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  Anime Fairy Tales: Fighting Fate and Convention

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  Amanda Landa RTF UT-Austin

  March 14, 2012

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  begins, “mukashi, mukashi,” or “long ago,” and each episode is themed with orchestral pieces from famous ... Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker, and others. In the beginning, Duck/Tutu’s primary opponents are the dark ...
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  "Genki Dama Saves the World": Japanese Popular Culture, Globalization, and Relief Efforts

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  April 25, 2011

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  can begin to mean something more than just entertainment in times of crisis; it embodies a moment ...
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  Luz Diabla: Queer Horror in Argentinian Animation

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  Sofía Poggi

  October 30, 2025

  blackness begins to engulf him. The spell breaks when the blindfolded bartender severs his supernatural ...
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  El Cazador de la Ciudadana

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  March 10, 2009

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  El Cazador de la Ciudadana immigration slash fiction El Cazador de la Inmigrantes, anime queer citizenship Curator's Note El Cazador de la Ciudadana (The Hunter of the Citizen)   I am using this week’s theme to call attention to the ways in which que ...