Pages on the academic study of anime and manga: the discipline's history, key scholars in Japan and abroad, and topics in the broader academic literature.
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- Anime Tourism β Anime tourism (γ’γγ‘θε°ε·‘η€Ό, anime seichi junrei, literally 'anime sacred-site pilgrimage') is the practice of visiting real-world locations depicted in ani
- Key Japanese Manga Scholars β A small number of Japanese critics and theorists have produced the bulk of the foundational manga-studies writing in Japanese. This page collects short profiles
- Manga Studies as an Academic Field β Manga studies (γγ³γ¬η η©Ά, manga kenkyΕ«) is an interdisciplinary academic field that emerged in Japan in the late 1980s and 1990s and gained an English-lang
- Manga in Japanese Education β Manga has a substantial role in Japanese formal and informal education. Both the government and private publishers produce instructional manga for school subjec
- Shunga and Manga β Shunga (ζ₯η», 'spring pictures') is a category of Japanese woodblock-print art from the Edo period (1603β1868). Its relationship to modern manga is the subject of
- The Gekiga Movement β Gekiga (εη», 'dramatic pictures') is the term coined by Yoshihiro Tatsumi in 1957 to distinguish a new style of serious adult-oriented Japanese comics from 'mang
- Western Anime Studies β English-language anime and manga studies emerged in the late 1990s and 2000s and has produced a small but consolidated set of scholarly references. This page co