Catching Up on…Manga

I’ve pretty seriously neglected this blog, so I’m going to do a series of “Catching Up On…” posts to discuss and respond to some of the various media I’ve been consuming and my experiences with them. While these posts may be long depending on how many titles I’m discussing, I don’t want to spend too [...]

New Voices Conference – “It’s not funny if I have to explain it”

This Saturday I’m attending the New Voices Conference, a graduate student conference run out of the English Department at Georgia State University (where I’m currently enrolled). I was a bit surprised to not see it very advertised on campus, especially since they welcome (indeed, encourage) non-literary studies folks to attend. Perhaps I’ll recommend that they [...]

2 Small Pieces

Just a brief note today. In Media Res has two posts about anime and manga this week. The first is from me and deals with posthumanism and the mecha genre in Neon Genesis Evangelion. The second is from Casey Brienza and looks at how the size of manga tankōbon published here in the U.S. should [...]

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