Mikhail Koulikov
animemangastudies.com
Mikhail Koulikov
@animemangastudies.com
Promoting and facilitating academic approaches to Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga).

News, announcements, links, commentary, questions, thoughts.

www.animemangastudies.com
- featuring the Anime and Manga Studies Database
The 30 anniversary was a couple of days ago.

Still.

When I watched the first episode off the probably hecto fansub, nobody could imagine this is where we would end up.
October 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I've reposted this a bunch of times, but for a hell of a look at Gen from *way back when*.

Gen Fukunaga - Fort Worth Business Press, April 2000

web.archive.org/web/20220121...
October 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The Bloomsbury online access site doesn't have the full titles of the individual chapters.

See here instead.

And, pick your favorite.

"Demonic Compassion: The Suffering of Innocents in Puella Magi Madoka Magica" is pretty hard to top!

www.bloomsbury.com/us/anime-rel...
September 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Cute anime girls gacha game says it like it is!
September 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hey, right out, @limitedrungames.com had September 19-30 as the estimated shipping date.

So, you know, I shouldn't even get too riled up to begin with!

#trailsinthesky1st SteelBook - still not there, but, getting closer?
September 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Also book covers that turn out to not quite mean what they say.

www.routledge.com/Victorians-a...
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Take the tram! Just for the hell of it!!!
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
NGE gave us many things.

Like.
September 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
When you didn't have a book on Sailor Moon - you got together with your buddies and wrote and self-published one.

From 2005.
September 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Since the actual game is still delayed because of the @limitedrungames.com failure, just finding comfort where I can.

We have Trails at home.

#trailsinthesky1st
September 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Наша Москва прошлого.

#москва
September 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I have Gunbuster at home!
September 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The main reason to watch anime!
September 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thank you, anime.

My True Self / My Two Moods.
September 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Из нашего прошлого.
September 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Since we're coming into just a month before 30 years since ... the first episode of that show aired for the first time.

Amazing that this book is here for the world to read - in #openaccess

396 pages!

12 chapters!

doi.org/10.16993/bbp
September 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I include this in my presentations - and I really think just HAVING something like this is f-ing awesome!
September 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Now we're f-ing talking!

In the new issue of the journal Carte Semiotiche.

"I propose that freedom in One Piece is the condition for and the result of (re)creating one’s own 伝説 (legend), i.e. an enacted story, which makes action a semiopraxis."

#openaccess

www.lacasausher.it/wp-content/u...
September 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Maybe should actually open at some point?

Nah, who knows what might happen *if* I open!
September 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I literally have BOXES and BOXES and BOXES sitting around - many that I get purely for the designs.

Though, also...
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Full figures for this year are not available yet - but - for scale, and because the numbers are relatively easy to get.

Last year's Top 10 events at the DC Convention Center
September 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
For scale, and b/c the numbers are easy to get - this is last year's top 10 at the DC convention center.
September 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🚩 «Запрещать — запрещено»: в Воронеже прошёл митинг против блокировок звонков WhatsApp и Telegram

t.me/communistvrn...
September 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Life accomplishments.
September 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Just b/c I can....so, one hand, looks like Neon Genesis Evangelion has been mentioned like 50 times in U.S. court cases in the last 5 years.

On the other *all 50* are in trademark infringement complaints that Khara has filed.
August 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM