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Napier seems to thrive between the worlds of fandom and academe, but to a reader who knows both areas, her work is sadly lacking. As in her last book, the Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature, she hopes to pull the wool over the eyes of other academics by choosing a specialty that few of them know. But as other reviewers have pointed out, she doesn't know it all that well herself either, and her observations on the handful of anime she has seen are marred by a lack of *anime* context. Such holes in her "fan" knowledge don't do her any favors with the fan community either -- far more contextualisation and comprehension is offered in the more populist work of Patrick Drazen… Read more
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