The Origins of Mecha: The Super Robots of the 1970s
The 1970s were a fruitful period for popular media in Japan. Weekly Shōnen Jump debuted in 1969,...
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Category: History
The Face of War: Finding Anime’s Roots In World War II
Header Image: Momotaro no Umiwashi In the modern world, anime is a medium that ignites the...
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That 2007 Feeling: A Chronicle of the Western Anime Bubble, Chapter 1
This is the first chapter of an ongoing work, which will chronicle the growth and sudden crash of...
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When Stars Align: A History of Queer Anime
In the eighth episode of 2019’s Stars Align, Maki and Yuu — a star player and manager of a soft...
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A Brief History of Denmark’s Manga Industry
In English-speaking countries, it’s become almost a given to see manga on store shelves next to...
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Origin Story: My Weekend as Sailor Mars
Hi, I’m L.B. and I have a not-so-secret confession to make. I enjoy crossplaying at anime...
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Trains, Horror, and Video Tape: An Anime Origin Story
The story of how I became an anime fan isn’t all that unusual from other folks my age, who grew up...
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Endless Eight – Ten Years On: An Anime Origin Story
If you were to ask most fans, myself included, about when they first got into anime, you’d likely...
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Anime Versus Rural Australia: A Retrospective
The phrase “Wagga Wagga” is the Japanese equivalent of a “Ka-Pow” or a “Ka-Spla-a-t”. It’s an...
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Family Ties With Locke The Superman: An Anime Origin Story
In the modern era it’s easy to think that anime has always just “been around.” Digital streams are...
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Forward to the Past: An Anime Origin Story
Before I begin, I promise that these won’t all be self-serving, gloat-y things where I talk about...
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Anime Made Me Gay: Let’s Go With Hot Blooded Yaoi!
I can say, without a doubt, that anime has had a huge influence on my life. I first discovered the...
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