Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2025

This Bibliography is updated continuously/on a rolling basis. Suggestions for additional materials to include are always very much welcome!

[updated: January 1, 2026]

— Monographs — Essay Collections — Book Chapters —
— Encyclopedia Articles — Journal Articles

MONOGRAPHS

• Exner, Eike. Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

• Horbinski, Andrea. Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

ESSAY COLLECTIONS

• Armstrong, David, & De La Noval, Roberto (eds.). Anime, Religion, and Theology. New York: Bloomsbury.

• Coleman, Lindsay, Denison, Rayna, & Desser, David (eds.). The Many Worlds of Takahata Isao. Honolulu: The University of Hawai’i Press.

• Nardi, Dominic J., & Fancher, Keli (eds.). Studio Ghibli Animation as Adaptations: Investigating How the Japanese Animation Powerhouse Reimagines Stories. New York: Bloomsbury.

OTHER BOOKS

• Espejo, Erica Victoria. The Fangirl Diaries: Finding Community in the Anime Fandom of the ’90’s and ’00’s. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

• Hawkins, Ashley, et al. Manga Goes to School: Cultivating Engagement and Inclusion in K–12 Settings. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Akagi, Kai. “But you are dead”: Life-death ambiguation in Yukito Ayatsuji and Hiro Kiyohara’s Another and Revelation 3:1–6.
  In Brandon R. Grafius & John W. Morehead (eds.). Horror Comics and Religion: Essays on Framing the Monstrous and the Divine (pp. 161-176). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

• Anderson, Brianna. Representations of youth environmental activism and agency in Aika Tsubota’s Secrets of the Earth.
  In Peter C. Kunze & Victoria Ford Smith (eds.). Producing Children: Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity (pp. 47-62). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

• Berndt, Jaqueline. Exhibiting manga, representing “Japan”.
  In Melanie Trede, Christine Guth, & Mio Wakita (eds.). Japanese Art – Transcultural Perspectives (pp. 544-566). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

• Bernola, Allegra Clara Rosa. Techno-orientalism in modern cyberpunk cinema.
  In Frauke Reitemeier, et al. (eds.). Challenging Power Positions in Selected Anglophone Fiction (pp. 23-54). Göttingen, Germany: Göttingen University Press.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***
  [Mamoru Oshii; Ghost in the Shell]

• Binark, Mutlu Ferruh. Geographic variation in admiration of Japanese popular culture products: Observations from Türkiye.
  In Hasan Topaçoğlu (ed.). 100 Years of Turkish-Japanese Relations: From History to Economy, Culture to Art (pp. 200-214). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Burke, Jonathan. Hidden archives: An exploration of Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
  In Carrie Kay Syma, Robert G. Weiner, & Donnell Calender (eds.). Drawn to the Stacks: Essays on Libraries, Librarians and Archives in Comics and Graphic Novels (pp. 13-21). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

• Chang, Weijung. Regulation and negotiation: A case study on sexual expressions in Japanese Boys’ Love manga and TV drama.
  In Mathieu Deflem, et al. (eds.). Law and Culture in Japan: Institutions, Justice, and Media (pp. 183-197). Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing.

• 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]

• Ciesielska, Dominika. Yuri!!! on ICE fanfiction: Canon and character-building in alternate universes.
  In Dominika Ciesielska, Nicolle Lamerichs, & Agata Zarzycka (eds.). Affect in Fandom: Fan Creators and Productivity (pp. 25-44). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Cowan. Douglas E. Nothing is what it seems, no one is who they are: The problem of “religion” in the work of Junji Ito.
  In Brandon R. Grafius & John W. Morehead (eds.). Horror Comics and Religion: Essays on Framing the Monstrous and the Divine (pp. 161-176). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

• Diamant, Cristina Corina. We have always lived in the bunker: Toxic nostalgia in the post-traumatic culture of Attack on Titan.
  In Simon Bacon (ed.). Toxic Nostalgia on Screen: Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 255-270). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

• Fabbretti, Matteo. Manga scanlation.
  In Michał Borodo & Jorge Díaz-Cintas (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences (pp. 454-465). New York: Routledge.

• Fabbretti, Matteo, & Idone Cassone, Vincenzo. Japanese manga, younger audiences, and translation.
  In Michał Borodo & Jorge Díaz-Cintas (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences (pp. 361-372). New York: Routledge.

• Geiling, Ariadne. Detective Conan and the modernisation of traditional detective stories.
  In Jan-Erik Leonhardt & Britta Viebrock (eds.). Popular Series in English Language Education (pp. 165-176). Tubingen, Germany: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.

• Hiromoto, Yuka. Jane Austen meets manga: Yoko Hanabusa’s Emma.
  In Tristanne Connolly & Kimiyo Ogawa (eds.). Austen in Asia (pp. 303-322). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore.

• Igarashi, Yoshikuni. Can Cool Japan be the next hot (academic) thing?: The state of manga studies in North America.
  In Mai Kataoka (ed). Japanese Studies Around the World 2024 (pp. 17-22). Kyoto, Japan: International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Inagaki, Tsutomu. Development and peculiarities of heritage tourism and touristic heritage in Japan.
  In V. Dao Truong & David W. Knight (eds.). Heritage Tourism: Vietnam and Asia (pp. 59-75). Singapore: Springer Singapore.

• Ishida, Yoriko. The labyrinth of gender in The Twin Knights: Osamu Tezuka’s world between diversity and limits.
  In Bernard Montoneri (ed.). Writing, Retelling, and Critically Reading Children’s and Young Adult Tales (pp. 189-205). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Izumi, Katsuya. Transgender mothers and ikai in Japanese films.
  In Susan Liddy & Deirdre Flynn (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen (pp. 108-119). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  [Satoshi Kon; Tokyo Godfathers]

• Josephy-Hernandez, Daniel. A brief history of anime censorship in the United States, México and Costa Rica: Reception and adverse reactions.
  In Ruselle Meade, Claire Shih, & Kyung Hye Kim (eds.). Routledge Handbook of East Asian Translation (pp. 177-195). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Kawamura, Satofumi. The politics of maritime imaginary in Modern Japan.
  In Kwai-Cheung Lo & Hung-chiung Li (eds.). Entangled Waterscapes in Asia (pp. 61-76). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
  [Kantai Collection]

• King, Emerald L. More than meets the eye: Kimono, cosplay, technology and gender.
  In Barbara Hartley (ed.). Gender, Costume, Textile, Technique: Women, Clothing, Cultural Representation and Modern Japan (pp. 280-306). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

• Kojima, Yuka, & Fujimoto, Takayuki. Japanese syllabary and sound symbolism perceived as weight: A visualization system for manga ideophone impressions.
  In Grzegorz Borowik, Grzegorz Chmaj, & Robert Waszkowski (eds.). Models and Methods for Systems Engineering (pp. 293-303). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

• Lee, Jung Soo. The alchemized dis/abled body as recuperative site in Fullmetal Alchemist.
  In David S. Roh, et al. (eds.). Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions (pp. 249-266). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

• Liu, Kaiwen. A study on the cross-cultural communication of Japanese animation in China – Taking Makoto Shinkai as an example.
  In Fong Peng Chew (ed.). Global Dialogue on Media Dynamics, Trends and Perspectives on Public Relations and Communication: Proceedings of the International Conference on Public Relations and Media Communication (pp. 9-13). Abingdon, UK: CRC Press.

• Mandujano-Salazar, Yunuen Ysela. The impact of anime in Mexico-centered adult animation and global Mexican representation.
  In David S. Dalton (ed.). Animation in Mexico, 2006 to 2022: Box Office, Web Shorts, and Streaming (pp. 149-174). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

• Poon, Erica Ka-Yan. Reaffirming Japanese identity through the multiverse: A response to post-3.11 uncertainties from Your Name.
  In Paul Booth (ed.). Entering the Multiverse: Perspectives on Alternate Universes and Parallel Worlds (pp. 278-289). New York: Routledge.
  [Makoto Shinkai]

• Potter, Amanda. Rome as dystopia and Japan as utopia in Thermae Romae (2012) and Netflix anime series Thermae Romae Novae (2022).
  In Yeojin Kim, et al. (eds.). Contemporary Asian Popular Culture Vol. 1: Squid Game, Utopias, and Dystopias (pp. 197-214). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Presswood, Alane. Food in popular culture.
  In Christina S. Beck. (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture (pp. 45-57). New York: Routledge.
  [Studio Ghibli]

• Rosenbaum, Roman. Pop culture translations in graphic art: Calamitous manga.
  In Ruselle Meade, Claire Shih, & Kyung Hye Kim (eds.). Routledge Handbook of East Asian Translation (pp. 131-153). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Rosete, Alfredo R. M. Navigating labor and environmental justice with Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece.
  In Yeojin Kim, et al. (eds.). Contemporary Asian Popular Culture Vol. 1: Squid Game, Utopias, and Dystopias (pp. 197-214). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Schrage, William. Female kings and feminized warships: Moefication in the Fate and Kantai Collection media mixes.
  In Dean Conrad & Sayuri Hirano (eds.). Gender Fluidity in Japanese Arts and Culture: Critical Essays (pp. 161-176). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

• Sukotjo, Kania Arini. Shipping in fandom: Structure or division? A case study of fans’ negative behaviour in Voltron Fandom.
  In Natalie Le Clure (ed.). Beyond Fandom: The Dark Side of Social Media Discourse (pp. 75-94). Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing.

• Tan, Ivan. Finding progressive rock in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
  In Chris Anderton & Lori Burns (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination (pp. 291-301). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Wan, Shu. Kizuna first! Representation of Japanese librarianship in the manga Yoake no Toshokan.
  In Carrie Kay Syma, Robert G. Weiner, & Donnell Calender (eds.). Drawn to the Stacks: Essays on Libraries, Librarians and Archives in Comics and Graphic Novels (pp. 73-78). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

• Yang, Xinye. Between history and fantasy: Fan discourse and ideological tension in Chinese Axis Power Hetalia fandom.
  In Natalie Le Clure (ed.). Beyond Fandom: The Dark Side of Social Media Discourse (pp. 205-222). Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing.

• Zhang, Wenqing. The rumbling: Exploring strengths of the Japanese culture industry in Attack on Titan.
  In Fong Peng Chew (ed.). Global Dialogue on Media Dynamics, Trends and Perspectives on Public Relations and Communication: Proceedings of the International Conference on Public Relations and Media Communication (pp. 3-8). Abingdon, UK: CRC Press.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

Ihab Soloul & Britt Baillie (eds.). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

• Spanjers, Rik. Comics and conflict.
  [Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths; Mizuki Shigeru]

Alexa Alex Joubin (ed.). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Myklebost, Svenn-Arve. Comics, manga, graphic novels, and Shakespeare.

JOURNAL SPECIAL / THEME ISSUES

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies

• Volume 6, Number 2 (12/16/2025)
• Volume 6, Number 1: Proceedings from Transnational Perspectives on Anime: A Symposium
  (10/22/2025)

Mechademia: Second Arc

• Volume 18, Number 1 (Winter 2025): Death and Other Endings
• Volume 17, Number 2 (Summer 2025): Methodologies

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Acero, Nibaldo. Besieged childhood: Intermedial representation of children in Roberto Bolaño and contemporary Latin American culture. Chasqui: Revista de Literatura y Cultura Latinoamericana e Indígena, 54(2), 239-256.
  [The Promised Neverland]

• Adams, Annis Lee. The collection, organization, promotion, and use of graphic novels, comics, and manga: A survey of academic libraries. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 51(5), article 103108.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Alkhayat, Marwa. Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008): A cli-fi reading of Japanese anime. Japanese Studies, 45(1), 23-36.

• Allison, Brent. Colonialism, comics, and clubs: A geography teacher’s guide to partnering with Japanese animation fans. The Geography Teacher, 22(1), 52-57.

• Anandhasayanam, Samyukthah. Memory and nationalism in postwar Japanese animation. Journal for Cultural Research, 29(4), 711-729.
  [The Wind Rises; The Boy and the Heron; Grave of the Fireflies; In This Corner of the World]

• Arigayota, Annisa, et al. Effects of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Studio Ghibli films on young people’s sense of exploration, calm, mastery and skill, purpose and meaning, and overall happiness in life: Exploratory randomized controlled study. JMIR Serious Games, 13, e76522.
  [Hayao Miyazaki; My Neighbor Totoro; Kiki’s Delivery Service]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Azlan, Nur Saqifah Aisyah. Repetition, script play, and dual meanings: Titles as information and aesthetic on Boys Love (BL) manga covers. Japanese Studies, 45(3), 311-327.

• Bacani, Casie, & Sarvenaz, Hatami. Informal learning of Japanese as a foreign language through watching anime. The Language Learning Journal, 53(2), 159-172.

• Bai, Jing. Otaku and AI: Reconsidering human, machine, and animal. Transformative Works and Cultures, 46.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Cale, Andrew S. Manga: An underutilized resource in medical education. Medical Science Educator, 35(1), 517-522.

• Casale, Cooper. The bad stuff: Dragon Ball and a theory of anime filler. Science Fiction Film & Television, 18(2), 231-248.

• Cervelli, Filippo. Mindless happiness: Presentism, utopia, and dystopian suspension of thought in Psycho-Pass. Japan Forum, 37(5), 619-641.

• Chan Suet Kay, Rachel. Alternative fairy-tale endings and the main character syndrome: “Happily ever after” for the woke generation. Feminist Media Studies, 25(8), 1014-1017.

• Chen, Manting, & Hu, Rocco Juanlei. The host in the shell: Constructing female identity in the embodied animated media. New Media & Society, 27(6), 3429-3448.

• Cheung, Sing. The girl’s body, climate, and neoliberalism in Weathering with You. Papers: Explorations Into Children’s Literature, 29(1), 26-45.
  [Makoto Shinkai]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Cho, Chi-Hang. Imagining the Red Star: Interweaving reality and fiction in Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ’s manga biography of Mao Zedong. Hong Kong Journal of Japanese Studies, 1, 1-17.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Cho, Lydia Y., et al. Sexual objectification, sexualization, and appearance-related themes in anime: A content analysis. Sex Roles, 91(11), article 77.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Choi, Jackson. The panopticon of Japanese collectivism in The Screw People. Alight, 2, 34-47.
  [Tamaki Wakaki]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Chu, Leo. Prosthetic kokoro: Technics and affects in Japan’s robot and idol anime. Science Fiction Studies, 52(3), 483-502.
  [Idolmaster: Xenoglossia]

• Chui, Don Lok Tung, & Chan, Lik Sam. Boys’ Love as conditional resilience: How gay and bisexual men from Hong Kong consume Boys’ Love. Sexuality & Culture, 29(2), 988-1006.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Cohn, Neil, et al. The influence of writing systems on comics layouts. Cognition, 260, article 106135.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Córdoba-Arroyo, Esteban.

• Crawford, Joseph. Baited: A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow and the Anglophone reception of Japanese yuri romance manga. Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 14.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Crombie, Zoe. From Little Mermaid to feral child: The rebellious trajectory of the wild girl in Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo. Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook, 23, 137-149.

• Cruz Nogueira, Jade Gabrielle. Forest mythology symbols in contemporary Japanese cinema. New Readings, 20, 24-47.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***
  [Hayao Miyazaki; Isao Takahata; Tamahiro Omori; My Neighbor Totoro; Pom Poko; Princess Mononoke; Spirited Away; The Light of a Firefly Forest]

• Debnath, Kunal, & Kumar, Nagendra. Full Metal Alchemist and the hero’s journey: Decoding the monomyth in Hiromu Arakawa’s shōnen masterpiece. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 11(2), 165-182.

• DeLoach, Brian, & Welch, Savannah. Thirty years later: Sacred scripture, Ghost in The Shell, and Our Lady of Perpetual Cyberpunk. SFRA Review, 55(1), 38-48.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Denison, Rayna. Anime franchising in Japan: Animation and the diversity of media mix practice. Film Quarterly, 79(2), 62-68.

• El Ali, Yasmin, Al-Adwan, Amer, & Al-Jabri, Hanan. Exploring the landscape of Arabic fansubbing: dynamics and emerging trends. Cogent Social Sciences, 11(1), article 2070485.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Foley, Sean. To see the Kingdom through a new lens: Vision 2030 and the Saudi film industry. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 17(4), 316-336.

• Fontana, Enrico, et al. Emergence of calling in the domain of creative work, and the role of context: The stories of manga artists. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 163, article 104181.

• Fukuda, Makiko. Exploring strategies to connect foreign language education with people skills: Nurturing intercultural understanding through the rich cultural tapestry of Japanese anime. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 35(3), 1351-1361.

• Garbelli, Francesco. One Piece! Towards a figural semiopraxis of freedom. Carte Semiotiche, 12(1), 151-181.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Germer, Andrea. Queer carnival, gender, and Fascist moments in Shinkai Makoto’s Kimi no na wa (Your Name, 2016). The Journal of Japanese Studies, 51(1), 145-178.

• Ghosal, Anindita, & Modak, Arindam. Visualising entangled Gaia in eco-dystopian graphic narratives Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and The Snake and the Lotus. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 16(3), 584-599.
  [Hayao Miyazaki]

• Gomez, Roman G., et al. The power of anime: Using anime for education and outreach in STEM. Frontiers in Education, 10.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Hayano, Shingo, Kamata, Kimoko, & Ezawa, Minori. Traditional culture education using manga: KATANA by Kimiko Kamata as an example. The Tsuru University Review, 101, 1-14.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Heißenberger, Tim. “We were nothing but cattle”: Carnism and power relations in the manga Series Yakusoku no Nebārando. Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 17(1), 53-72.
  [The Promised Neverland]

• Hridhya, M. S., et al. A case study of manga as a self-regulation technique for internalizing disorders. Geopsychiatry, 2, article 100028.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Ito Okuda, Akiyo. Abraham Lincoln, Katherine Johnson, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Japanese educational manga: Three Southerners, three Americans. Journal of Southern History, 91(4), 645-650.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Itoh, Megu, Fielding, Montgomery, & Hourigan, Taylor. Derailing the capitalist engine: Theorizing relations of mujō through Mugen Train. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 111(1), 23-44.

• Jaramillo Chavez, Ivan Dario. Beyond the panel: Cinematism and affective responses in Itō Junji’s Tomie. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 16(3), 573-583.

• Johnson, Ryan. ‘It’s nuts or nothin’’: Grotesque, carnival and postmodernism in Chainsaw Man. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 11(2), 183-200.

• Joyce, Caitlin. “I wish my life was like this”: Queer identity work in BL fandom. Transformative Works and Cultures, 46.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Keene, Andrea. Japanese animation: Between ecocriticism and protest art. Japan Forum, 37(3), 403-425.
  [Hayao Miyazaki; Isao Takahata; Masashi Abi; Pom Poko; Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind; Blue Gender]

• Kijima, Yoshimasa. Cultural omnivorousness of young people in Japan, South Korea, and the United States – using latent class analysis. Japanese Journal of Sociology, 34(1), 6-23.

• Kinoshita, Anju. Reimagining aesthetics and labor in the Japanese manga industry: A case study of arts-based research at Artist Village Aso 096k. Arts, 14(6), article 171.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Kishine, Minako. Intercultural communication skills in the classroom: Using dubbed Miyazaki anime. The Journal of Kanda University of International Studies, 37, 171-192.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Kim, Eunjin (Anna), et al. Novelty vs. trust in virtual influencers: Exploring the effectiveness of human-like virtual influencers and anime-like virtual influencers. International Journal of Advertising: The Review of Marketing Communications, 44(3), 453-483.

• Koshiba, Yusuke, & Saito, Ryo. Disaster education: Do manga materials based on the overlooked concept of postevacuation behaviors affect selective attention in people returning immediately after a major earthquake to evacuated buildings posing Natech risks? International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 128, article 105701
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Kohyama, Satomi. Japanese animation culture supported by fandom: Laws, internal rules, and self-regulations. The Journal of Economic Studies, University of Toyama, 70(2-3), 129-162.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Kudo, Yuma. The use of ‘Cool Japan’ in inbound tourism: A critical analysis of the Cool Japan Forest Project. International Journal of Contents Tourism, 8, 1-22.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Lamarre, Thomas. Paratopia: Anime, school clubs, and the aims of education. Japan Forum, 37(5), 642-665.

• Lavrentyeva, Anastasia, Patlamazoglou, Lefteris, & Mackie, Grace. The role of engagement with BL manga on queer young people’s sense of belonging. Journal of LGBT Youth, 22(2), 246-272.

• Lee, Siyoon. From “who” to “how”: The evolution of ecologism, pacifism, and feminism in Hayao Miyazaki from the perspective of critical theory. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 26(6), 935-951.
  [Studio Ghibli; Kiki’s Delivery Service; Spirited Away; Howl’s Moving Castle]

• Lee, Yeh-Han, & DeJong, William. Depictions of firearms and other projectile weapons in top-selling Japanese manga. Psychological Reports, 128(1), 198-210.

• Lewis, A. David. The Loneliness Epidemic and the comics of Nagata Kabi. Graphic Medicine Review, 5(1).
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Liang, Mei-Ya. Transcreation on social media through translingual English. Asian Englishes, 27(1), 141-158.

• Lin, Jian, et al. Instance-guided anime editing with a curated large-scale dataset. The Visual Computer, 41(9), 6715-6727.

• Lindblom, Simon. Monsters in our shared world: Aesthetic Action, and the billionaire creators of Historical Action. Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 17(1), article 2559454.
  [Naoki Urusawa; Monster; Pluto]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Louckx, Audrey. From adaptation to appropriation?: Exploring the legacy of Ruth Stiles Gannett’s novel in Masami Hata’s Elmer No Boken and Nora Twomey’s My Father’s Dragon. Transcr(é)ation, 6(1).
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Luo, Hengrui. Anime merchandising and consumption: Character perfume as a case study. The Journal of Fandom Studies, 13(2), 93-110.

• Marquet-Saget, Victor. AI in anime: Technological utopias and the Frankenstein Complex. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 12(1-3), 47-74.

• Mathew, Mala Annamma. Examining gender representations in the pilot episode of the anime Attack on Titan. Feminist Media Studies, 25(7), 1759-1765.

• McDonald, Darren. Manga and diversity management in Japan: Understanding the socio-business context for the development of a research framework. Sociological Research Journal, 6, 65-76.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• McDuffie, Kendra, & Ramos, Eduardo. Chivalric splendor and Arthurian empire in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies, 35(3), 103-127.

• Mihara, Ryotaro. Decolonising anime studies: A prolegomenon. Japan Forum, 37(1), 29-52.

• Minea, Valentina-Andrata. Where God is becoming: Anime, theosis, and the sacred in process. Religions, 16(8), article 1014.
  [Puella Magi Madoka Magica; To Your Eternity; Sunday Without God; Code Geass; The Promised Neverland]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Miyose, Colby Y. Carnivore salarymen and herbivore males: Kimi no Na wa and the shift to the omnivorous person. Popular Culture Review, 36(1), 8-16.
  [Your Name; Makoto Shinkai]

• Mori, Hiroaki. Anime tourism: A scoping literature review. Cogent Social Sciences, 11(1), article 257952.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Mori, Hiroaki. Interorganizational relations and destination marketing in anime-induced tourism: The effect of joint dependence. Tourism and Hospitality, 6(1), article 18.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Myklebost, Svenn-Arve. Teaching Shakespearean comic book adaptations. Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 118(1), 59-78.

• Nakagaki, Kotaro. Techniques and social functions of the graphic documentary style: How Japanese manga depicts health-related social issues. Graphic Medicine Review, 5(1).
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Neill Hoch, Indira. Tumblr’s combative interactions, in-action and assemblage in anime fandom posts. The Journal of Fandom Studies, 13(2), 131-148.

• Nelson, Melissa, & Watson, Bri. “Know the difference”: A comparison of community-led erotic knowledge organization. Proceedings from North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, 10, 143-152.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Nishimura, Keiko. Changing imaginations of AI/robots in Japan: Situating AI in/of Tezuka in Japanese techno-social history, 1920–2020. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 12(1-3), 23-46.

• Nobuoka, Shohei, Muramatsu, Keiji, & Fujino, Yoshihisa. Relationship between satisfaction with life and work and work functioning impairment among Japanese animators. Industrial Health, 63(3), 298-302.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Ohsawa, Yuki. The Influence of the Pacific War on 1950s Japanese manga: Perceptions of technology. The Review of Liberal Arts, Otaru University of Commerce, 149, 1-28.

• Ortabasi, Melek. Around the world in 80 years: How an Italian children’s classic went to Japan and back. The Journal of Japanese Studies, 51(2), 421-456.
  [Isao Takahata; 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother]

• Păun, Mirona, & Stănculescu, Elena. Violent content in manga/anime and adolescent aggression: A systematic review. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2025, article 4978386.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Pelissier, Clément. Shinigamis and men: Intertwining of cultural representations in the manga Death Note. Iris, 45.
  [Article in French, abstract in English]
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Quilantang, Rae Francis, Guevarra, John Russle, & Valenzuela, Jude Vincent. Breaking the walls: A psychoanalytic exploration of Attack on Titan. Journal for Cultural Research, 29(4), 767-778.

• Paun, Minona, & Stanculescu, Elena. Violent content in manga/anime and adolescent aggression: A systematic review. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2025, article 4978386.
  *** OPEN ACCESS ***

• Rattanamathuwong Bancha. We are happy here: Slice-of-life isekai and its appeals. Extrapolation, 66(2), 183-205.

• Rose, Megan Catherine, & Galbraith, Patrick W. Girl estranged: Bishōjo, the fem(me) and femininity in manga/anime art. Journal of Femininities, 2(2), 224-248.

• Rose, Megan Catherine, & Galbraith, Patrick W. Mutating hyperfemininity in bishōjo-inspired art: On Sugary Symbiote. M/C Journal, 28(2).
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• Runestad, Pamela Lynn. A “Christmas present”: Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers as Japan’s social problems all wrapped up. ASIANetwork Exchange, 29(1).
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• Sakata, Tomoki. Miyazaki’s philosophy of life behind Spirited Away: With respect to Goethe’s Bildungsroman and Nietzsche’s nihilism. New Readings, 20, 1-23.
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• Sanders, Lisa. Translating character voice: Proposing new subtitling guidelines for conveying character and culture in English subtitles for Japanese anime. Journal for Japanese Studies, 15, 51-75.
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• Sarracino, Callum Hew. Canine courtship: Zoomorphism in Japanese Boys Love Omegaverse manga. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 11(2), 147-163.

• Seager, River. Phantom rides: Trains in the work of Hideaki Anno. [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 12(1).
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• Severino, Filipe Segurado, & Silva, Francisco. Japanese pop culture events as catalysts for otaku tourism: Shaping destination choices and tourist experiences. Event Management, 29(2), 275-292.

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• Smith, Christopher. Sharks and Revolutionary Girls: The “Imperial Us” in Kaneko Mitsuharu’s “Same” and Ikuhara Kunihiko’s Shōjo kakumei Utena. The Journal of Japanese Studies, 51(1), 109-144.

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• Sugie, Noriko, et al. Are Japanese manga held in Dutch Libraries? An analysis of collection trends using library metadata. Journal of Library Metadata, 25(2), 69-97.

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• Toșu, Ioana Ruxandra. A pragma-linguistic analysis of the scholar’s language in manga Bleach. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 70(2), 241–262.
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• Toșu, Ioana Ruxandra. Decoding power and identity: A deep dive into yakuza kotoba and its linguistic secrets. Studii de Știință și Cultură, 21(2), 227-241.
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• Unser-Schutz, Giancarla. “Wha, what is this?”: Interactive elements in the representation of thoughts in Japanese manga (comics). Journal of Pragmatics, 248, 1-16.

• Van der Sluis, Hendrik. Visual narratives in higher education: A scoping review of comic, manga, graphic novels and cartoons as educational tools. Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 18(1), 86-108.
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• Vergara, Tomás. Monstrous and uncanny ecologies: The politics of anamnesis in Ergo Proxy. Configurations, 33(1), 51-77.

• Wada, Yuichi. Personality traits prediction based on eye movements while reading manga. Frontiers in Psychology, 16.
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• Warrack, Max. Manga and militarism: Rehabilitating military violence in Japan. The Pacific Review, 38(6) 1110-1138.
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• Yamagami, Naohiko, et al. The distinct internet addiction of otaku with maladaptive cognition and social support. Transcultural Psychiatry, 62(5), 652-666.

• Yamauchi, Moe. Virtualised desire: The role of cosplay and sexual selfies in Japanese otaku culture. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 21(1), 81-94.
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• Yoshimoto, Matsuhiro. A few preliminary observations on anime as a historical event. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 17(2), 99-114.
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• Yasui, Emma. Of robots and ancient mysteries: Representations of Jōmon figurines as cultural heritage and popular culture. Journal of Social Archaeology, 25(1), 48-71.
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• Zhong, Jianzhi. Exploring urban resilience through Makoto Shinkai’s ‘Disaster Trilogy’. Japanese Studies, 45(2), 189-209.
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