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Discipline | Popular culture |
Sub-discipline | Anime and manga |
Institutions | Minneapolis College of Art and Design |
Nancy Lunning is an American academic who specializes in anime. She is a Professor Emeritus in Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Nancy Lunning [1] received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa and her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Hamline University. [2] In 2000,she received her PhD in Design,Housing and Apparel from the University of Minnesota. [1] She became a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1980,and she was director of their SES program from 1994 until 2010. [3] Lunning later became Professor Emeritus in Liberal Arts. [4]
As an academic,Lunning specializes in anime and manga. She and Sandra Annett are the co-editors of Mechademia ,an academic journal on Japanese popular culture; [5] she alone was also the editor of the journal's first run from 2006 until 2015. [6] In 2013,she published Fetish Style,a book on fetish fashion. [7] In 2022,she wrote the book Cosplay:The Fictional Mode of Existence . [6] She has also served as the director of the Schoolgirls and Mobile Suits conference and its successor Mechademia Conference. [8] She has also written chapters on object-oriented ontology. [6]
Outside of academia,she also worked in the film industry,as a costume designer and stage manager,and also as a producer for Moving Walkway Productions,a film production company specializing in music videos. [8] [9] She was a guest at KakkoiCon 2008 and AniMinneapolis 2011,two anime conventions in her local Minneapolis. [6]
Hentai is a style of Japanese pornographic anime and manga. In addition to anime and manga,hentai works exist in a variety of media,including artwork and video games.
Otaku is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests,particularly in anime,manga,video games,or computers. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in Manga Burikko.
Shotacon,abbreviated from Shōtarōcomplex,is,in Japanese contexts,the attraction to young boy characters,or media centered around this attraction. The term refers to a genre of manga and anime wherein prepubescent or pubescent male characters are depicted in a suggestive or erotic manner,whether in the obvious role of object of attraction,or the less apparent role of "subject".
Cosplay,a portmanteau of "costume play",is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture,and a broader use of the term "cosplay" applies to any costumed role-playing in venues apart from the stage. Any entity that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Favorite sources include anime,cartoons,comic books,manga,television series,rock music performances,video games and in some cases original characters. The term is composed of the two aforementioned counterparts –costume and role play.
In Japanese popular culture,lolicon is a genre of fictional media which focuses on young girl characters,particularly in a sexually suggestive or erotic manner. The term,a portmanteau of the English words "Lolita" and "complex",also refers to desire and affection for such characters,and fans of such characters and works. Associated with unrealistic and stylized imagery within manga,anime,and video games,lolicon in otaku culture is generally understood as distinct from desires for realistic depictions of girls,or real girls as such,and is associated with the concept of moe,or feelings of affection and love for fictional characters as such.
Rei Ayanami is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise,created by Gainax studio. In the anime series of the same name,Rei is an introverted girl chosen as the pilot of a giant mecha named Evangelion Unit 00. At the beginning of the series,Rei is an enigmatic figure whose unusual behavior astonishes her peers. As the series progresses,she becomes more involved with the people around her,particularly her classmate and fellow Eva pilot,Shinji Ikari. Rei appears in the franchise's animated feature films and related media,video games,the original net animation Petit Eva:Evangelion@School,the Rebuild of Evangelion films,and the manga adaptation by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.
Futari Ecchi is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsu Aki. It has been serialized in Young Animal since December 1996,with the chapters later combined into tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha,of which there are ninety as of February 2024. The series follows a newlywed couple in their mid-twenties,both virgins when they married,and chronicles their sexual explorations. The manga combines erotic elements with factual and informative statistics. Its title Futari Ecchi is a play on a slang term for masturbation,hitori ecchi. The series has 29.5 million copies in print and is most famous for being a how-to guide combined with a story.
He Is My Master is a Japanese manga series written by Mattsuu and illustrated by Asu Tsubaki,a formerly married couple. It originally ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from February 2002 to February 2007. It was adapted into an anime television series by Gainax and Shaft in 2005.
Ryōsuke Takahashi is a Japanese anime director,screenwriter,and producer. He has worked for Sunrise on many anime shows in the real robot genre,including Armored Trooper VOTOMS,Fang of the Sun Dougram,Panzer World Galient,and Blue Comet SPT Layzner.
Manga,in the sense of narrative multi-panel cartoons made in Japan,originated from Euro-American-style cartoons featured in late 19th-century Japanese publications. The form of manga as speech-balloon-based comics more specifically originated from translations of American comic strips in the 1920s;several early examples of such manga read left-to-right,with the longest-running pre-1945 manga being the Japanese translation of the American comic strip Bringing Up Father. The term manga first came into usage in the late 18th century,though it only came to refer to various forms of cartooning in the 1890s and did not become a common word until around 1920.
Maid cafés are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan and Taiwan. In these cafés,waitresses,dressed in maid costumes,act as servants,and treat customers as masters as if they were in a private home,rather than as cafépatrons. The first permanent maid café,Cure Maid Café,was established in Akihabara,Tokyo,Japan,in March 2001,but maid cafés are becoming increasingly popular. The increased competition drove the cafes to employ more diversified themes,gimmicks and even unusual tactics to attract customers. They have also expanded overseas to several countries around the world.
Oscar François de Jarjayes is a fictional character created by Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda. She is a major character in the 1972 manga series The Rose of Versailles,and its various adaptations and spin-offs.
The anime and manga fandom is a worldwide community of fans of anime and manga. Anime includes animated series,films and videos,while manga includes manga,graphic novels,drawings,and related artworks. The anime and manga fandom traces back to the 1970s and has an international reach.
Mechademia:Second Arc is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal in English about Japanese popular culture products and fan practices. It is published by the University of Minnesota Press and the editor-in-chief is Frenchy Lunning. Mechademia has also held an annual conference since 2001.
Otokonoko is a Japanese term for men who have a culturally feminine gender expression. This includes amongst others males with feminine appearances,or those cross-dressing. "Otokonoko" is a play on the word 男の子,which is also pronounced otokonoko;in the slang term,the kanji for "child" (子) is substituted with "daughter"/"girl" (娘).
THEM Anime Reviews,otherwise known as THEM or T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews,is an anime review website that writes about current and past anime in any form,including OVAs and ONAs. The website offers reviews,editorial content and hosts forums.
2.5 Dimensional Seduction is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yu Hashimoto. It began serialization on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ website in June 2019. An anime television series adaptation produced by J.C.Staff is set to premiere in July 2024.
Sandra Annett is a Canadian film academic. She published the book Anime Fan Communities:Transcultural Flows and Frictions (2014) and is co-editor of the academic journal Mechademia. She is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.