Research Guides: CIN240: Anime!: Anime-Specific Journals

Bibliographies

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO): These links will take you to annotated bibliographies that highlight key resources (books, book chapters, essays, articles, reviews) on the topic. Look up the resources using the UofT LIbraries system or contact Cinema Studies Librarian, Kate Johnson if you need help in accessing the materials.

Web-based Bibliographies

Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies (web)
This website publishes comprehensive listings of academic publications (books, book chapters, and journal articles) on Japanese animation, comics, and related topics that were published in English in a given year.
IMPORTANT: if a resources is not linked to UofT Libraries and paywall is encountered, search for title via UofT LibrarySearch

Scholarly Journals - Anime

Want to narrow the scope of your research? Try searching one particular scholarly journal. The journal files are typically hosted in a larger database or within the publication's online archive.

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Anime and animation

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
(2020 - ) Peer reviewed
Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and Fan Arts
(2006 - ) Peer reviewed
Animation: an interdisciplinary journal
(2006 +), Peer Reviewed.
"The journal addresses all animation made using all known (and yet to be developed) techniques - from 16th century optical devices to contemporary digital media - revealing its implications on other forms of time-based media expression past, present and future."
Animation Studies
(2006 - ) Peer reviewed
Animation Journal
(1992 - )

Comics Studies

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
(2011 - ) Peer reviewed
"The Comics Grid is a collaborative, peer-edited online academic journal dedicated to comics scholarship. Its purpose is to make original contributions to the field of comics scholarship and to advance the appreciation of comic art within academia and the general cultural mediascape. This journal seeks to function as an online laboratory where different critical approaches to comics are publicly and collectively put to test. Though our scope wants to be as diverse as possible, our initial aim is to focus on the analysis of specific comics page layouts and panels."
International journal of comic art.
(1999 - )
Journal of graphic novels & comics.
(2010 - ) peer reviewed

Japan / East Asian / Cultural Studies

Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema
(2009)+ Be sure to check the date of the links in the catalogue.
This is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the cinemas of Japan and Korea and the interactions and relations between them.
Asian Studies Review
(1990 - ) Peer reviewed
Japan Forum
(1989 - ) Peer reviewed
Japanese Studies
The Journal of Japanese Studies
(1974 - )
New voices in Japanese Studies
(2015 - ) Peer reviewed
"An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal showcasing the work of emerging scholars from Australia and New Zealand with research interests in Japan."
Journal of popular culture
Peer-reviewed
Transformative works and cultures
(2008 - ) Peer reviewed

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction Film and Television
(2008+) Peer-reviewed. biannual, peer-reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press. With an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialog among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies.
Science Fiction Studies
(1973 - ) a scholarly journal that publishes articles and book reviews on science fiction (sf), broadly defined
Journal of the fantastic in the arts
(Online Access: 1998-Current) JFA, published since 1988, is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film, and Popular Media.

Research Guides

CIN240: Anime!

Bibliographies

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Web-based Bibliographies

Scholarly Journals - Anime

Anime and animation

Comics Studies

Japan / East Asian / Cultural Studies

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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