In a new paper just published in Theory, Culture & Society, Sharon Kinsella makes the point that “Japan and neighbouring Asian states are now conjoined in a transregional visual cultural symbolic language, with relatable though not identical cultural symbolic meanings, based around animation characters and computer games” I would argue that over the last two […] The post Call for Papers – Mechademia 2026 Conference: “Traversing Trans-Asian Imaginaries: Anime, Manga, and Media Cultur...| Anime and Manga Studies
English-language scholarly writing on Japanese comics is not something that just started last year – or five years ago – or ten. Fred Schodt’s Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga, the first book on the topic from a U.S. publisher, appeared in 1996 – and more than a decade earlier, he had already written Manga! […] The post Call for Papers – Mechademia: Second Arc, 19.2 “Graphic Narratives” appeared first on Anime and Manga Studies. The post Call for Papers – Mechademia...| Anime and Manga Studies
With the release of the new Summer 2025 Methodologies issue, Mechademia: Second Arc, the major “forum for studying objects and practices that have developed around media forms associated with Japan” is now approaching its twentieth anniversary (although publication was paused in 2016 and 2017). The twenty-three issues that have appeared since the journal first launched, […] The post Call for Papers – Mechademia: Second Arc, 19.1 “Semiosis/Symbiosis” appeared first on Anime and Man...| Anime and Manga Studies