The Science of Anime: Mecha-Noids and AI-Super-Bots – Review
Anime, the name given to Japanese superhero animation, has swept the United States. More than two-dozen Japanese cartoon series already appear on U.S. television, with more on the way. And with the...
View ArticleRobot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction From Origins to Anime...
Consisting of a collection of essays based around Japanese science fiction, Robot Ghost and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime explores the influential and visual impact that...
View ArticleNinja Attack! True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws – Review
Ninja. The word is loaded with connotations, most rooted in fantastic flights of pop culture. But the truth behind these shadowy assassins is more mind-blowing that any manga, more astounding than any...
View ArticleMonkey Business: New Writing from Japan – Review
Monkey Business: New Voices from Japan is the first annual English-language edition of the acclaimed literary magazine. Edited by Motoyuki Shibata (curator, along with Roland Kelts) and Ted Goossen. As...
View ArticleJapanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool – Review
She’s part samurai, part geisha, and is taking on the world. Whether it’s in anime and manga like Sailor Moon and Neon Genesis Evangelion or in videogames like Street Fighter, the Japanese schoolgirl...
View ArticleJapanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded The U.S. – Review
Ronald Kelts is a fiction and nonfiction writer, an editor of the literary journal A Public Space, and a lecturer at the University of Tokyo. His 2007 book Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has...
View ArticleDragon Ball Z “It’s Over 9,000!” When Worldviews Collide – Review
Dragon Ball Z “It’s Over 9,000!” When Worldviews Collide forever changes how Dragon Ball fans view their favorite series. “It’s Over 9,000!” reveals the inner psychology and colliding worldviews of...
View ArticleAnime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese...
A professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin, Susan J. Napier is heralded as one of the top Japanese animation scholars in America. Her 2001 book entitled Anime...
View ArticleAnime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know – Review
Anime is Japanese animation…an avant-garde artistic medium and a pop culture phenomenon, with hundreds of millions of fans and just as many opinions on what it’s all about. If you’re new to Japanese...
View ArticleAttack on Titan: Kuklo Unbound – Review
Opening to the agonizingly disturbing and descriptive scene involving the discovery of the novel’s titular character, Attack on Titan: Kuklo Unbound is a combination of the second and third volumes in...
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