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Paperback When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl Book
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ISBN: 1940589037

ISBN13: 9781940589039

When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl

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The first manga widely available in English, MAI, THE PSYCHIC GIRL -- written by Kazuya Kudo, with art by Ryoichi Ikegami -- offered a near-perfect story for American readers: a realistic super-hero story, in line with revisionist American comics of the time (like WATCHMEN). In this short book, Dr. Julian Darius explores the comic, its depiction of super-powers, its relationship to revisionism, its depiction of female sexuality, and the various...

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