The Japanification of children's popular culture

Scarecrow Press

2008

xi, 294 p.

978-0810851214

Contents: Godzilla, the evolving monster / Dale Pike --Reptar: the rugrats meet Godzilla / Jan Susina --Invasion of the Japanese monsters: a home-front report / Mark I. West --Hello Kitty in America / Kathy Merlock Jackson --The allure of anthropomorphism in manga and Animé / Fred Patten --We all live in a Pokémon world: animated utopia for kids / Cary Eliza --Pokemon as theater: training the pocket monsters of self and consumerism / Mark Pizzato --Japanese dominance of the video-game industry and the future of interactive media / Joe Wezorek --Jet-set kids: mutation/seduction/hybridization / Derek A. Burrill --Interviews with adolescent Animé fans / Brent Allison --North America reactions to Yaoi / Antonia Levi --Paradigm lost: how the rising ubiquity of all thins Japanese ruined the national pastime for one American father / Bill Davis --Two worlds, united by Animé / Elizabeth Flynn --The cross-cultural appeal of the characters in Manga and Animé / Hiroaki Hatayama --The censorship of Japanese Anime in America: do American children need to be protected from Dragon Ball? / Rieko Okugara --Early Japanese animation in the United States: changing Tetsuwan Atomu to Astro Boy / Brian Ruh --Inu Yasha: the search for the jewel of four souls in America / Nicoloe Farrell --Folklore and gender inversion in Cardcaptor Sakura / Bill Ellis --Anima and Animé: environmental perspectives and new frontiers in Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away / Nathalie op de Beeck

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