Revisiting Japan’s Gross National Cool: Exporting Japanese Animation in the International Marketplace [PDF]
In 2002, writer Douglas McCray coined the term “Japan’s Gross National Cool,” which was used to describe Japan’s distinct cultural exports. More specifically, though a recent phenomenon, the current academic consensus indicates that Japanese animation ...
Wentz, Joseph P
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Learners’ strategies for transliterating English loanwords into Katakana [PDF]
Post-World War II, the Japanese language has experienced massive infl uxes of foreign words and expressions into its lexicon, known as “loanwords” or borrowings.
Lovely, Esther
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Gender, Sexuality, and Cosplay: A Case Study of Male-to-Female Crossplay [PDF]
In recent years, cosplay fans gathering at anime conventions and events all over North America have attracted much public attention and media coverage.
Leng, Rachel Hui Ying
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A survey of comics research in computer science
Graphical novels such as comics and mangas are well known all over the world. The digital transition started to change the way people are reading comics, more and more on smartphones and tablets and less and less on paper.
Augereau, Olivier +2 more
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Managing Anime Employees in the Virtual Office: A Case Study of hololive
Virtual YouTubers (or VTubers) are online personas of transnational fame who perform on digital streaming platforms using animated, motion-tracking avatars which are usually drawn in an anime style.
Dorothy Finan
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Eureka Discovers Culture Girls, Fujoshi, and BL: Essay Review of Three Issues of the Japanese Literary Magazine, Yuriika (Eureka) [PDF]
Eureka (or Yuriika) is a mainstream Japanese literary magazine specialising in poetry and criticism. Established by Date Tokuo (1920–61) in 1956, the magazine has played a very important role for decades, introducing cutting edge Western art and literary
Aoyama, Tomoko
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Motion in Spatial Frames: Exploring the Elements of Animation Action
The distinctive style with which Japanese animation is rendered is what its audience have come to expect of anime, in terms of look, quality and content.
Simone Shu-Yeng Chung
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Transgenerationality Impacting Transnationality: Intersectional Possibilities in Anime
The idea of transnationality is still making waves in anime studies, as fans and scholars track the new Japanese-influenced animation coming from all over the world and ask how definitions of anime beyond Japan can best accommodate and describe this ...
Helen McCarthy
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Hybridization between Media Education and Visual Arts Education. Miyazaki's Cinema as a Revulsive [PDF]
In this article we suggest an approximation between media education and visual arts education. Teachers of Primary School interpret the media as a visual artefacts. But this visual artifacts can be analyzed from the education in visual arts. We can offer
Huerta, Ricard
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This study examines the shifting meaning of subjectivity and the blurred boundaries between humans and nonhumans. Additionally, it explores the impact of technology intervention on gender, drawing from the principles of posthumanism philosophy.
Aqiilah Bilqiis Salsabiil Harahap +2 more
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