Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.6
billion a year, linked to everything from manga to computer games, Pokémon and plushies …

Animation-Process, Cognition and Actuality presents a uniquely philosophical and multi-
disciplinary approach to the scholarly study of animation, by using the principles of process …

Japan's first weekly, 30-minute animated TV series, Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), is not only
commonly regarded as the first instance of what is now known asanime'; it is also regarded …

Zaps, crashes, boinks, and bangs flooded TV's airwaves with the rise of Hanna-Barbera
Productions at the end of the 1950s, and these sound effects have been heard ever since …

This article investigates Oshii Mamoru's experiments with voice and vision in his film Ghost
in the Shell (1995). The audio-visual inversion articulated by the disembodied voice in the …

The current article offers an exploration of the incipient development of crowdfunding anime
projects for short and medium-length films. Japanese commercial animation is characterized …

The crossmedia narrative in the Japanese cultural industry is a phenomenon that adapts the
same story through different formats, such as comics, animation films and series orvideo …

Cosplay—costume role-play—has dramatically increased in popularity over the past 20
years in conjunction with the cultural institution of anime, comic book, manga, science fiction …

The present paper aims to explore the phenomenon of the diffusion of anime through
worldwide communication (eg, internet) and its relation to the increase in the number of …

Abstract Seeing Henry Jenkins's digital-age concept of transmedia convergence as the late-
capitalist assembly of 1960s psychedelic intermedia practices, this article adds to a …