At the beginning of July I was privileged to speak at a symposium on Transnational Perspectives in Anime. It was held on the Lancaster University campus, co-hosted by Dr. Zoe Crombie and Japan Foundation London; I took part from my desktop. It was a truly fascinating day, sparking new ideas and new insights about the […]
I watched a surprising and very flattering new YouTube video today. It’s constructed, probably by AI (subtitles in that not-quite-grammatical format that says hi, I’m almost human,) from Asha Bardon’s recent interview with me for CBR, and it does a competent job of briefly summarising/abstracting the interview over a backdrop of anime frame grabs. I’ve […]


