Gogai! Gogai! Gogai!

I don't know if anyone actually reads bios, so here's my little manifesto again. Next post, the real fun begins!


Welcome, bienvenue and irasshaimase! This is my "academic anime" journal, where I'll post (at least) weekly about anime, manga, and other interesting aspects of Japanese popular culture. I'm setting it up largely for myself as an exercise in writing, but I hope that others interested in anime will eventually come along. This blog should be especially useful if you're working on anime in any academic context, since I'm researching it for a PhD thesis, and may write about books and articles on anime as well as actual movies and series. But it isn't all work and no play at Merin-chan's: I'm a fangirl too. A little low-key squeeing (or ranting) is always in order! ^^