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Affective Transformation: Other-power and the Community of Peers in Works by Kyoto Animation

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2022
Kyoto Animation can rightly be called one of the leading studios of Japanese animation, and its works have been at the forefront of anime production in terms of both techniques and aesthetics.
Dr. Arnab Dasgupta
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From Baker Street to Tokyo and Back: (para)textual hybridity in translation [PDF]

, 2019
This paper addresses the ‘textual web’ surrounding one individual source text, presented here as an example of what is an increasingly common occurrence: while intersemiotic translation (to use Jakobson’s term) boasts a longstanding tradition, it is only
Wardle, Mary
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Mechapocalypse: Tracing the Global Popularity of Mobile Suit Gundam

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2022
In 1988, Tomino Yoshiyuki released Char’s Counterattack, the filmic conclusion to the nine year saga he had begun with the original anime series, Mobile Suit Gundam (1979).
Anthony Dominguez
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"I Hear You Just Fine": Disability and Queer Identity in Yuki Fumino's I Hear the Sunspot

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2020
Yuki Fumino’s currently ongoing series, I Hear the Sunspot, is a manga that provides a voice for those on the “outside” of society as it examines Japanese cultural attitudes toward both disability and homosexuality.
Corinna Barrett Percy
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"Why must fireflies die so young?" The Picturesque of Caution in the Works of Studio Ghibli

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2022
As opposed to most contemporary usage of the word “picturesque” – which is generally taken to mean visually attractive in a quaint or charming way, or else something that resembles a picture – William Gilpin introduced this term to the English cultural ...
Samragngi Roy
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'In This Corner of the World' and the Challenges of Intermedial Adaptation

Series. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2019
In This Corner of the World, a Japanese television drama broadcast in summer 2018, is an adaptation of Kōno Fumiyo’s critically acclaimed manga with the same title and also its feature-length anime version directed by Katabuchi Sunao.
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
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Nation Building and the Role of Leadership: The Case Example of Tensei shitara slime datta ken

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2022
In this paper, I will deal with the isekai anime ‘Tensei shitara slime datta ken‘ (eng.: That Time I got reincarnated as a slime) and will examine its potential power and messages in a new shed light. As the main argument of this paper will deal with the
Michael Cserkits
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Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media”: Reflections on the Scholarship of a Transnational and Transmedia Industry

Arts, 2019
This article introduces the special issue dedicated to global industries around anime, its theoretical commentary and its cross-cultural consumption. The concepts “anime” and “anime studies” are evaluated critically, involving ...
Manuel Hernández-Pérez
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Heavy Hero or Digital Dummy? Multimodal Player–Avatar Relations in Final Fantasy 7 [PDF]

, 2004
This article analyses the player-avatar relation in Final Fantasy 7, drawing on multimodality theory to analyse textual structures both in the game and in the discourse of player-interviews and fan writing.
Burn, Andrew, Schott, Gareth
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JAMS@AX24 Conference Report

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
The JAMS@AX Academic Symposium, an academic conference inside of Anime Expo 2024, brought together scholars, librarians, educators, and enthusiasts from around the world to explore the academic study of anime, manga, and Japanese culture. The Journal of
Emilie Waggoner, Jaclyn Koshofer
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