🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 on Mythryl: “I once said to the head of a Japanese literature department: "You…”

I once said to the head of a Japanese literature department: "You spend all this time covering subjects like Japanese diaspora Brazilian writing--which is interesting and worthy of study!--but say nothing about the most widely read Japanese literature on earth--manga."

🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃@zackdavisson.com

An observation: Much of Japan-focused academia is--perhaps willfully--ignorant of Japanese pop culture. They Ivory Tower themselves for the "important" culture and distain the rest. I was at a gathering of luminaries recently, and I was the only one to recognize the Sailor Moon theme song.

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