Vol 12 (2013)

Transnational boys' love fan studies, edited by Kazumi Nagaike and Katsuhiko Suganuma, Oita University, Oita, Japan

Table of Contents

Editorial

Transnational boys' love fan studies HTML
Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma

Theory

Doing Occidentalism in contemporary Japan: Nation anthropomorphism and sexualized parody in "Axis Powers Hetalia" HTML
Toshio Miyake
Rotten use patterns: What entertainment theories can do for the study of boys' love HTML
Björn-Ole Kamm

Praxis

Transplanted boys' love conventions and anti-"shota" polemics in a German manga: Fahr Sindram's "Losing Neverland" HTML
Paul M. Malone
Simulation and database society in Japanese role-playing game fandoms: Reading boys' love "dōjinshi" online HTML
Lucy Hannah Glasspool

Symposium

Reflection on Chinese boys' love fans: An insider's view HTML
Erika Junhui Yi
Where program and fantasy meet: Female fans conversing with character bots in Japan HTML
Keiko Nishimura
The possibilities of research on "fujoshi" in Japan HTML
Midori Suzuki
On the response (or lack thereof) of Japanese fans to criticism that "yaoi" is antigay discrimination HTML
Akiko Hori

Review

"Mechademia Vol. 6: User Enhanced," edited by Frenchy Lunning HTML
Samantha Anne Close
"Writing the love of boys: Origins of 'bishōnen' culture in modernist Japanese literature," by Jeffrey Angles HTML
Emerald King


Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), ISSN 1941-2258, is an online-only Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Contact the Editor with questions.