Animated Discussions: Collected Writings on Anime
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Collected essays on anime, from Akira to Erased, revolutionary girls and EVA pilots to Puella Magi and alchemists, and beyond!
Backers: 41
Average Pledge Per Backer: $30
Funded: $1,240 of $1,000
Dates: Oct 4th -> Nov 4th (32 days)
Project By: Jed A. Blue
Backers: 41
Average Pledge Per Backer: $30
Funded: $1,240 of $1,000
Dates: Oct 4th -> Nov 4th (32 days)
Project By: Jed A. Blue
$1,240
current pledge level
Last Updated: November 4 @ 20:02 -0400 GMT
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of goal
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Latest News
We hit goal! 
November 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Yep! Thanks to a HUGE surge over the last couple of days, we've made goal! The Kickstarter is at exactly $1000 with 22 hours to go! So, now I'm going to see if I can get us to that first stretch goal... ;) (Read More)
Excerpt from Charles Dunbar's guest chapter!
November 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Wow! We shot from around $700 to $900 in just a day and a half! As promised, below is an excerpt from Charles Dunbar's as-yet-untitled guest chapter on creating a new taxonomy of mecha anime. I have edited it very lightly. At first glance, giant... (Read More)
Excerpt from "Fullmetal Alchemy: The Real-World Alchemical Tradition and Arakawa's Magnum Opus"
October 20th - via: kickstarter.com
We hit $500! We're halfway home! As promised, here's an excerpt from the big alchemy chapter. This comes from fairly late in the chapter: There are two symbols or diagrams which the anime closely associates with Ed. The most commonly seen is the... (Read More)
Excerpt from "The Duel Named Revolution: Making Sense of Revolutionary Girl Utena"
October 6th - via: kickstarter.com
This excerpt is the introduction to the chapter. The logic is flexible; the poetry is immutable. --Steven Moffat Normally, when we talk about something being true–in the everyday sense, or the sense used in the sciences–we mean that it possesses... (Read More)
Excerpt from "Break the World's Shell: Anime Apocalypses as Social and Personal Revolution"
October 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Below is an excerpt that begins approximately halfway through the chapter, following a discussion of the historical development of the apocalypse genre. While there are far too many apocalypses in anime to name, let alone analyze, within the scope of... (Read More)
Preliminary Table of Contents
October 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Here's the planned list of essays for the book and how I intend to organize them. This is all subject to change; I don't think I'm going to be removing any essays from the list, but I might reorganize it or change some titles, and I know there's at... (Read More)
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