Below is a potentially growing list of essays related to anime that are academic, treated with scholarly-level rigor and complete with scholarly-level sources. I hope to read more about anime at a peer-review tier, and I hope to write more about whenever I get the opportunity to write about what I (give myself a graded excuse to) read on an academic basis.
Cults in Anime Post-Aum: Post-Aum Anime TV Series as Reflective Screens into the Japanese Psyche
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