Erotic Comics in Japan

Patrick W. Galbraith is a Lecturer in the School of Law at Senshu University in Tokyo. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. His recent publications include Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan (Duke University Press, 2019) and AKB48 (Bloomsbury, 2019). Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Ryukoku University in Kyoto. She holds an M.A. in Japanese Studies and an M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Catholic University of Leuven, and an M.A. in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Human Sciences from Osaka University. Her research focus is sequential art made by and for girls and women. Nagayama Kaoru is a manga critic and activist based in Tokyo.

• Translators' Introduction: Eromanga in the Global Now, Introduction: The Invisible Realm, Part 1: A History of Eromanga, Memes Spread, Chapter 1: The Gene Pool of Manga and Gekiga, Chapter 2: The Rise and Fall of Third-Rate Gekiga and the Eve of Bish?jo-Style Eromanga, Chapter 3: Bishojo-Style Eromanga Takes the Stage, Part 2: The Various Forms of Love and Sex, Subdividing Desire, Chapter 4: Lolicon Manga, Chapter 5: Big Breasts and Manga, Chapter 6: Little Sisters and Incest, Chapter 7: Disgrace and Training, Chapter 8: Love Stories, Chapter 9: Sadomasochism and Sexual Minorities, Chapter 10: Gender Mayhem, Part 3: Addition to the Expanded Edition (2014), Eromanga in the Twenty-First Century, Conclusion: Permeation, Diffusion and What Comes After, Pornography Without Sex, Afterword (2006), Afterword to the Expanded Edition (2014), Index of Artists and Individuals.

"Packed with dense on-the-ground knowledge and experience, this book illustrates how erotic manga and eroticism per se interleaves with manga for children and globally recognized works. A valuable resource for students of postwar sexuality and comics."- Sharon Kinsella, University of Manchester "This path-breaking English-language resource on eromanga is eye opening. It not only undermines assumptions about the gender identity of creators and readers, but also exposes that manga is not fully manga without its mediations of sexuality."- Jaqueline Berndt, Stockholm University "Nagayama presents a history of the development of erotic manga, and run-down of its many variant niches, sure to prove eye-poppingly illuminating to contemporary scholars."- Jonathan Clements, author of Anime: A History