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Tierney, Robert Pahre, Julian Gabriel 2017-09-29T17:52:36Z 2017-09-29T17:52:36Z 2019-09-30T09:15:17Z 2017-07-21 2017-08 With interest in genres like BL (Boys’ Love) and the presence of LGBT characters in popular series continuing to soar to new heights in Japan and abroad, the question of the presence, or lack thereof, of queer narratives in these texts and their responses has remained potent in studies on contemporary Japanese visual culture. In hopes of addressing this issue, my thesis queries these queer narratives in popular Japanese culture through examining works which, although lying distinctly outside of the genre of BL, nonetheless exhibit queer themes. Through examining a pair of popular series which have received numerous adaptations, One Punch Man and No. 6, I examine the works both in terms of their content, place and response in order to provide a larger portrait or mapping of their queer potentiality. I argue that the out of time and out of place-ness present in these texts, both of which have post-apocalyptic settings, acts as a vehicle for queer narratives in Japanese popular culture. Additionally, I argue that queerness present in fanworks similarly benefits from this out of place and time-ness, both within the work as post-apocalyptic and outside of it as having multiple adaptations or canons. I conclude by offering a cautious tethering towards the future potentiality for queer works in Japanese popular culture by examining recent trends among queer anime and manga towards moving towards an international stage. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01 The student, Julian Pahre, accepted the attached license on 2017-07-21 at 15:11. The student, Julian Pahre, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-07-21 at 15:16. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-07-21 at 16:28. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11581 on 2017-09-29 at 11:20:20 Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T17:52:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 PAHRE-THESIS-2017.pdf: 2272261 bytes, checksum: 14c281e6395d6f3e1acf893e3a7cdf81 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4209 bytes, checksum: 5f3b5a073a225830f99142f497a111e5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-21 Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 103527 Lift date: 2019-09-29T17:52:45Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 103527 on 2019-09-30T09:15:17Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/98319 en Copyright 2017 Julian Pahre Japan Queer Anime Manga Visual arts No time and no place in Japan’s queer popular culture text text E. Asian Languages & Cultures East Asian Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A.