{"id":1844,"date":"2007-05-01T12:57:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T16:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:54:07","slug":"mechademia-volume-1-emerging-worlds-of-anime-and-manga-edited-by-frenchy-lunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/mechademia-volume-1-emerging-worlds-of-anime-and-manga-edited-by-frenchy-lunning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechademia, Volume 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga edited by Frenchy Lunning [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/05\/Mechademia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30362\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/05\/Mechademia.jpg\" alt=\"Mechademia\" width=\"351\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>While not itself a graphic novel, <em>Mechademia <\/em>is an inevitable \u2013 and arguably necessary \u2013 byproduct of the manga and anime craze, imported from Japan and embraced by the West, having now established itself into the intelligentsia\u2019s hallowed ivory towers. Move over, <em>otaku <\/em>\u2013 the professor wants to read alongside!<\/p>\n<p>The debut annual journal creates an accessible, regular forum for scholars, critics, and fans to discuss the latest and greatest in the phenomenal pop culture world of graphic novels and beyond. Watch this space for the next installment. [Oh, and for those of you wondering \u2026<em>otaku <\/em>basically is a not-so-polite way to say, \u2018hey, YOU!\u2019 in its original Japanese, but in the West, it\u2019s become a badge of honor for the most hardcore anime and manga fans.]\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1845\" title=\"mechademia\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/04\/mechademia.jpg\" alt=\"mechademia\" width=\"128\" height=\"183\" \/>While not itself a graphic novel, <em>Mechademia <\/em>is an inevitable \u2013 and arguably necessary \u2013 byproduct of the manga and anime craze, imported from Japan and embraced by the West, having now established itself into the intelligentsia\u2019s hallowed ivory towers. 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[Oh, and for those of you wondering \u2026<em>otaku <\/em>basically is a not-so-polite way to say, \u2018hey, YOU!\u2019 in its original Japanese, but in the West, it\u2019s become a badge of honor for the most hardcore anime and manga fans.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,20,6535],"tags":[89,1968,6608,3392,2623,3393],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-anthology-collection","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-frenchy-lunning","tag-lit-crit","tag-mechademia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mechademia, Volume 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga edited by Frenchy Lunning [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/mechademia-volume-1-emerging-worlds-of-anime-and-manga-edited-by-frenchy-lunning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mechademia, Volume 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga edited by Frenchy Lunning [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While not itself a graphic novel, Mechademia is an inevitable \u2013 and arguably necessary \u2013 byproduct of the manga and anime craze, imported from Japan and embraced by the West, having now established itself into the intelligentsia\u2019s hallowed ivory towers. 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