Essays

Strong Female Characters: Feminism and the Ladies of Final Fantasy

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Part Five

Men, Women, and Tentacles in Japanese Animated Pornography

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Challenging Auteurship: Dōjinshi as Creative Fan Interpretation

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Short Essays

Writing “Strong” Female Characters

Maidens and Witches: Power and Purity in Magic Knight Rayearth

Rethinking Girliness: Sailor Moon and Femininity

Pokémon as Japanese Literature

Rape in Yaoi Narratives: Sexuality, Fantasy, and Subversion

Visual Essays

Anime Boobs: A Visual Essay on the Male Gaze

What Is Moe?: A Visual Essay on the Aesthetics of Erotic Fantasy

Academia

In Defense of Japanese Studies

Kazuo Ishiguro and the Problem of “Japaneseness”

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(The above art is by Cynthia Liu.)