Did you say “Krazy”?

And one more! Yes, one more book on animation and comics, including animes and mangas to add to your piling up reading list. These last two or three years, we have witnessed a flurry of works from a variety of disciplines on visual popular culture, especially on mangas and animes. This was somewhat long overdue [...]

First fieldwork, first mission

The general fun of fieldwork:
Alright, here is the first part of the account from my week-end at JapAniManga Night. I’m sorry, I can’t put it all in one post, so I hope you’ll be able to keep up with me as I organize my thoughts and notes. The first part is more a general assessment [...]

Anime copyrights

Internet piracy certainly is the 21st century plague, at least for the media Industry. Despites the Music majors’ victories over such peers-to-peers systems as Napster, they aren’t yet out of the wood. Indeed, such community-based free platforms as YouTube have now taken the relay and offer a new haven for the zillions adepts of [...]

Anime at Uncyclopedia

Coming from one of the forum threads of Yume, I just landed on this absolutely hilarious article about animes at Uncyclopedia. I definitely recommend it if you need to take a bit of distance with your favorite “hobby” (hum, hum…)! Enjoy!

Japanese entertainment thunderbolt

The trumpets can start ringing, a new born has joined the increasingly fast-growing body of scholarly works focusing on the spread of Japanese entertainment and its success around the world!
In the wake of the many Manga Network projects, several publications are on the line and Marco Pellitteri’s book entitled “Il drago e la Saetta. Modelli, [...]