I absolutely have to watch Keizoku, both the TV series and the movie look amazing!

these random users on the web that probably never opened a book on feminist theory but still go around policing others' thoughts based on their common sense understanding of it.

anime stuff, there's Patrick Galbraith and his work on the Ethics of affect, Moe and Otaku.

Sometimes what we need is just to discover that smarter people than us have already expressed similar positions to ours better than how we could ever do. It's a way to minimize the authority we conceive to

It depends a lot on what's the real deep down reason that this bothers you so much, but one thing that I can recommend is to read theory on sex, desire and stuff like that. I don't know, something by Gayle S. Rubin on her sex-positive position in the feminist sex wars. Or if you want to read about

The worst ten feels so aggressive even though it's just a list without any comment ahaha

I've watched only Bullet Train. The tokusatsu part is spectacular, but the human drama is the usual clumsy Higuchi affair. At least it's not boring like some of his other solo stuff.

Matsumoto's influence on Yamato.

but it's also clear that they try to not put him too much at the center of the spotlight. Probably because of how the dispute with Nishizaki ultimately ended.

At the same time, everytime Anno draws the Yamato he seems to be nodding to Matsumoto's influence, so I hope that the new movie will reflect

in-depth stuff can arise. Because history is constantly in the making, a single book can't address everything.

the information I needed on the context of those two works. While doing that I really felt like something fundamental was missing in english (and italian) writings about the history of manga. Your book doesn't address everything, but it's a much needed starting point from which new and more

Another thing that I think it must taken in consideration is how much a general and updated history of mainstream manga was needed in this field. Last year, before it came out, I had to write an article on Kamen Rider and Devilman, and I had to consult a japanese book on the history of manga to find

Do you really have that many big red arrows to cover all of those works?! 😳

Even though I mostly watch japanese movies, only now I've realized how much I love watching them. I can't wait to watch something else and to keep discovering new stuff.

What was Seijun Suzuki cooking with Zigeunerweisen? I don't know, but it was strange like only Suzuki's movies can be. The ghosts of sex, death, love and betrayal forever haunting people that don't even really realize that they're being haunted.

I didn't get Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi. It was fun? I have to watch some of the original Zatoichi maybe.

(I was expecting something akin to Ishinomori's Sabu to Ichi, but I was completely off the mark).

The Birth of Kitarō is instead a movie about things that were done during and after the Pacific War. It starts like a Seishi Yokomizo's detective story about postwar Japan and unresolved trauma and then becomes a full horror movie about greed, capitalism and patriarchy.

And The Great War of Archimedes in particular is about the Battleship Yamato becoming a sacrifice to stop Japan destroying itself.

His movies aren't that great, but I can't stop watching them because I'm interested in this theme and in this self-delusion that is clearly shared not only by Yamazaki.

I found fascinating how much Takashi Yamazaki seems to be uncomfortable and at the same time obsessed with Japan's nationalist and imperialist past. He always treats it as a tragedy that happened to Japan and never as something that was done by Japan to others.