, Alvaro David. The anime industry, networks of participation, and environments for the management of content in Japan (article 42).

• Yoshioka, Shiro. The essence of 2.5-dimensional musicals? Sakura Wars and theater adaptations of anime (article 52).

• Berndt, Jaqueline. Anime in academia: Representative object, media form, and Japanese studies (article 56).

• Santiago Iglesias, Jose Andres. The anime connection. Early Euro-Japanese co-productions and the animesque: Form, rhythm, design (article 59).

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture

Volume 4, Issue 2

• Armour, William S. & Iida, Sumiko. Editorial: Contextualizing Japanese popular culture in and out of the Japanese-language classroom (pp. 147-152).

• Iida, Sumiko & Takeyama, Yuki. A brief history of Japanese popular culture in Japanese language education: Using ‘manga’ in the classroom (pp. 153-170).

• Imura, Taeko. A portrait of Japanese popular culture fans who study Japanese at an Australian university: Motivations and activities beyond the classroom (pp. 171-188).

• Northwood, Barbara M. The influence of Japanese popular culture on learning Japanese (pp. 189-204).

• Armour, William S. & Iida, Sumiko. Using the revised Bloom’s taxonomy to reflect on the teaching of the Japanese language through ‘manga’ and anime (pp. 205-220).

Volume 4, Issue 1

• Rendell, James, & Denison, Rayna. Introducing Studio Ghibli (pp. 5-14).

• Yoshioka, Shiro. Toshio’s movie castle: A historical overview of Studio Ghibli’s collaboration and promotional strategies (pp. 15-30).

• Denison, Rayna. Before Ghibli was Ghibli: Analysing the historical discourses surrounding Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky (1986) (pp. 31-46).

• Carter, Laz. Marketing anime to a global audience: A paratextual analysis of promotional materials from Spirited Away (pp. 47-60).

• Pizzuto, Daniela. Can faithfulness to the original text betray the target public? The adaptations of Mononokehime (Princess Mononoke) in Italy (pp. 61-76).

• Morimoto, Lori. The ‘Totoro Meme’ and the politics of transfandom pleasure (pp. 77-92).

• Rendell, James. Bridge builders, world makers: Transcultural Studio Ghibli fan crafting (pp. 93-110).

Mechademia: Second Arc
Volume 11, Number 1 (Fall 2018) – Childhood

Orientaliska Studier
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Issue 156
Special Issue – Manga, Comics and Japan: Area Studies as Media Studies

• Berndt, Jaqueline. Anime, comics and Japan – an introduction (pp. 6-14).

• Darling-Wof, Fabienne. Japan’s global resonances: From ukiyo-e to la nouvelle manga (pp. 15-27).

• Cheng Chua, Karl Ian U. Japanese popular culture and its redefinition from the peripheries (pp. 28-37).

• Dosen, Ana. Probing the manga ToPoEt(h)ics in Tezuka’s Message to Adolf (pp. 38-45).

• Ogi, Fusami. Manga beyond Japan: How the term manga has become globalized (pp. 46-62).

• Lindberg, Ylva. Moving manga: Integration and bypassing as strategies in the cases of France and Sweden (pp. 63-73).

• Medin, Lisa. Twisting the mundane to the fantastical in manga-inspired comics: Experiences of a Swedish artist (pp. 74-85).

• Saha, Ananya. Manga as mukokuseki (stateless)? Hybridism in original non-Japanese manga (pp. 86-97).

• Santiago Iglesias, Jose Andres. Berliac’s gaijin gekiga and the mangaesque: Transnational perspectives and cultural appropriation (pp. 98-114).

• munoz j, gaston j. Gender, politics and manga in current Chilean art. (pp. 115-129).

• Wilde, Lukas R.A. Character street signs (hyoshiki): “Mangaesque” aesthetics as intermedial reference and virtual mediation (pp. 130-150).

• Israelson, Per. The vortex of the weird: Systemic feedback and environmental individuation in the media ecology of Junji Ito’s horror comics (pp. 151-175).

• Orbaugh, Sharalyn. Compulsorily queer: Coercion as a political tool in queer manga (pp. 176-189).
  [Princess Princess]

• Galbraith, Patrick W. Encountering Uchiyama Aki: On the need for situated knowledge and learning in a global world (pp. 191-201).

• Nagaike, Kazumi. BL manga studies: Essentializing and queering “Japanese studies” (pp. 202-213).

• Samutina, Natalia. The Made in Abyss controversy: Transnational participatory cultures as cultural interpreters of Japanese texts (pp. 214-229).

Journal Articles
Total published: 79

• Abdolmaleki, Saleh Delforouz, Tavakoli, Mansoor, & Ketabi, Saeed. Agency in non-professional manga translation in Iran. Translation & Interpreting, 10(1), 92-110.

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  Akbas, Ibrahim. A “cool” approach to foreign policy: Linking anime to international relations. Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs, 23(1), 95-120.

• Al-Ghazzi, Omar. Grendizer leaves for Sweden: Japanese anime nostalgia on Syrian social media. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 11(1), 52-71.

• Bauer, Thomas. When an energy drink exalts a table tennis hero: Brand placement and subvertising in the manga Ping-Pong Dash!! by Honda Shingo. Society and Leisure, 41(2), 233-249.

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  Bazylewicz, Tomasz. Transfer of Japanese culture patterns on the example of a comic book: How manga conquered the world and became an integral part of the Polish publishing market? Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, 36(1), 105-123.

• Boyd, Nolan. The altered shall inherit the Earth: Biopower and the disabled body in Tehxnolyze. Science Fiction Studies, 45(1), 91-110.

• Brickler, Alexander Dumas J. IV. Black mecha is built for this: Black masculinity in Firedance and Afro Samurai. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 39, 70-88.

• Brickler, Alexander Dumas J. IV. Trans-Pacific crossroads: Reading the Blues as Black American folkway in Hiramoto Akira’s manga, Me and the Devil Blues. Fire: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies, 4(2), 10-54.

• Bridges, Will. The past tense and the Future Perfect: The postmodern play of Watanabe Shin’ichiro and the possibility of the coming community. The Journal of Popular Culture, 51(3), 776-801.

• Brienza, Casey. Domesticating manga? Japanese comics and transnational publishing. International Journal of Comic Art, 20(1), 81-97.

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  Brown, Janice. Becoming imperceptible: but not exactly: HP Lovecraft, the Weird Body, and the posthuman in Japanese popular culture. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 18(1).
  [Uzumaki]

• Chan, Ko-On. Representation of music and dance in manga. Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography, 43(1-2), 233-245.

• Chaudhuri, Ritu Sen. Kiki and the ‘girl’: A moment of reading between Deleuze and feminism. Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 12(4), 486-504.
  [Kiki’s Delivery Service]

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  Cho, Hyerim, Disher, Thomas, Lee, Wan-Chen, Keating, Stephen A., & Lee, Jin Han. Facet analysis of anime genres: The challenges of defining genre information for popular culture objects. Knowledge Organization, 45(6), 484-499.

• Cho, Hyerim, Schmalz, Marc L., Keating, Stephen A., & Lee, Jin Ha. Analyzing anime users’ online forum queries for recommendation using content analysis. Journal of Documentation, 74(5), 918-935.

• Choo, Kukhee. Cool governance: Japan’s ubiquitous society, surveillance, and creative industries. Culture, Theory and Critique, 59(2), 94-118.
  [Den-noh Coil]

• Clark, Daniel D. Manga’s Christian other in Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys and Suu Minazuki’s Judas. International Journal of Comic Art, 20(1), 598-614.

• Clarke, M.J. Fluidity of figure and space in Osamu Tezuka’s Ode to Kirihito. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 9(1), 23-48.

• Clopton, Kay K. Ha-fuun and other sounds of enjoyment: How giongo and gitaigo shift from entertainment to lived experience in Insufficient Direction. International Journal of Comic Art, 20(1), 563-574.

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  Close, Natalie. Tradition vs. pop culture: Attracting toursts with the Cool Japan campaign. Mutual Images, 5, 31-48.

• Dahlberg-Dodd, Hannah E. Voices of the hero: Dominant masculine ideologies through the speech of Japanese shonen protagonists. Gender and Language, 12(3), 346-371.

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  Dall’Olio, Daria, & Ranalli, Piero. Constellazione manga: Explaining astronomy using Japanese comics and animation. CAPjournal: Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 24, 7-16.

• Davis, Northrop. Legendary Hollywood designer Syd Mead’s important contributions to landmark anime. International Journal of Comic Art, 20(2), 536-541.

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  Denison, Rayna. Anime’s cultural nationalism: The politics of representing Japan in Summer Wars (Hosoda Mamoru, 2009). Mutual Images, 5, 123-142.

• Feil, Franca. Kawaii Snow White and an umbrella called “Dornroschen”: Manga adaptations of Grimms’ Fairy Tales. International Journal of Comic Art, 20(1), 98-117.

• Ferriol, Ezequiel. The semiotics and politics of the female body: A comprehensive analysis of Elfen Lied and its opening song. Gilgameš, 2, 160-168.

• Fink, Moritz. Of Maus and Gen: Author avatars in nonfiction comics. International Journal of Comic Art, 20(1), 267-296.
  [Barefoot Gen]

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  Flis, Daniel. Straddling the line: How female authors are pushing the boundaries of of gender representation in Japanese shonen manga. New Voices in Japanese Studies, 10, 76-97.
  [Noragami; Akame ga KILL!]

• Fornasari, Eleonora. Adapting children’s literature for animated TV series: The case of Heidi. Journal of Screenwriting, 9(3), 365-378.
  [Heidi: Girl of the Alps]

• Fraser, Lucy. Dogs, gods, and monsters: The animal-human connection in Bakin’s Hakkenden, folktales and legends, and two contemporary retellings. Japanese Studies, 38(1), 103-123.
  [Fuse: Memoirs of a Huntress]

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  Furukawa, Susan Westhafer. A multimedia approach to teaching Japanese popular culture. ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 25(2), 61-81.

• Gava, Priscila. Translating sound into image: A comparison between American comic and Japanese manga onomatopoeia. The International Journal of the Image, 9(3), 1-21.

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  Gilroy, Andrea. Cyberpunk horrors: Neoliberal capitalism and global sprawl in Otomo’s manga. Deletion: The Open Access Online Forum in Science Fiction Studies, 14.
  [Domu]

• Gottesman, Zachary Samuel. The rotoscopic uncanny: Aku no Hana and the aesthetic of Japanese postmodernity. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 13(3), 192-206.
  [Flowers of Evil]

• Grady, William. Reflections on yaoi space and yaoi time: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow – an introduction. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 9(5), 414-417.

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  Greene, Barbara. High School of the Dead and the profitable use of Japanese nationalistic imagery. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 18(3).

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  Greene, Barbara. Moyashimon and agrarian nationalism: The transition from policy to pop culture. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 18(2).

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  Hermenau, Sierra. Manga as a cultural national brand. Japan Spotlight, 221, 62-65.

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  Hinton, Perry. Negotiating otaku: A social group, its social representations and the changing cultural context. Papers on Social Representations, 27(2), 2.1-2.19.

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  Hudson, Sean. Spaces of sympathy: The role of Asia in contemporary Japanese popular cinema. Mutual Images Journal, 4, 62-75.
  [Grave of the Fireflies; The Wind Rises]

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  de la Iglesia, Martin. Has Akira always been a cyberpunk comic? Arts, 7(3), article 32.

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  Jaworowics-Zimny, Aleksandra. Kando conservatism: “Moving” war narratives in Japanese online fan videos. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 16(15), article 5.

• Johansson, Anna. ISIS-chan – the meanings of the Manga girl in image warfare against the Islamic State. Critical Studies in Terrorism, 11(1), 1-25.

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  Johnson, Ryan. In one blow: The futility of Nietzsche in One-Punch Man. The Phoenix Papers, 4(1), 143-157.

• Jones, Anna Maria. Transnational Neo-Victorian Studies: Notes on the possibilities and limitations of a discipline. Literature Compass, 15(7).
  [Black Butler]

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  Junjie, Shan, Nishihara, Yoko, & Yamanishi, Ryosuke. A system for Japanese listening training support with watching Japanese anime scenes. Procedia Computer Science, 126, 947-956.

• Kusamaki, Mieko, et al. Presenting safety topics using a graphic novel, manga, to effectively teach chemical safety to students in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. Journal of Chemical Education, 95(4), 584-592.

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  Lee, Kelvin K. H. “Watashi-tachi wa ningen-da”! A corpus-assisted analysis of a non-human character in the anime ‘From the New World’. New Voices in Japanese Studies, 10, 52-75.

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  Leshner, Colin,  et al. “My group is discriminated against, but I’m not”: Denial of personal discrimination in furry, brony, anime, and general interest fan groups. The Phoenix Papers, 4(1), 130-142.

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  Lewis, Diane Wei. Shiage and women’s flexible labor in the Japanese animation industry. Feminist Media Histories, 4(1), 115-141.

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  Longo, Angela. Otaku, Japanoido, Shingurui: Affective relation with the image and fictional universes of anime. Culturas Midiaticas, 11(1), 164-178.
  [article in Portuguese, abstract in English]

• Lorenzo, Ronald. My Hero Academia and Durkheim: A case study of blood and hair as “sacred” objects in a Japanese anime television series. The Phoenix Papers, 4(1), 93-101.

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  Magera, Yulia. The history of the first Russian language publications of Japanese comics. Japanese Studies in Russia, 2018/4, 6-23.
  [article in Russian, abstract in English]

• Maslovskiy, Mikhail, Maiboroda, Alina, & Garifzianova, Albina. Multiple cultural encounters of urban youth in Russia’s Muslim regions. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 39(5), 557-569.

• McInerney, Tara. Doujinshi and Comiket: A day of ‘hare’. Studies in Comics, 9(2), 209-230.

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  Mumcu, Sema, & Yilmaz, Serap. Anime landscapes as a tool for analyzing the human-environmental relationship: Hayao Miyazaki’s films. Arts, 7(2), article 16.

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  Niehaus, Andreas. Narrating history in the manga ‘Jūdō no rekishi – Kanō Jigorō no shōgai’ (1987)’. Martial Arts Studies, , 6, 52-61.

• Ogi, Fusami. Beyond borders: Shojo manga and gender. U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, 54, 75-97.

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  Ohsawa, Yuki. A contemporary version of globalization: New ways of circulating and consuming Japanese anime and manga in East Asia. Josei International University Bulletin, 26(6), 19-42

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  Peer, Ayelet. Thermae Romae manga: Plunging into the gulf between Ancient Rome and modern Japan. New Voices in Classical Reception Studies, 12, 57-67.

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  Pellitteri, Marco. Japan’s soft power and “grand fictions” in global venues: Japanese pop culture franchises and fictionality-based tactics. Kritika Kultura, 32, 453-481.

• Poon, Carol Man Wai. Reading Japanese philosophy through Parasyte. Journal of Japanese Philosophy, 5, 57-78.

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  Prough, Jennifer. Reading images, visualizing texts: Teaching visual analysis through manga. ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 25(2), 100-116.

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  Ray, Adam, et al. “You had to be there”: Convention attendance and well-being in anime fans. The Phoenix Papers, 3(2), 20-30.

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  Reysen, Stephen, Plante, Courtney N., Roberts, Sharon E., & Gerbasi, Kathleen C. A brief report on differences in Big Five personality dimensions between anime fan cosplayers and non-cosplayers. The Phoenix Papers, 3(2),46-53.

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  Reysen, Stephen, et al. A brief report on the prevalence of self-reported mood disorders, anxiety disorders, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder in anime, brony, and furry fandoms. The Phoenix Papers, 3(2), 64-75.

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  Reysen, Stephen, et al. “Coming out” as an anime fan: Cosplayers in the anime fandom, fan disclosure, and well-being. The Phoenix Papers, 4(1), 1-9.

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  Reysen, Stephen, et al. Motivations of cosplayers to participate in the anime fandom. The Phoenix Papers, 4(1), 29-40.

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  Reysen, Stephen, Plante, Courtney N., Roberts, Sharon E., & Gerbasi, Kathleen C. “Who I want to be”: Self-perception and cosplayers’ identification with their favorite characters. The Phoenix Papers, 3(2), 1-7.

• Shalet, Danielle. Through the looking glass: Ghost in the Shell, transhumanism, and transcendence through the virtual. Implicit Religion, 21(4), 413-432.

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  Shimazaki, Takashi, et al. Use of health promotion manga to encourage physical activity and healthy eating in Japanese patients with metabolic syndrome: A case study. Archives of Public Health, 76, article 26.

• Suvilay, Bounthavy. Dragon Ball: Body control and epic excess in manga and anime. Society and Leisure, 41(2), 250-267.

• Suvilay, Bounthavy. Sports manga as a coming-of-age tale in Japan. Agora Debats/Jeunesses, 78, 125-141
  [article in French, abstract in English]

• Tajima, Misako. ‘Weird English from an American’? Folk engagements with language ideologies surrounding a self-help English language learning comic book published in Japan. Asian Englishes, 20(1), 65-80.

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  Tatsumi, Takayuki. Transpacific cyberpunk: Transgeneric interactions between prose, cinema, and manga. Arts, 7(1), article 9.

• Ting, Grace En-Yi. The desire and disgust of sweets: Consuming femininites through shojo manga. U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, 54, 52-74.

• Tsai, Yi-Shan. Close-ups: An emotive language in manga. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 9(5), 473-489.
  
• Tran, Sharon. Kawaii Asian girls save the day! Animating a minor politics of care. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 43(3), 19-41.
  [Puella Magi Madoka Magica]

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