AnimeNYC 2025: Deconstructing the Force – Inside the Star Wars: Visions Panel

To look at Star Wars: Visions is to look at a franchise temporarily liberated from the crushing weight of canon continuity, allowing creators to lean entirely into texture, thematic friction,…

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AnimeNYC 2025: Industry and Iconography – Takeaways from the Bandai Filmworks Panel

If academia provides the analytical framework for how we process media, industry showcases remind us of the sheer, unyielding momentum of the machine. Moderated by Samantha Inoue-Harte, the Bandai Filmworks…

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AnimeNYC 2025: From Fandom to Faculty – The Academic Life of Anime and Manga

When popular culture intersects with institutional academia, the results are rarely confined to dry bibliographies or detached observation. At AnimeNYC 2025, the panel From Fandom to Faculty: The Academic Life…

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