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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 03/10/2026

Dude, given that I'm seeing actual real-world bookstores put up displays like this one - you realize, you hit your way into a Trend!

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 03/10/2026

My chara Fall 2026 season costume options.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 26/09/2026

From a different angle, but, same sunset.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 22/09/2026

If it's there, it can be here too! And if you know me, you can probably imagine that most, if not all of these would be up there in the list. Hell, I'm credited in one of them (OK, in one of the movies...) #my9animes

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 21/09/2026

Once again, library haul is - &all over the place*. I guess this is really my personality, right there...

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 18/09/2026

Now even better! Book from 2004. Book from 2026.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 18/09/2026

You were not prepared for this! Were you prepared for this? But it's COMING FOR YOU!!! "a scholarly edited volume that attempts to explain the Pokémon brand's cultural significance on the occasion of its 30th anniversary." www.bloomsbury.com/us/gotta-stu...

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 18/09/2026

2026 is sitting in a Bushwick bar, listening to a jazz band playing a cover of the Yuri!!! on Ice OP. As Haruhi is on the TV screens above the stage.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 16/09/2026

A question that is *interesting* to ask. When scholars write about Studio Ghibli movies, which ones do they actually write about? Looking at the numbers - for English-language scholarly publications on a single specific Ghibli film, the rankings are: Source: miyazaki.animemangastudies.com

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 15/09/2026

Oh, hello, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Going for the millennial nostalgia - *hard*!

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 13/09/2026

Just in time for the fall semester starting - happy to announce that the Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies is now updated to list as close as possible *all* scholarly publications on Japanese comics and animation this year so far! Have fun! www.animemangastudies.com/database/202...

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 12/09/2026

At Lofty Pigeon Books in Brooklyn, for their three-year anniversary. And, first thing I see on the shelf! Oh, hey, @adapalmer.bsky.social!

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 11/09/2026

This has seriously been on my To Go list for like twenty years.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 05/09/2026

This came up in my Facebook memories - repost from 2019. ...the original is from - oh, 2005. Good times Bloomington. The start of everything since.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 14/08/2026

Ten years ago Otakon Peak everything?

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 14/08/2026

Again confusing the YouTube Music algorithm Like so.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 07/08/2026

Perfect New York. No, you can't buy cat.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 11/02/2026

You know - I think it's starting to look like Anglophone manga scholars *are* beginning to take your work more and more seriously! Latest example: doi.org/10.1515/9798...

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 09/02/2026

I *thought* I was Done Buying Stuff this trip. How was I supposed to know!!!.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 07/02/2026

The manga shelves in the Resting Room at the Dormy Inn Premium Otaru. I LIKE!

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 06/02/2026

I rarely do gacha pulls. But, very satisfied with this one!

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 05/02/2026

Had no idea this was a thing at the Snow Festival / did not expect to see. I mean, not surprised at all, but, still.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 04/02/2026

Sapporo. Continuing w/the Important Parts!

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 04/02/2026

Also me. (I know I am, but what are you?)

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 01/02/2026

#trailsbeyondthehorizon Towa Herschel discovers porny scanlations. (...or Tinder).

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 28/01/2026

Prize for Collection of Scholarly Essays w/a VERY INTRIGUING TITLE goes to! link.springer.com/book/9783032...

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 21/01/2026

No idea if this has been digitized or even really *published*. National Archives looks like the most likely source.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 21/01/2026

When you are Crunchyroll - these are the kinds of things you get sued for.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 19/01/2026

The Peer-Reviewed Essay Collection on Isekai Anime/Manga/Light Novels - yes, this is A THING - is not due for another couple of weeks...but you can now see the table of contents on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social website! www.bloomsbury.com/us/exploring... Which one are you the most hyped about?

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 17/01/2026

In the spirit of remembering 2016 - let's also remember the books and book chapters and journal articles on anime/manga from that year. And there is ALot to remember! www.animemangastudies.com/database/201...

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 12/01/2026

Would give so much to conveniently hand him uh...the book. With the cover. amzn.to/3vD16Kq

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 11/01/2026

Unexpected. And welcome! First time something I wrote was referenced in a Japanese publication?

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 04/01/2026

Already beginning the 2026 Anime and Manga Studies Bibliography! Already know about two monographs and an essay collection that are scheduled for later in the year! And several dozen chapters and articles have already been released to the public! www.animemangastudies.com/database/202...

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 16/12/2025

Сегодня дедушке 98 лет. Петрухин, Адам Васильевич Как мама сказала, родился в семье железнодорожников в 1927 году в деревне Поповка. Отец Василий работал на железной дороге, мама - Александра, по хозяйству. У дедушки Димы было 2 старшие сестры: Тамара и Серафима.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 15/12/2025

In the New York City Kinokuniya. @eikeexner.com - all you!

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 14/12/2025

Dude, I am SO SORRY! Yes, I wrote this article. Yes, I am Mikhail Koulikov. And you are also Mikhail Koulikov. We are two different people. ...who once worked for the same company. And you have nothing to do with this article.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 12/12/2025

Happy to announce! The Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies now includes full tables of contents for every essay collection on Japanese comics and Japanese animation that has been published in English - more than 20 just in the last ten years! www.animemangastudies.com/database/bro...

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 11/12/2025

The only appropriate image for this.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 07/12/2025

What we do on a Saturday night. Global Russian Cultures!

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