Dec21 Guests – Page 2

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November 26, 2021

Comikey is an online official comic platform created by digital publisher Comikey Media Inc., a US-based company that aims to bring a high-quality reading experience to users worldwide. The company was founded in April 2020 and has since partnered with multiple publishers in Asia to bring the very best of their series to our readers. In order to give our users the best experience possible, we strived to recruit a core team of dedicated staff that would understand our users best. This means that our team is passionate about what they do, and it shows - many of us have over 10 years of experience working in the industry and are motivated by a genuine passion for what we work on....

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November 26, 2021

D is the Chief Operations Officer of Peach Flower House LLC, an independent publishing company specializing in Chinese novels and LGBTQIA+ fiction. In her role, D is responsible for running marketing campaigns, keeping abreast of market trends, and ensuring that the day to day operations for Peach Flower House run smoothly. With over ten years of experience in human resources, learning and development, and operations/management, she has been an advocate for process improvement in several companies (such as Burlington Stores) prior to this role. When she isn’t herding Blossom back into her sheep pen, she likes to savor green tea, bake, curse her luck at gatcha rolls, pull out a good book, or jam to some karaoke. She also enjoys film...

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November 26, 2021

Megan Catherine Rose is a researcher at UNSW Sydney ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She specialises in kawaii fashion communities in Tokyo, and has years of experience in the field working with models, designers and participants in Lolita Fashion, Decora, Shironuri, Fairy Kei and Gyaru communities....

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November 26, 2021

Sharon Elkind began her cosplay career in the mid-1990s as an extension of a harvest festival costume contest and parade. After several years of learning to sew and tailor, she began competing in the amateur levels in the US from 2003-2004, participating in Japan from 2004-2005, and then returning to the US scene in 2006. In 2010 she moved to Australia to start her master’s degree investigating Japanese reinterpretations of Ming Dynasty-era Chinese literature. While still cosplaying, she began making costumes for others and started observing differences between the US and Australian cosplay scenes. This spawned the topic for her doctoral dissertation, amongst the largest academic projects on international cosplay to date. Since then, she has expanded into digital cosplay...

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November 26, 2021

James Welker is a professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Kanagawa University in Yokohama, Japan. He researches gender and sexuality in postwar and contemporary Japan, with an emphasis on the consumers and producers of queer media, the lesbian community, and radical feminism, as well as the globalization of Japanese popular culture. He is currently researching the global fandom of queer media from Japan, including boys love (BL), yuri, and trans manga, anime, and other media, and the relationship between that fandom and local LGBTQ+ cultures. He is the author of Transfigurations: Redefining Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan (forthcoming) and the editor of Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia (forthcoming), BL ga hiraku tobira: Hen’yō suru Ajia no sekushuariti to jendā (BL opening doors: Sexuality and gender...

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November 21, 2021

Jocelyne Allen is a Japanese translator and interpreter who splits her time between Toronto and Tokyo. She has translated hundreds of short stories, novels, and manga, including the Eisner Award-winning titles Remina by Junji Ito and Onward Toward Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki, the critically acclaimed Our Dreams at Dusk by Yuhki Kamatani, and the classic shojo manga The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda. As an interpreter, she has worked with Japan’s most celebrated authors and artists, including Sayaka Murata, Inio Asano, Eto Mori, and Natsume Ono. She can be found online at kaikatsu.ca, blogging about books at brainvsbook.com, or noodling about translation and manga on Twitter (@brainvsbook)....

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November 21, 2021

Matt Alt is a translator of many books, manga, and video games. He is the author of "Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World" (Crown, 2021)...

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June 27, 2021

Greetings Whitefont here, I have been drawing digitial since 2017, but I have just begun to polish the style you see "here". From Game art to Anime I love them all I admire the artists I followed on Pixiv and twitter. Thier works triggered me to give this "Style" a shot. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiroFong Pixiv.net: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/16514310...

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June 14, 2021

Dr. Yoni Sobin, PsyD, a self-proclaimed “Nerd Therapist,” is a clinical psychologist in private practice based out of New York City who specializes in treating OCD and anxiety disorders, using cognitive-behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy approaches. He loves incorporating pop culture directly into the course of a patient’s treatment and using fandom to help patients live their best life. In his spare time, he enjoys Lord of the Rings on repeat, reading graphic novels, and building Lego. Sometimes he tries to move metal with his mind and fails. Yoni finds joy in (over)analyzing the psychological makeup of fictional characters. Dr. Sobin has contributed to “THE JOKER PSYCHOLOGY: EVIL CLOWNS AND THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM,” and joined many...

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June 14, 2021

Dr. Joshua Paul Dale specializes in Cute Studies, a new academic field. He was awarded a four-year grant by the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) to study the Japanese kawaii and American cute aesthetics in 2020. Dale is a co-editor of The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness (Routledge 2017) and the editor of “Cute Studies,” a themed issue of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (Intellect 2016). His book Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World is forthcoming from Profile Books. Dale has been featured as an expert on cuteness by media outlets such as CNN, National Geographic, The Guardian, The Cut, Refinery29, and Discover Magazine. Dale is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tokyo Gakugei University. His...

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