Education
Biography
Edo is a scholar of Japanese and Asian animation and transmedia cultures.
My research examines the role of fan’s quotidian pedestrian mobility in the construction of urban transmedia environments, industries, and products. I am interested in the reconstruction of complex transmedia histories, looking at city space as a point of convergence between many perspectives on animated media, storytelling, media production, and social life.
My current book project discusses the recent evolution of Japanese transmedia, media mix, in dialogue with the creative transmedia tensions emerging from the urban crossroads where the industry meets its audiences. The manuscript explores the potential and limits of grassroots social movements’ inscription in transmedia industries.
My passion for mixing quotidian experience with high theory, fan methodologies with academic epistemologies, comes from a long experience collaborating with grassroots media communities in Japan, France, and Canada.
Research Interests
- Animation and Anime Studies
- Transmedia Studies
- Film and Multimedia Industries
- Game Studies
- Queer Theory
- Fan Studies
Selected Publications
Journal Articles:
- "Imagining Diversity: Mapping the Potential and Limits of a Queer Otaku Theory." Mechademia 14, no. 2 (2022): 116-133. muse.jhu.edu/article/845495.
- “Crossmedia or where Anime, Games and Toys Collide: Level 5 and the Alternative History of Japanese Transmedia”, Replaying Japan, Vol.2 (2020): pp. 23-31.
- “Animer la ville : Les aventures urbaines du média mix de l’animation télévisuelle japonaise” La revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, Vol.18, (2020). https://doi.org/10.4000/rfsic.8194
- "Pedestrian Media Mix: The Birth of Otaku Sanctuaries in Tokyo." Mechademia 12, no. 2 (2020): 140-163. muse.jhu.edu/article/761077.
Book Chapters
- “街空間と運動としての女性向けメディアミックス” , 運動としての大衆文化 (Mass culture as social movements) edited by Ôtsuka Eiji, Suiseisha, 2021, pp. 140-175.
- “クイアな身体の可能性──オタク・メディア・漫画表現” , 身体の大衆文化 描く・着る・歌う, (The Body of mass cultures; drawing, presenting, singing), edited by Matsui Sonoko and Hernandez Alvaro, Kadokawa, 2021, pp. 75-90.
- Co-authored with Marc Steinberg “Otaku Pedestrians” Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies Paul Booth, ed. Oxford, UK: Wiley Pub: 289-304. 2018.
Other publications
- “Introducing Queer Perspectives in Manga History: Sexy Still Images in the Art of Yamakawa Jun’ichi” Dôjin Journal, Vol.1 (2020): pp.15-26.
Edited Journal Issues
- Dôjin Journal, Vol. 1, Co-edited with Alvaro Hernandez Hernandez for the Nichibunken Institute. November 2020.