Anime’s popularity has surged in the United States over the last few decades, but it can sometimes be hard explaining to people sometimes that anime isn’t a genre, it’s a medium. It’s not all doe-eyed schoolgirls and giant robots. (Admittedly, a lot of it is, but that’s beside the point.) In this post, I’m going to break down some of the top-level genres in anime and occasionally point out how they differ from Western popular entertainment.
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For this week’s interview, we’re trying something new. We’ve recorded the first ever Kwanzoo podcast! You can listen along with the interview here.
Our interviewee is Gene Yang, author of a number of critically acclaimed comic books, including American Born Chinese. His next book, The Eternal Smile, is a collaboration with artist Derek Kirk Kim and is due out this spring from Macmillan. Commentary and notes on the interview are after the jump.
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