Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2024

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 of Minnesota Press.

• Cohn, Neil. The Patterns of Comics: Visual Languages of Comics from Asia, Europe, and North America. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

• Li, Jinying. Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Miyake, Lynne K. The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

• Oltolini, Maria Chiara. Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation: The Adaptation of Children’s Novels into the World Masterpiece Theater. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

• Welker, James. Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls’ Comics Artists and Fans. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

ESSAY COLLECTIONS

• Berndt, Jaqueline (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

• Dollase, Hiromi Tsuchiya, & Toku, Masami (eds.). Women’s Voices in Manga: Japanese Cultural and Historical Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Pellitteri, Marco (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore.

OTHER BOOKS

• Leader, Michael, & Cunningham, Jake. Ghibliverse: Studio Ghibli Beyond the Films. London: Welbeck.

• Leader, Michael, & Cunningham, Jake. Ghibliotheque: Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli, Revised and Updated. London: Welbeck.

• Stevenson, Satoru. Three, Two, One: Let’s Jam! The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Original Cowboy Bebop. Cantebury, UK. Telos Publishing.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES/ENTRIES

Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies
– Straite, Sophia. Japanese anime heroism (pp. 1223-1226).

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Bair, Jesse. Queering the family in Japanese manga: Acceptance of LGBTQ+ identities in Gengoroh Tagame’s My Brother’s Husband and Okura’s I Think Our Son Is Gay.
  In Bernard Wilson & Sharifah Aishah Osman (eds.). The Asian family in literature and film: Changing perceptions in a New Age-East Asia, Volume I (pp. 287-302). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Barancovaitė-Skindaravičienė Kristina. The animated architecture of intimacy: Fantasy space and gender relations in Japanese pornographic anime.
  In Vahid Vahdat (ed.). Animate(d) architecture: A spatial investigation of the moving image (pp. 131-152). Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press.

• Berndt, Jaqueline. Kusazōshi as comic books? Reading early modern graphic narratives from a manga studies perspective.
  In Laura Moretti & Satō Yukiko (eds.). Graphic narratives from Early Modern Japan: The world of Kusazōshi (pp. 530-559). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

• Bertolini, Elisa. Rebellion v authority and power: Suggestions from manga.
  In Giuseppe Martinico and Gianpaolo Maria Ruotolo (eds.). The law in graphic narratives: Legal Perspectives on comics, manga and anime (pp. 83-96). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH.

• Bhowmik, Davinder. Plastic garbage in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Air Doll.
  In Rachel DiNitto (ed.). Eco-disasters in Japanese cinema (pp. 59-72). New York: Columbia University Press.

• Bouvard, Julien. Turning the page: Reading manga in the Pandemic Age.
  In Mina Qiao (ed.). The Coronavirus pandemic in Japanese literature and popular culture (pp. 112-124). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  [Demon Slayer]

• Bychowski, Gabrielle. The transgender paladin of Charlemagne.
  In Suzanne M. Edwards & Matthew X. Vernon (eds.). Women’s restorative Medievalisms: Forgotten pasts and unimagined futures (pp. 145-162). York, UK: Arc Humanities Press.
  [Fate/Apocrypha]

• Chandi, Jasdeep Kaur. Moon, music, and melancholia: Gothic aesthetics in Kuroshitisuji’s Lacrimosa.
  In Elana Gomel & Simon Bacon (eds.). Lunar Gothic: The Influence of the Moon on the Gothic Imagination (pp. 219-236). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
  [Black Butler]

• Chow, Yean Fun. Factors influencing partial translaiton and non-translation of inscription in the Malay translation of Japanese manga Kimi No Na Wa.
  In Hasuria Che Omar, et al. (eds.). Language, literature and translation in Malaysia and Indonesia (pp. 162-177). Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia Press.

• Etherington, Tara. Manga as trans literature.
  In Douglas A. Vakoch & Sabine Sharp (eds.). The Routledge handbook of trans literature (pp. 429-439). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Fujiki, Hideaki. Diverging imaginations of planetary change: The media franchise of Japan Sinks.
  In Rachel DiNitto (ed.). Eco-disasters in Japanese cinema (pp. 207-220). New York: Columbia University Press.

• Gronowska, Weronika. Images of Russians in the Japanese pop culture: On the example of anime.
  In G. Michailova, et al. (eds.). Slavica Vilnensia I–II (pp. 44-54). Vilnius: Vilnius University Press.
  [Black Lagoon; Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor; Hetalia; Bungou Stray Dogs; Yuri on Ice!!!; How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Hooper, Todd, & Takahashi, Mariko. Stability of translation across sound effect type: Focusing on onomatopoeia in Japanese shonen manga.
  In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference, The Association for Natural Language Processing (pp. 110-114). Kyoto, Japan.

• Iyer, Amrita S. Technology, urban sprawl, and the apocalyptic imagination in Hiroyuia Seshita’s BLAME!
  In Rachel DiNitto (ed.). Eco-disasters in Japanese cinema (pp. 73-88). New York: Columbia University Press.

• Jin, Qian. Multi-vocality induced by Laid-Back Camp among Chinese audiences.
  In Stijn Reijnders, et al. (eds.). Media, place and tourism: Worlds of imagination (pp. 126-139). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Jones, Anna Maria. Neo-Victorian graphic novels: Learning to unmaster the archive.
  In Brenda Ayres & Sarah E. Maier (eds.). The Palgrave handbook of Neo-Victorianism (pp. 295-316). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  [Are You Alice?]

• Jones, Karis, & Storm, Scott. Mimetic masculinities: Young men of color analyze anime texts they love.
  In Leah Panther & Darren Crovitz (eds.). Critical memetic literacies in English education: How do you meme? (pp. 62-73). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Koarai, Ryo. Transnational conflicts and dialogs in Japanese manga consumption.
  In Adam I. Attwood (ed.). Comics and graphic novels – international perspectives, education, and culture (pp. 141-176). London: IntechOpen.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Korff, Johannes Valentin. Imagining the ‘Gypsy’ and the Jew in Japanese animation: The case of Aikawa Shō and Mizushima Seiji.
  In Radmila Mladenova (ed.). Counterstrategies to the antigypsy gaze (pp. 415-433). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
  [Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Lund, Martin. Viking and Old Norse memoryscapes in comics.
  In Sara Ellis Nilsson & Stefan Nyzell (eds.). Viking heritage and history in Europe: Practices and re-creations (pp. 126-141).

• Madrid French, Christine, & Madrid French, Gideon Rey. The architecture of entrapment: Capturing the body and the mind in anime.
  In Vahid Vahdat (ed.). Animate(d) architecture: A spatial investigation of the moving image (pp. 109-128). Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press.
  [Ghost in the Shell; The Tatami Galaxy; Mamoru Oshii]

• Miyashita, Hiroko, & Hall, Alexander. Exploring evolution and religion in Japanese manga and anime: The case of Spirited Away and Ghost in the Shell.
  In Alexander Hall and Will Mason-Wilkes (eds.). Most adaptable to change: Evolution and religion in global popular media (pp. 171-188). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  [Hayao Miyazaki; Mamoru Oshii]

• Monden, Masafumi. The beauty of winter sports: The popularity of figure skating in Japan.
  In Helen Macnaughtan & Verity Postlethwaite (eds.). Handbook of Sport and Japan (pp. 122-142). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

• Murakami, Brandon. YA literature, plus ultra: A case study of the shōnen anime My Hero Academia.
  In Kenneth B. Kidd & Derritt Mason (eds.). Alt kid lit: What children’s literature might be (pp. 127-140). Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

• Myers, Lisa. Artoria Pendragon: Anachronism, gender, and self-acceptance in the Fate anime series of Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi.
  In Karl Fugelso (ed.). Studies in Medievalism XXXIII: (En)gendering Medievalism (pp. 41-60). Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer.

• Pelea, Cringuta Irina. Human encaged: Hikikomori and taijin kyofusho in Japanese popular culture.
  In Cringuta Irina Pelea (ed.). Culture-bound syndromes in popular culture (pp. 39-61). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  [Welcome to the N.H.K.; Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear]

• Potter, Amanda, & Taietti, Guendalina D. M. Manga and the power of the classical object: The merging of Eastern and Western traditions.
  In Anastasia Bakogianni & Luis Unceta Gómez (eds.). Classical reception: New challenges in a changing world (pp. 256-266). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH.

• Rosebaum, Roman. Miyazaki Hayao’s eco-disasters in Japanese cinema: Rereading Nausicaa.
  In Rachel DiNitto (ed.). Eco-disasters in Japanese cinema (pp. 89-104). New York: Columbia University Press.

• Rosenbaum, Roman. The relationship between culture and political humor in Japanese manga.
  In Ofer Feldman (ed.). Communicating political humor in the media: How culture influences satire and irony (pp. 21-43). Singapore: Springer.

• Saha, Ananya. Debunking the normative: Queerness vis-a-vis “magic boys” in fantasy anime.
  In Camille S. Alexander (ed.). Black witches and queer ghosts: Race, gender, and sexual orientation in teen supernatural serials (pp. 41-55). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

• Sakata, Hiroko, & Buckenmeyer, Cécile. The Katako syndrome: Japan’s problem with youth suicide.
  In Elizabeth Brodersen (ed.). Jungian dimensions of the mourning process, burial rituals and access to the Land of the Dead: Intimations of immortality (pp. 247-263). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  [Demon Slayer]

• Schwaab, Herbert. Limited animation, unlimited seriality: The configurations of the serial in the anime series Haha o Tazunete Sanzenri, Akage no An and Tanoshî Mûmin Ikka.
  In Denis Newiak, Dominik Maeder, & Herbert Schwaab (eds.). Television studies and research on series: Theory, history and present of (post-)televisual seriality (pp. 289-311). Wiesbaden, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Sharma, Megha, & Tsuruoka, Yoshimasa. Genre-based character network analysis and emotion sequence analysis for manga.
  In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference, The Association for Natural Language Processing (pp. 1963-1968). Kyoto, Japan.

• Sheenan, Kendra N. Soft power, globalization, and the otaku: Influencing Japanese nationalism within and abroad.
  In Vanessa Frangville, Thierry Kellner, & Frederik Ponjaert (eds.). National identity and millennials in Northeast Asia: Power and contestations in the Digital Age (pp. 37-57). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Smith, Christopher. You can (not) restore: Ecocritique and intergenerational ecological conflict in Evangelion.
  In Rachel DiNitto (ed.). Eco-disasters in Japanese cinema (pp. 119-136). New York: Columbia University Press.

• Stasiowski, Maciej. Construction perservation disorder: The extreme tectonics of urban renewal in postmoden Japanese animation
  In Vahid Vahdat (ed.). Animate(d) architecture: A spatial investigation of the moving image (pp. 85-108). Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press.

• Suan, Stevie. On pedagogy and the personal: Teaching media, the nation, and globalization about/in Japan.
  In Ioannis Gaitanidis and Gregory Poole (eds). Teaching Japan: A handbook (pp. 111-120). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

• Sugano, Motoko. Blithe spirit: Young Ishiguro’s contact with Japanese children’s culture through Shogakukan’s graded educational magazines.
  In Takayuki Shonaka, Takahiro Mimura, & Shinya Morikawa (eds.). Japanese perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro (pp. 13-40). Cham: Switzerland: Springer.

• Taketomi, Ria. Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.
  In Takayuki Shonaka, Takahiro Mimura, & Shinya Morikawa (eds.). Japanese perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro (pp. 41-60). Cham: Switzerland: Springer.

• Tamura, Kaoru. Environmental anxiety and the toxic Earth of Space Battleship Yamato.
  In Rachel DiNitto (ed.). Eco-disasters in Japanese cinema (pp. 73-88). New York: Columbia University Press.

• Thelen, Timo. Pushing ‘LGBT-friendliness’ into Japanese television: A case study of My Brother’s Husband.
  In Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday, & Dany Girard (eds.). New Queer television: From marginalization to mainstreamification (pp. 62-66). Bristol, UK: Intellect.

• Thelen, Timo, & Kim, Sangkyun. The emergence of fan pilgrimage sites – Unintended and intended.
  In Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg, & Maria Lexhagen (eds.). Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations (pp. 31-49). Bristol, UK: Channel View Publications.
  [Attack on Titan]

• Vahdat, Vahid. The slave aesthetics of suburbia: Animate architecture in Howl’s Moving Castle and Up.
  In Vahid Vahdat (ed.). Animate(d) architecture: A spatial investigation of the moving image (pp. 153-168). Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press.
  [Hayao Miyazaki; Studio Ghibli]

• Vaira, Davide. “Listen kid, we’re not fighting a war out there!” Bounty hunters, peacekeepers and pirates in Porco Rosso: The relevance of private companies in international issues.
  In Giuseppe Martinico and Gianpaolo Maria Ruotolo (eds.). The law in graphic narratives: Legal perspectives on comics, manga and anime (pp. 141-176). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
  [Hayao Miyazaki; Studio Ghibli]

• Van der Linden, Martin. Shadowing the brutality and cruelty of nature: On history and human nature in Princess Mononoke.
  In John L. Hennessey (ed.). History and speculative fiction (pp. 225-244). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
  [Hayao Miyazaki; Studio Ghibli]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Vigneri-Beane, Jason. Radical transformation: Bodies, infrastructures, and mixed identities
  In Vahid Vahdat (ed.). Animate(d) architecture: A spatial investigation of the moving image (pp. 85-108). Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press.
  [Akira; Ghost in the Shell; Mamoru Oshii]

• Weldy, Lance. Pilgrimages in the first season of The Flying House anime series.
  In Željka Flegar & Jennifer M. Miskec (eds.). Children’s literature in place: Surveying the landscapes of children’s culture (pp. 244-254). New York: Routledge.

• Winter, Franz. Japanese manga culture and Western esotericism.
  In Lukas K. Pokorny & Astrid Mattes (eds.). Taking seriously, not taking sides: Challenges and perspectives in the study of religions (pp. 139-156). Paderborn, Germany: Brill Schöningh.

• Yadav, Deeksha. Representing Asia in cyberpunk films: Race, gender, and techno-orientalism in Rupert Sanders’ Ghost in the Shell.
  In Simi Malhotra, Zahra Rizv, & Shraddha A. Singh (eds.). Globalization and sense-making practices: Phenomenologies of the global, local and glocal (pp. 257-272). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Yamamura, Takayoshi. Voice as pop culture content – Trans-media, transnational, and cross-language consumption of Japanese voice actors.
  In Adam I. Attwood (ed.). Comics and graphic novels – international perspectives, education, and culture (pp. 22-37). London: IntechOpen.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Yeng, Zhishen, et al. Large language models as manga translators: A case study.
  In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference, The Association for Natural Language Processing (pp. 110-114). Kyoto, Japan.

JOURNAL SPECIAL / THEME ISSUES

Cinema Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image
Volume 16, No. 1 – Anime and Philosophy

International Journal of Comic Art
Volume 26, No. 1 – Women’s Manga A Symposium

• Ogi, Fusami. Toward an expanded field crossing boundaries (pp. 217-218).
• Ogi, Fusami. Shōjo manga: A challenging label in the Global Age (pp. 219-224).
• Denson, Abby. Sharing my shōjo manga Influence at Angoulême (pp. 225-230).
• Bauwens-Sugimoto, Jessica. Kyoto, popular culture, campus life and the Pandemic (pp. 231-239).
• Nagaike, Kazumi. Are there any texts in BL studies? Rethinking narrativity of BL ethnicity in Japan and Southeast Asia (pp. 240-245).

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies

• Volume 5 (12/16/2025)

Mechademia: Second Arc

• Volume 16, Number 2: Media Platforms and Industries (Summer 2024)
• Volume 17, Number 1: Cosplay, Street Fashion, and Subcultural Studies (Winter 2024)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Abdul Jabbar, Mashita, et al. Investigating factors affecting fans’ intention to attend anime events. Information Management and Business Review, 16(1), 43-50.

• Abu-Rayyash, Hussein. From niche to mainstream: Tracing the trajectory of fansubbing in the Arab world. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature & Translation, 7(2), 54-66.

• Ambrosetti, Nadia. Fighting with rotating blades, boomerangs, and crushing punches: A history of mecha from a robotics point of view. Foundations of Science, 29(1), 59-85.

• Ameri, Mina, Honka, Elisabeth, & Xie, Ying. Watching intensity and media franchise engagement. Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 22(3), 291-356.
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• Aoyama, Reijiro, & Ng, Royce. Artificial flavors: Nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation. Cultural Studies, 38(2), 245-272.

• Azlan, Nur Saquifah Alsyah. A multimodal analysis of Boys Love (BL) manga covers. Intercultural Studies, 28, 5-15.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Bauer, Rebekah. Queerness in Japan: The bishōnen revival in Boys’ Love manga. The Ethnograph: Journal of Anthropological Studies, 8, 56-64.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Booth, Emily. Love and beauty on the battlefield: Transcultural influence and transformation from Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon to Anglophone Young Adult fantasy. International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 5(1), 1-22.
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• Brookes, Gareth. Stylistic co-existence and the chronotope in Stone Fruit and Onwards Towards Our Noble Deaths. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 15(3), 379-398.

• Brooks, Thomas R., et al. “Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed”: The influence of gender and in-group identification on transhumanist orientation. Journal of Digital Social Research, 6(3), 147-162.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Butler, Catherine. There and back again: Hayao Miyazaki, Hiromasa Yonebayashi and international anime locations. Annals of the Institute for Comparative Studies of Culture, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, 85, 107-122.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***
  [Studio Ghibli; Heidi; Howl’s Moving Castle; The Borrower Arrietty, When Marnie Was There, Mary and the Witch’s Flower; Hedwig and the Witch; Goro Miyazaki]

• Chan, Leo Tak-hung. Transculturation in East Asia: Literary and media adaptations, past and present. Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 11(1), 4-18.
  [Hana Yori Dango]

• Chan Suet Kay, Rachel. Moriarty the Patriot: Sherlockian manga and the game of city living. Journal of Ethnic and Diversity Studies, 2(2).
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Chapman, Michael. Hard spirits: Architectural apparitions in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. Architectural Design, 94(4), 126-133.

• Cho, Song (Joseph). Learning English through manga (Japanese comic books). TESOL Journal, 15(3), e764.

• Clopton, Kay K. Falling silently like snow: Interpretations of sound as a lived experience in A Sign of Affection. International Journal of Comic Art, 26(1), 73-95.

• Covel, Casey. How the persuasive narrative of Cells at Work! impacts health education. Science2Practice, 2(1), 19-29.
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  Curtis, Neal. Elliptical testimony: Substituting, masking, and omitting images in graphic medicine. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 15(6), 978-994.
  [I’m a Terminal Cancer Patient, but I’m Fine; Hilnama]

• De Guzman, Kevin Michael. This is not Soccer!!!: Blue Lock’s poststructuralist approach to soccer. Soccer & Society, 25(8), 1063-1078.

• Di Martino, Simona. Empowering girls in the transnational W.I.T.C.H. magazine and comic series. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal,17(3), 46-62.

• Di Paolo, Lorenzo, & Di Franco, Manuela. Lady Oscar’s transmedia universe between gender representation and seriality in the Digital Age. Funes. Journal of Narratives and Social Sciences, 7(1), 102-120.
  [Rose of Versailles]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Dittmar, Jakob. Defining forms or types (not genres): One-panel comics are a contradiction in terms – Japan and Southeast Asia. International Journal of Comic Art, 26(2), 364-372.

• Donsomsakulkij, Weeraya. Posthumanist reflections in J.M Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) and Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001): Alternative environmental ethics of South Africa and Japan. The New English Teacher, 18(1), 15-22.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Drum, Duskin. Surprising pedagogy through Japanese anime. Performance Matters, 10(1), 94-106.

• Fabbretti, Matteo. Japanese visual narrative in translation. Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture, 35(3), 29-38.
  [My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Ferreira, Alexandra Costa. Translating onomatopoeias: A comparison between European and Brazilian Portuguese in the translation of manga. Translation Matters, 6(2), 80-99.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Folina, Maria-Theodora, Agapitou, Chrysa, & Folinas, Dimitris. Do comics affect pop culture? The case of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. International Journal of Comic Art, 26(1), 303-322.

• Guinibert, Matt, & Page, Jo. That time I was reincarnated as a problematic trope: Viewer preferences and cultural trends in reincarnation isekai anime. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 13(1), 89-105.

• Gundermann, Christine, & Wright, Amie. Graphic collections and resources. International Public History, 7(2), 119-123.

• Harputlu Yamak, Yagmur, & Işık, Yasemen. Anime watching: is a new kind of addiction? Evaluation of psychopathologies and psychosocial factors associated with problematic anime watching among adolescents. Middle East Current Psychology, 31, article 73.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Hayvon, John C. Youth culture and new media as revitalized social justice pedagogy: A transcultural analysis of Freire and Urobuchi. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 19(4), 302-316.
  [Puella Magi Madoka Magica]

• Ito, Rika. Please take her as your wife: Mediatizing indigenous Ainu in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy. Language, Culture & Society, 6(1), 80-104.

• Jaramillo Chavez, Ivan Dario. Beyond the Spiral: Azami Kurotani’s character as a platform for fan work in Junji Itō’s Uzumaki. Humanities Forum, Nagoya University, 7, 329-344.

• Johnson, Daniel. “The emotions that get stuck in your throat”: Expressivity in speech, script and sound in Japanese animation. Animation Studies, 19.
  [My Dress-Up Darling; Komi Can’t Communicate]

• *** OPEN ACCESS ***
  Kartika, Diana, & Jumanto, Jumanto. Refusal politeness within anime: How the Japanese youngsters learn to refuse. International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, 12(1), 427-440.
  [Kaguya-Sama: Love is War]

• Kim, Se Young. ‘Say my name’: Slam Dunk, the importation of manga in South Korea, and post-crisis nostalgia in East Asia. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 16(1), 23-41.

• Kuo, Yen-Chun, Ni, Hsing-Chang, & Liu, Chun-Hao. The associations between self-rated autistic traits, social camouflaging, and mental health outcomes in Taiwanese anime, comics and games (ACG) doujin creators: An exploratory study. BMC Psychology, 12, article 531.
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• Labra, Diego. Caught between manga and the graphic novel: Two cartoonists’ trajectories in contemporary Argentinian “national comics”. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. 14.
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  Labra, Diego, & Del Vigo, Gerardo. From analog to digital, between love and hate: The birth of manganime fandom and industry in Argentina. Fandom | Cultures | Research: Online Journal for Fan and Audience Studies, 1(1), 77-92.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• La Marca, Paolo. Horror manga: Themes and stylistics of Japanese horror comics. Humanities, 13(1), article 8.
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• Lee, Junghae, & Hill, Keiko. Manga records enhancement project at the University of Washington Libraries. Journal of East Asian Libraries, 179, article 4.
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• Lee, Wan-Chen, Hirt, Juliana, & Cho, Hyerim. From fandom to fadeaway: Unpacking factors contributing to anime dropout. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 989-991.

• Leshner, Conner E., et al. Fandom identification and in-person activities as mediators of the association between cosplay and psychological well-being. The Journal of Fandom Studies, 12(1), 59-76.

• Leung, Kevin, & Cho, Vincent. Motivation for writing long online reviews: A big data analysis of an anime community. Internet Research, 34(5), 1845-1871.

• Li, Chunxiao, Ji, Mingjun, McCabe, Scott, & Bi, Jian-Wu. Fantasy curiosity: A new theoretical perspective to understand anime pilgrimage. Current Issues in Tourism, 27(24), 4542-4560.

• Li, Zhizi. Disasters and gender in Japanese anime films: Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name and Weathering with You. Disaster Prevention and Management, 33(4), 335-352.

• Liang, Jianjun. Tearing through the screen: Diegetic credits, dialogic media, and fictional reality in Kon Satoshi’s Paprika. Japan Forum, 36(3), 257-283.

• Liang, Yating, & Li, Haiyan. Boys’ Love (BL) literacy products consumption as leisure and its impact on perceptions of LGBTQ+ people: A case study of the Chinese BL fan community in North America. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 7(3), 257-278.

• Liao, Quanyu. Visions of posthumanity: A posthumanist narrative study on Rebuild of Evangelion. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, article 1061.
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• Liu, Jionghao, & Yang, Ling. Censorship on Japanese anime imported into mainland China. Transformative Works & Cultures, 42.

• Liu, Tianjian, Liu, Sijun, & Lee, Yee Ming. Attendees’ experiences of anime conventions in the United States: A netnography study. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 15(3), 394-415.

• Loh, Chin Ee. What makes adolescents want to read? Examining adolescents’ contemporary print and new media (fiction) leisure reading through mobile ethnography. Language and Education, 38(4), 596-616.

• Longo, Angela. Engaging the present, embracing the past: Pop culture museums and cultural continuity in Fukushima. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(5), 658-674.

• Mahler, Leah S., & Mayer, Richard E. Anime as a medium for science learning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 40(2), 786-797.
  [Cells at Work]

• Maselli, Vincenzo. Narrating fabrics: Nostalgia in animated puppets’ skin. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 19(1), 27-42.

• Meng, Xiaoxiao & Li, Yungeng. Technology-enabled subcultures among Chinese youths: smartphone addiction, virtual social capital, and ACGN addiction. International Journal of Mobile Communications, 23(1), 43-60.

• Nakamura, Maiko. On one’s own or with someone else: Desire and gourmandism in contemporary Japanese mangas. Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, 24(3), 26-35.
  [Solitary Gourmet; What Did You Eat Yesterday?]

• Noh, Susan. Global media streams: Netflix and the changing ecosystem of anime production. Television & New Media, 25(3), 234-250.

• Nuradi, Radiya. The anime network: Materiality in anime pilgrimage. Journal of Religion in Japan, 13(2-3), 119-142.

• Ohsawa, Yuki. Charismatic actors and devout audiences: Kabuki meets anime in Super Kabuki II. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 23(3), article 10.
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• Okuyama, Yoshiko, & Kurikawa, Osamu. Love’s in Sight: Japan’s graphic narrative of blindness. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 19(3-4).
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• Ono, Kosei. The first Tarzan manga, Boken Tarzan. International Journal of Comic Art, 26(1), 283-287.

• Oyama, Shinji. The last paradise for creative workers? The case of Shueisha and Weekly Shōnen Jump. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 30(7), 930-945.

• Patzner, Claire. “The world is cursed”: Studio Ghibli’s radical environmental philosophy. Linguaculture, 15(2), 151-174.
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• Pizziconi, Barbara, & Iwasaki, Noriko. Friends as mediators in study abroad contexts in Japan: negotiating stereotypical discourses about Japanese culture. The Language Learning Journal, 52(1), 49-65.

• Quintairos-Soliño, Alba, & Ojeda-García, Francisco Miguel. Science, folklore, and ecology of knowledges in Aoyama’s Detective Conan anime. Ikala, Revista De Lenguaje Y Cultura, 29(1), 1–17.

• Reider, Noriko Tsunoda. Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba: Oni, vampires, and sexuality. Japan Review, 39, 203-219.
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• Ristè, Camil Valerio. With(out) love from Japan: An analysis of the asexual spectrum in Shirono Honami’s I want to be the wall and Isaki Uta’s Is Love the Answer? DIVE-IN – An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion, 4(1), 153-176.
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• Ristola, Jacqueline. Going Gonzo: Crunchyroll, anime streaming, and unpaid digital labour. Kinephanos: Journal of Media Studies and Popular Culture, 10(1).
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• Robertson, Wesley C., Hambleton, Alexandra, & Hiramoto, Mie. The beginning of despair: Aggressive Retsuko and the Sanrioization of women’s ‘transgressive rage’. Japan Forum, 36(4), 385-411.
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• Ropers, Erik. Narrating against dominance: Women and organized crime in Japanese discourse and popular culture. Contemporary Japan, 36(1), 86-102.

• Selamatan, Kenny. The ontology of violence in Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 15(2), 212-232.

• Sellés de Lucas, Victor, & Hernández-Pérez, Manuel. Exegesis and authorial agency through Judeo-Christian iconography in Japanese anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-97) as an open work. Imafronte, 31, 224–237.
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• Severino, Filipe Segurado. Using Japanese pop cultural heritage to create a tourist product Exploring otaku tourism. Turyzm/Tourism, 34(2), 103-114.
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• Steains, Timothy Kazuo. Softboys and mixed race Asian masculinity online: The TikToks of Jiyayjt. Australian Feminist Studies, 39(119-120), 119-141.

• Stephens Jr., David F. RDCWorld: Performing the Black nerd in new media. Communication, Culture & Critique, 17(1), 72-79.

• Tan, Yan. ‘Capturing the shining moments’: Performing liminoid Seichi Junrei on social media. Current Issues in Tourism, 27(12), 1959-1972.

• Tang, Ruiyang, et al. The correlation between the MBTI-based personality analysis of anime characters and their popularity. Behavioral Sciences, 14(7), article 522.
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• Teshome, Martin. Onomatopoeia in a Japanese-to-English translation of All Out!! – A case study. Bulletin of Nippon Bunri University, 52(1), 17-26.
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• Thomas-Parr, Georgia. Anime girls embodied: An introduction to British maid cosplay. Feminist Media Studies, 24(2), 224-239.

• Tran, Thi Nguyet Anh. Screening, modifying, adapting: The techniques of censoring Japanese manga aims at young adults published in contemporary Vietnam. Journal of Global Studies, 14, 97-121.

• Tze, Yu-Ke. ‘Terebi banare’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(1), 99-118.

• Ursini, Francesco Alessio & Samo, Giuseppe. Italian places in Japanese manga: A study on topophilia in graphic narratives. Journal on Literary Semantics: An International Review, 53(1), 39-65.

• Waggoner, Emilie. Isekai as a reflection of college student transition theory. Popular Culture Review, 35(2), 250-260.

• Whaley, Ben. Who let the dogs out? Race as illness in Tezuka Osamu’s Ode to Kirihito. Journal of Japanese Studies, 50(1), 37-63.

• Yamaura, Chigusa. An imagined shrinking community: Japanese nationalism and The Chronology of the Future. Japanese Studies, 44(1), 25-47.

• Yi, Sun. Miike Takashi’s Crows Zero and adaptive authorship revisited. Adaptation, 17(2), 167-190.

• Yonename, Shoko, & Weinstein, Philip. Reimagining extinction in Australia and Japan: ‘Voices’ of the Tasmanian tiger and Hokkaido wolf. Japanese Studies, 44(1), 113-125.
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• Yoshioka, Motomu. Japanese manga adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s Salome. Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 7(1), 166-196.
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• Yu, Wenhsin. Sherlock Holmes in Shinjuku: Intertextuality and community in Case File nº221: Kabukicho. Annual Research Report of Promis, 3(1), 67-78.
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• Zhang, Cecilia. Beyond boundaries: Evaluating BL/yaoi subject headings in academic library classification. Journal of East Asian Libraries, 179, article 2.
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• Nakasawa, Sachiko. The transition of fashion illustration in Japan. Fashion Theory, 28(7), 927-969.
  
  Translated by Camila Gutiérrez & Kendra McDuffie, with a contextualizing essay entitled “Fashion illustration theory: Repairing the links from ukiyo-e to shōjo manga”.
  
  Originally published in 1997 as “Wagakuni ni okeru fasshon itasutoreeshon no hensen”, Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design 43(5), 13–22.

• Natsume, Fusanosuke. An extremely personal take on the history of manga studies. International Journal of Comic Art, 26(2), 252-264.
  
  Translated, with an introduction, by Jon Holt and Teppei Fukuda. Originally published in 2023 as “Gokush-iteki manga kenkyūshi-ron”, Kotoba, 50, 70-75. Translation also published in CLOSURE. Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung, 10 (March 2024).

• Takahashi, Ryo. From the Holy Land to the homeland: The impact of anime broadcasts on economic growth. Tokyo: Waseda Institute of Political Economy.
  [WINPEC Working Paper Series No. E2402]
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• Takekuma Kentarô. “Shape metaphors” at a glance!: An illustrated guide to understanding 120 keiyu in manga. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 24(3), translation 2.
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  Translated, with an introduction, by Karen Curtin and Satomin Newsom.
  
  Originally published in 1995 as “Hitome de wakaru ‘keiyu’ zukan”, in Takekuma Kentarō, Natsume Fusanosuke, et al. (eds.). Manga no Yomikata (pp. 78-105). Tokyo: Takarajimasha.