Fantasies of Diversity: Representations of Race in Japanese Video Games
Part One – On Cultural Difference
Part Two – On Pokémon
Part Three – On Final Fantasy
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Strong Female Characters: Feminism and the Ladies of Final Fantasy
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
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Men, Women, and Tentacles in Japanese Animated Pornography
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Challenging Auteurship: Dōjinshi as Creative Fan Interpretation
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Short Essays
Linkle, the Female Gaze, and the Sailor Moon Paradox
Big Eyes, Magical Girls, and the American Way: The Cultural Cross-Pollination of Shōjo Manga
Is It Sexist?: A Quick Guide to a Tricky Question
Concealing and Revealing Identities: Cross-Dressing in Anime and Manga
In Defense of Fujoshi: Bara, Yaoi, and Fantasies of Queer Sexuality
Writing “Strong” Female Characters
Maidens and Witches: Purity and Power in Magic Knight Rayearth
Rethinking Girliness: Sailor Moon and Femininity
Pokémon as Japanese Literature
Rape in Yaoi Narratives: Sexuality, Fantasy, and Subversion
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Visual Essays
Manga-Inspired Comics at Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2015
Anime Boobs: A Visual Essay on the Male Gaze
What Is Moe?: A Visual Essay on the Aesthetics of Erotic Fantasy
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On Academia
Gender and the Job Market in Japanese Studies
In Defense of Japanese Studies
Kazuo Ishiguro and the Problem of “Japaneseness”
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Miscellany
Japanese Literature for the Kindle
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(The above art is by Cynthia Liu.)
