Patrick W. Galbraith, Feb. 8, 2022

Описание: The 325th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium held on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 7pm EST. Intro: Ben Katchor. For more info: https://nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/

Patrick W. Galbraith on Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga

Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are by now a common feature of popular culture around the world. While it is often observed that these media forms appeal to broad and diverse demographics, including many adults, eroticism continues to unsettle critics and has even triggered legal action in some jurisdictions. Increased visibility of a wide range of manga and anime, including erotic variants, has led to deepening suspicion, public outrage and calls for strengthening regulation, if not banning some content out right. Erotic comics, or eromanga, are most often held up as examples of the extremes and violations of manga, anime and even the nation of Japan itself. International tensions around manga as popular culture and policed content raise questions about freedom of expression and its limits. With such issues in mind, this talk presents the English translation of Nagayama Kaoru’s Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). The goal is to open up the book’s content, as well as its ethical project and politics, for discussion and informed debate.

Patrick W. Galbraith is an Associate Professor in the School of International Communication at Senshu University in Tokyo. His recent publications include Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan (Duke University Press, 2019) and The Ethics of Affect: Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood (Stockholm University Press, 2021). He is the co-translator of Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga (Amsterdam University Press, 2020).