I’ll add it to the list! Ironically, in the production of this volume, I watched very little new anime, and it’s only since we’ve finished that I’ve been consuming more new stuff.
Fascinating. (Maybe I’ll recover from the sticker shock!) I never imagined that, in my later years, I’d take an interest in anime. But like millions, I was hooked by Pixar’s Inside Out—pure Pixar CGI. Irritated by the usual academic condescension, I started reading about the director and discovered he was deeply influenced by anime. That led me to explore how the medium weaves religious imagery into broader questions of authority, identity, and social transformation.
Now along come you and your colleagues—treating this subject not as niche or trivial, but as a serious matter of theological and cultural inquiry. You address head-on what many of us once wrote off as mere Japanese cartoons. Thank you for that. (Even if I may need to raise my Amazon credit limit.)
How many preorders do you have? My scouter device is reading over 9,000!
My continued joke with Rob is “Time to retire on that sweet, sweet anime money.”
On that note, I highly recommend the surrealist anime film Angel's Egg in case you have not watched it yet.
I’ll add it to the list! Ironically, in the production of this volume, I watched very little new anime, and it’s only since we’ve finished that I’ve been consuming more new stuff.
Fascinating. (Maybe I’ll recover from the sticker shock!) I never imagined that, in my later years, I’d take an interest in anime. But like millions, I was hooked by Pixar’s Inside Out—pure Pixar CGI. Irritated by the usual academic condescension, I started reading about the director and discovered he was deeply influenced by anime. That led me to explore how the medium weaves religious imagery into broader questions of authority, identity, and social transformation.
Now along come you and your colleagues—treating this subject not as niche or trivial, but as a serious matter of theological and cultural inquiry. You address head-on what many of us once wrote off as mere Japanese cartoons. Thank you for that. (Even if I may need to raise my Amazon credit limit.)