Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies – 2026

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

[updated: January 23, 2026]

— MONOGRAPHS — ESSAY COLLECTIONS — BOOK CHAPTERS
— ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES — JOURNAL ARTICLES

MONOGRAPHS

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  Martin, Daniel. BFI Film Classics: Kiki’s Delivery Service. London: Bloomsbury (forthcoming).

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  McCarthy, Helen. The Manga Bible: The Definitive Guide to Contemporary and Historical Manga. London, UK: Ilex Press (forthcoming).

ESSAY COLLECTIONS

• Giannoulis, Elena. (ed.). The Future of Humans and Emotional Machines: Narratives from Japanese Culture in the 21st Century. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
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  Mizushima, Shintaro, & Ashbaugh, William B. Exploring Isekai: Mapping Worlds through Anime, Manga, and Light Novels. New York: Bloomsbury Academic (forthcoming).

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Bärtschi, Arnold. “What if …?” Counterfactual history in Kaiji Kawaguchi’s Zipang.
  In Stephen Connor & Harriet E.H. Earle (eds.). Battle Lines Drawn: War Comics Since 1914 (pp. 169-191). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Chu, Leo. The tokusatsu heroes and magical girls of Senki Zesshō Symphogear.
  In Lorna Piatti-Farnell & Carl Wilson (eds). The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies (pp. 286-294). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Cheung, Chun-Sing. Feline embodiment and human–animal relations in A Whisker Away.
  In Sophia Staite (ed.). Transformation and Metamorphosis in Popular Culture (pp. 63-72). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Classon Frangos, Mike. Swedish feminist manga, Boys Love, and comics education.
  In Robert Aman & Lars Wallner (eds.). Comics and Norm-Critical Pedagogy: Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity (pp. 70-81). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Deng, MaoHui. Ageing, animation, and the temporalities of the body.
  In Louis Bayman & Davina Quinlivan (eds.). Radical Embodiment on Film: Time and the Cinematic Body (pp. 177-192). New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
  [Satoshi Kon; Millennium Actress]

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  Ellis, Bill. Manga and anime.
  In Claudia Schwabe & Christa Jones (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales (pp. 322-334). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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  Hernandez Hernandez, Alvaro David. Hybrid origins of Japanese animation and manga.
  In Oliver White, Mai Kataoka, & Timon Screech (eds.). Global Japanese History and Culture: De-Isolating Japan from Past to Present. Abingdon, UK: Routledge (pp. 237-241).
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  Ilardi, Emeliano. Manga and anime: Japanese seriality conquering the world.
  In Giovanni Ragone & Antonio Rafele (eds.). Serial Fiction in the Western World: History and Theory (pp. 180-190). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Jiang, Haoran. Hearing transformation: How music defines Digimon’s Digivolution.
  In Sophia Staite (ed.). Transformation and Metamorphosis in Popular Culture (pp. 123-133). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Kawashima, Nobuko. Soft power, nation branding and public diplomacy: Film policy in international relations.
  In Ruby Cheung, et al. (eds.). Global Film Policies (pp. 254-271). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Kennedy, Ruairi. Poison as allegorical to loss and grief in Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece.
  In Lorna Piatti-Farnell (ed.). Poison and the Popular Imagination: Representations, Iconographies, and Meanings in Media and Culture (pp. 207-226). New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

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  Lim, Cheng Tju. The consumption of manga and anime in Singapore.
  In Lonny E. Carlile, L. Ayu Saraswati, & Leng Leng Thang (eds.). The Contours of Endearment: Exploring New Dimensions in Southeast Asia–Japan Relations (pp. 177-191). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.

• Namba, Yuuki. Pornography as metamorphosis: The problematics of the kairaku-ochi scenes in Japanese ero-manga and Shindō Eru’s subversion in Henshin.
  In Sophia Staite (ed.). Transformation and Metamorphosis in Popular Culture (pp. 181-194). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Nazzicone, Joelle. Sounding out synchrony: Early experiments with manga eiga and sound.
  In Sean O’Reilly (ed.). The Advent of Sound in Japanese Cinema: A Handbook (pp. 96-109). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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  Okuyama, Yoshiko. Japanese religions in film.
  In John C. Leyden (ed.). The Routledge Companion to Religions and Film, Second Edition (pp. 287-306). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  [Demon Slayer: Mugen Train; Your Name; Spirited Away; Makoto Shinkai; Hayao Miyazaki]

• Rajam, Esther Susannah. Spirality motif: The geophilosophy of the sea in Children of the Sea.
  In Sreedevi Santosh, et al. (eds.). Asia’s Maritime History and Identity at Cultural Crossroads (pp. 42-46). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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  Rastati, Ranny. Islam, dawah, and the localization of Japanese cosplay and manga in Indonesia.
  In Lonny E. Carlile, L. Ayu Saraswati, & Leng Leng Thang (eds.). The Contours of Endearment: Exploring New Dimensions in Southeast Asia–Japan Relations (pp. 192-206). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.

• Rose, Megan Catherine, & Galbraith, Patrick W. Wings of courage: Magical boys, metamorphosis and social transformation in Toei Animation’s Pretty Cure Series.
  In Sophia Staite (ed.). Transformation and Metamorphosis in Popular Culture (pp. 108-120). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Rust, Estelle. Sword spirits and sword transformations: Encountering object-beings beyond anthropomorphism.
  In Sophia Staite (ed.). Transformation and Metamorphosis in Popular Culture (pp. 73-84). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  [Touken Ranbu]

• Saeedi, Ali. Exploring anime translation practices and reception in the Arab world: A comparative analysis of official dubbing and fan subtitling of Detective Conan.
  In Eleonora Sasso (ed.). Minority Languages and Cultures in Audiovisual Translation (pp. 141-158). New York: Routledge.

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  Shamoon, Deborah. On manga style and Singapore comics: Considering the art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew.
  In Lonny E. Carlile, L. Ayu Saraswati, & Leng Leng Thang (eds.). The Contours of Endearment: Exploring New Dimensions in Southeast Asia–Japan Relations (pp. 192-206). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.

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  Thang, Leng Leng, et al. When Japanese culture meets local notions of Asian culture: Cosplay in Singapore.
  In Lonny E. Carlile, L. Ayu Saraswati, & Leng Leng Thang (eds.). The Contours of Endearment: Exploring New Dimensions in Southeast Asia–Japan Relations (pp. 207-222). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.

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  Thouny, Christophe. Fermentation, hospitality, and planetary dwelling in contemporary Japanese comics.
  In Oliver White, Mai Kataoka, & Timon Screech (eds.). Global Japanese History and Culture: De-Isolating Japan from Past to Present. Abingdon, UK: Routledge (pp. 237-241).
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• Yuki, Masami. Kinship in the technosphere: From Ishimure Michiko’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow to Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
  In Casper Bruun Jensen (ed.). Southern Anthropocenes (pp. 152-160). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

Simon Bacon (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmilland

• Hogan, Kourtnea, & Lord, Kristin. Zombies in anime: The body as a tool (pp. 927-939).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Azlan, Nur Saqifah Aisyah. From monologues to multimodal perspectivization: Strategies for affective commercialization via Boys Love (BL) manga covers. Social Semiotics (forthcoming).

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  Azlan, Nur Saqifah Aisyah. Repetition, script play, and dual meanings: Titles as information and aesthetic on Boys Love (BL) manga covers. Japanese Studies (forthcoming).

• Bhosle, Madhuri. Influence of anime on character design: A study of Indian animation students. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education (forthcoming).

• Chan Suet Kay, Rachel. The re-structure of iki: Japanese aesthetic habitus in Sherlockian Japanese manga. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (forthcoming).
  [Moriarty the Patriot]

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  Cheung, Sing. Transformed bodies: Transgender superheroines in young adult fiction. Children’s Literature in Education (forthcoming).
  [Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!!]

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  Cooray, Manique A.E., et al. A comparative legal analysis of virtual child imagery in anime and manga: balancing legality and creativity. International Journal of Cultural Policy (forthcoming).
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  Córdoba-Arroyo, Esteban. Shifting memories in vignettes: Depictions of World War II in gakushū manga and their impact on Japanese nationalism and pacifism. Memory, Mind & Media, 5, article e1.
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  Cui, Jiayui. Anime, apps, and hormones: Transgender adolescents navigating identity in contemporary China. Youth & Society (forthcoming).

• Debnath, Kunal, & Kumar, Nagendra. From Kundalini to Lord Shiva: exploring “show” and intertextuality in Kentaro Miura’s Berserk. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (forthcoming).

• Edwards, Quinn. Digital monsters: Reconciling AI narratives as investigations of legal personhood for artificial intelligence. Law, Technology and Humans (forthcoming)
  [Digimon Adventure]
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• Green, Ronald S. Beyond the battle: Historical, religio-philosophical, and literary depths of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 43(1), 1-26.
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• Greenbaum, Roy. From Frankenstein to Astro Boy: A research agenda for understanding cultural narratives, media representation, and the ethics of neurotechnology governance. AJOB Neuroscience (forthcoming).

• Hajek, Andre, & König, Hans-Helmut. Interest in anime and manga: Relationship with (mental) health, social disconnectedness, social joy and subjective well-being. Journal of Public Health (forthcoming).
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• Hayvon, John C. Self-accessing popular media for suicide-intervention: Exploring youth-led public discourse. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health (forthcoming).

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  Hoshino, Junichi. Fictional prototypes of AI-human coexistence and relationality. AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication (forthcoming).
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• Kinsella, Sharon. Male subcultures in Japan: Generating sexual capital and gender-class mobility in a low birth society. Theory, Culture & Society (forthcoming).

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  Chayanon Krongbooncho, Smith Boonchutima, & Ibtesam Mazahir. From stigma to mainstream: A multi-stakeholder thematic analysis of anime consumption and community-driven communication in Thai Generation Z. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 13(1), article 2647143.
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• Lee, Yen-Han, et al. Substance use depictions in top-selling shōnen and seinen manga. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse (forthcoming).

• Leshner, Connor, et al. You would not download a soulmate: Attributes of fictional characters that inspire intimate connection. Psychology of Popular Media, 15(1), 51-61.

• Li, Xueyi. Cantonese translations of Doraemon in Hong Kong: Domestication between vegetal, animal, and human agencies. Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly (forthcoming).

• Li, Zixuan. Reframing human – AI relations in Japanese robot anime: A sociopolitical and thematic analysis. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (forthcoming).

• Liu, Moqiao. Beyond escapism: The positive role of cosplay in gender expression, mental health, and cultural consumption in Japan. Social Sciences, 15(1), article 10.
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• Matsuda, Yuki. Modulating empathy: The visual design of the reader-character relations in Piano no Mori. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (forthcoming).
  [Forest of Piano; Makoto Isshiki]

• Matthewson, Amy. Unbeaten Tracks: Isabella Bird in Wonderland translation, transculturation, transcreation. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (forthcoming).
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• Mitsuhashi, Yuta, & Yamaguchi, Yasumasa. Japanese adaptation of the Anime Tourism Motivation Scales. Current Issues in Tourism (forthcoming).

• Morningstar, Ashley. Action and fighting girls: the ethnographic interplay of Naoko Takeuchi’s feminism. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (forthcoming).
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• Muguruza, Benat, & Bereziartua, Garbine. Dragon Ball on the Basque public TV: Influence on viewers’ language attitudes and practices. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (forthcoming).

• Nakamura, Moeka, & Kakutani, Yuya. The protagonist’s table: Food in Japanese sports anime. Nutrition and Health (forthcoming).

• Nopas, Dechsiri, & Ueangchokchai, Choosak. From blade to belief: Moral learning through Demon Slayer among ASEAN youth. Qualitative Research (forthcoming).

• Petit, Aurélie. The hentai streaming platform wars. Porn Studies (forthcoming).

• Petit, Aurélie. The limits of ‘zero tolerance’ policies for animated pornographic media. Porn Studies (forthcoming).

• Pimienta, Julian. Validation of the Manga Attachment Scale (MAS) for measuring attachment to manga – Japanese comics. Journal of Media Psychology (forthcoming).

• Rigter, Fifianne H. W., et al. Frames of ethics: A systematic scoping review of graphic novels in ethics education. International Journal of Ethics Education (forthcoming).
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• Shu, Jing. Digital memory practices of anime nostalgic fan communities: From the perspective of mediated memory. International Communication of Chinese Culture (forthcoming).

• S. M. Athira, & Singh, Rajni. Inventing yōkai: Deconstructing the quintessential Japanese woman through Junji Ito’s Tomie. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (forthcoming).

• Sosa, Juan, Urrego-Lopez, Alejandro, & Prieto, Cesar. Analysis of bipartite networks in anime series: Textual analysis, topic clustering, and modeling. Communications in Statistics: Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications (forthcoming).

• Standiford, Bridger J., & Hsu, Kevin J. Autistic traits, alexithymia, and emotion recognition of human and anime faces. Development and Psychopathology, 38(1), 33-46.
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• Tan, Huifang, & Li, Nawen. Social and cultural influence of ethnic minority animated short films on youth. Race and Social Problems, 18(1), article 20.

• Wang, Zituo, & Huang, Haoyu. When transcultural fandom meets nationalism: Chinese cosplayers’ identity negotiation between global flows and local places. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 29(2), 270-290.

• Yoneyama, Shoko, Szorenyi, Anna, & Nursey-Bray, Melissa. Animism meets posthumanism: reimagining the human-nature relationship through shrine gates (torii) in the works of Miyazaki Hayao and Shinkai Makoto. Japan Forum (forthcoming).
  [My Neighbor Totoro; Spirited Away; Your Name; Weathering With You; Studio Ghibli]
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• Zakreski, Ellen, et al. Subjective responses of gynephilic men and women to real versus artificial female nudes. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 55(1), 329-343.
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• Zhang, Kelvin, Tan, Chao, & Zhao, Yuexi. Playing cosplay seriously: Exploring cosplay as a form of serious leisure. Leisure Studies (forthcoming).

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  Zhou, Yusong, & Wang, Yuanyuan. Multi-source data fusion for anime pilgrimage recommendation: Integrating accessibility, seasonality, and popularity. Electronics, 15(2), article 419.
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• Zhu, Mila. Great Teacher Onizuka and Heaven Official’s Blessing: Counter-narratives of education and power in popular culture. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 48(1), 48-58.