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An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence   Flourishing far beyond its Japanese roots, cosplay has become an international phenomenon with fervid fans who gather at enormous, worldwide conventions annually. Here, author Frenchy Lunning offers an intimate, sensational tour through cosplay’s past and present, as well as its global lure.Through a culminat...

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Traces the history, forms and tendencies of fetish fashions that are popular in both mainstream and sub-cultural fashion cultures.

Contributors to volume eight of Mechademia analyze Tezuka Osamu and his complicated approaches toward life and nonlife, as well as his effect on other manga artists. Using essays and reprints of Japanese manga on Tezuka, this volume questions his influence and attitudes toward the nonhuman, the sexual politics of manga bodies, and the origins of the moe culture, among others.

As passive consumers of manga and anime become active users of cultural commodities, this volume explores the possibilities of, and challenges for, engagement

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Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.Contributors: Steven R. Anderson, Sandra Annett, Wilfrid Laurier U, Brian Bergstrom, McGill U, Susan W. Furukawa, Beloit College, Pamela Gossin, U of Texas–Dallas, Forrest Greenwood, Indiana U, Bloomington, Brett Hack, Aichi Prefectural U, Moto Hagio, Kendall Heitzman, U of Iowa, Andrea Horbinski, U of California, Berkeley, Sabu Kohso, Akira Mizuta Lippit...

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Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

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This inaugural volume on anime and manga engages the rise of Japanese popular culture through game design, fashion, graphic design, commercial packaging, character creation, and fan culture. Promoting dynamic ways of thinking, along with a wealth of images, this cutting-edge work opens new doors between academia and fandom.

The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country's militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy pacifism imposed by the victors. Delving into topics ranging from the production of wartime propaganda to the multimedia adaptations of romance narrative, contributors to the fourth volume in the "Mec...

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From fan-subs to cosplay, exploring the fan cultures inspired by anime and manga.