Tatsumi Yoshihiro. A Drifting Life. Ed. Adrian Tomine. Trans. Taro Nettleton. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2009. Tatsumi Yoshihiro. Gekiga hōryū. 2 Volumes. Tokyo: Seirinkōgeisha, 2008. Ryan Holmberg Since A Drifting Life has been out now for over two years in North America, over a year in France, over two in Spain, and over three in […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Hosoda Mamoru, director. Samaa uōzu, 2009. Translated as Summer Wars, subtitled DVD. NTV/Funimation, 2011. Real World, Virtual World: One World is Enough for All of Us Jonathan E. Abel Summer Wars is like that pop song you can’t shake from your system. At first it is subtle, even a bit annoying, like every other […]
Marc Steinberg. Review of Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals. By Azuma Hiroki. Azuma, Hiroki. Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals. Translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Japanese Postmodernity Reconsidered Marc Steinberg Is it possible to say anything truly new about the postmodern? Is it possible to make […]