The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime

Jaqueline Berndt is Professor in Japanese culture at Stockholm University. She previously taught Comics Theory at Kyoto Seika University, Japan. Her main academic work is in manga studies and anime research, approached from the perspective of media aesthetics. She has also directed exhibitions on manga in art-historical contexts.

Introduction: two media forms in correlation Jaqueline Berndt; Part I. Claimed Origins and Overlooked Traditions: 1. Premodern roots of story-manga? Jaqueline Berndt; 2. Newspaper comic strips: laughs in four panels Ronald Stewart; 3. Astro Boy and the 'weaponized' children of wartime Japan Joon Yang Kim; Part II. Drawing and Movement: 4. Graphic style in anime and manga Olga Kopylova; 5. Motion and emotion in anime Sheuo Hui Gan; Part III. Sound: 6. Hearing manga Blanche Delaborde; 7. Voice acting for anime Minori Ishida; Part IV. Narrative: 8. Reading story-manga Kōichi Morimoto; 9. Incalculable: anime narratives and 3D CG aesthetics Selen Çalık Bedir; Part V. Characters: 10. Characters in the media mix: beyond narratives Lukas R. A. Wilde; 11. Character acting in anime Stevie Suan; Part VI. Genres: 12. Manga genres: demographics and themes Deborah Shamoon; 13. Genre networks and anime studios Bryan Hikari Hartzheim; Part VII. Forms of Production: 14. Manga editors and their artists Bon Won Koo; 15. Anime production, decentralized Renato Rivera Rusca; Part VIII. Forms of Distribution: 16. Manga media from analog to digital Dalma Kálovics; 17. Media mix as licensed distribution Dario Lolli; Part IX. Forms of Use: 18. Manga readerships, imaginative agency, and the 'erotic barrier' Patrick W. Galbraith; 19. Anime fandom in Japan and beyond Akiko Sugawa-Shimada.