I’m delighted that the proceedings of the Lancaster symposium on transnational anime are now published as an issue of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS), free to read here.
There really is something for everyone here, from papers on the nitty-gritty of motion in anime and music in anime to the rise of Black anime in and beyond Africa, censorship of Indian broadcasts, anime in Europe, anime in China, even managing staff in virtual work environments. The voices of exciting scholars in anime come through clearly here; the bibliographies of their papers are gifts to everyone engaged in or interested in studying anime.
Many thanks are due to Dr. Zoe Crombie of Lancaster University, the University’s Research Culture Fund and the Japan Foundation London, who masterminded and sponsored the symposium, to Billy Tringali of JAMS for his participation and tireless support in ensuring the proceedings were published, and to the University of Illinois for making this, and all issues of JAMS, free to access.
The image from JAMS vol. 6 issue 1 shows the opening screen of a post-symposium talk by Dr. Rayna Denison and Dr. Zoe Crombie on the Studio Ghibli AI controversy, now available on YouTube.