Tag: manga
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11. Anime and/or Manga – Manga as Pop Culture Subtext
In looking back through my notes for today’s post, I clearly intended for today’s “lesson” to be more or less a take down of Thomas LaMarre’s The Anime Machine. The book frustrates me in numerous ways very much analogous to my frustration with Susan Napier from last week: though a variety of philosophers are invoked (in…
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10c. “Subjectivity” and Ghost in the [Shell]
If I were being honest with myself about my academic career, taking to heart the numerous times I have been criticized for being unresponsive to the work of other scholars, it would have to be characterized as a long history of resenting how the people who dominate (and thus control access to) the scholarly fields…
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10b. Invested in [Mecha] Manga – Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
EDIT: I apologize for the delay, but as I was writing this yesterday, my daughter decided to somersault out of her bedroom window, so her mother and I spent most of the day in the emergency room. She (and we) are more or less fine, but it has resulted in a bit of a delay.…
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9b. An Insider’s Perspective on Manga Translation
This week’s post is comes by way of Andria Cheng, professional translator and all around awesome human being: I’ve been a freelance translator for six years, and people always want to know how I got started in the industry. After I graduated with my degree in Japanese in 2005, I sent my resume to all…
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9a. Copyright, Scanlation, and the Ethics of Unfettered Reading
Normally on the WIM blog, I prefer to interlard my political opinions with fine shavings of self-deprecating wit and snark, so that a casual reader might simply regard me as, if a clown with ideas, ultimately just a clown. But today, I have brought along my imaginary soapbox, so that I can tackle what I…
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8a. Stan Sakai and/or Sakai Masahiko – The Curious Case of Usagi Yōjimbō
One of my clearest, and most gut-wrenching, memories is of Stan Sakai, Eisner award winning comic artist and creator of Usagi Yōjimbō, sitting alone in the dealers’ room at AnimeIowa as his gaze meandered about expectantly. This is not to say that the room was empty–in fact, it was full of eager anime/manga fans mucking about…
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6. A Game of Manga[s]
I thought this week I might deviate somewhat from my typical “everyone else is wrong, here is why I am so great” pomposity and focus on a print format that may at first appear to be only tangentially related to manga but in fact shows a great deal about the relative murkiness of distinctions between…
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2b. Teaching Manga – Instruction and the “Manga Style”
There is [No] Manga Style (only Zuul) When confronting the problem of manga style–and it is a problem, dear reader–it is quite easy to be led astray by the champions of manga in the English-speaking world and their passionate and earnest reassurances that there is no unified “manga style,” that manga can be anything you…