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
Bc after this you go back to playing the new remake, and you're just smiling for half the game.
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It's mostly a place for people who are well-established in their work.

Full disclosure.

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November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It's been forever - for certain fields!

Definitely for legal research / legal informatics!
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It's definitely interesting to see that pretty much the only time this topic is mentioned in English - it is by a Japanese scholar.

doi.org/10.1080/1037...
The Relationship between Yakyū (Baseball) and Militarism: Baseball Discourse in Japanese Shōnen (Boys’) Culture
This article analyses the popular post-war boys’ baseball manga Kyojin no Hoshi, to highlight how pre-war militaristic values were carried over into post-war Japanese sports. Militarism in pre-war ...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
What's your point?
November 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I have some issues with the author's individual arguments, but I very much understand the overall concern.

Actually working on a response / reflection.
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I've never been a Discord kind of guy. There is a Facebook group and several mailing lists - I can send you the links.
October 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Only thing is, I mean, yeah, you're a damn good Japan guy, but you're just *a* Japan guy.

Could be THE Luxembourg guy!

Or I dunno, the Bulgaria guy or something!
October 2, 2025 at 9:56 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

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October 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM