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• Book Review: Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyôshiof Edo Japan 

  Horbinski, Andrea (2020)

  Review of Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyôshi of Edo Japan (2nd ed.) by Adam L. Kern.

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• The Indigenous Shôjo: Transmedia Representations of Ainu Femininity in Japan’s Samurai Spirits, 1993–2019 

  Spiker, Christina (2020)

  Little scholarly attention has been given to the visual representations of the Ainu people in popular culture, even though media images have a significant role in forging stereotypes of indigeneity. This article investigates ...

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• Desiring Futures: Hope, Technoscience, and Utopian Dystopia in Puella Magi Madoka Magica 

  Chu, Leo (2020)

  In this paper, I analyze the animated television series Puella Magi Madoka Magica based on a variety of literary critical methods: neo-noir criticism, feminist epistemology and studies of technoscience, and discussion of ...

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• Embedded Niche Overlap: A Media Industry History of Yaoi Anime’s American Distribution from 1996 to 2009 

  Freibert, Finley (2020)

  This article offers an industrial history of yaoi anime’s distribution in the United States by companies that acquired official distribution licenses. During the course of this history, the term “yaoi” was not always ...

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• "I Hear You Just Fine": Disability and Queer Identity in Yuki Fumino's I Hear the Sunspot 

  Percy, Corinna Barrett (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. Employing ...

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