Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 19h"When books become 'texts' that we 'interact' with according to criteria of utility, the written word will have become simply another aspect of our advertising-driven televisual reality. […] It means nothing less than the death of inwardness—and of the book." – Susan Sontag 111
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The problem with Duolingo is not the gamification in itself, but the fact that said gamification is not adjusted with learning in mind and is instead tuned to keeping the user happy. No frustration, no friction, just the illusion of progression even when you're doing virtually nothing. 110
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Lupin Central @lupincentral.com · 30/09/2026Here is a comparison of the previous Blu-ray release (left) and the new 4K restoration (right). 2139
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These acrilic stands reminds me of how bad TMS is at handling the Lupin The Third franchise and at catering to the fans, which is probably one of the reasons why its popularity is in steep decline in Japan. These acrylic stands are completely inconsistent and even contain a giant mistake. 160
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026After Mystery of Mamoo and Castle of Cagliostro, it's Part 1's turn to get a 4K ultra HD remaster in Japan to celebrate its 55th anniversary. www.vap.co.jp/lupin_part1_...vap.co.jpルパン三世 PART1[4K ULTRA HD Blu-ray BOX]|VAP放送55周年!『ルパン三世』の原点が4K ULTRA HDで登場![4K ULTRA HD Blu-ray BOX]2027年1月27日(水)発売! 010
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Usually this kind of things doesn't touch me at all, but the way westerners talk about Takashi Yamazaki and his Godzilla movies in particular really rubs me off the wrong way. Minus One here was received as a scathing critique of Japan's imperial past, ignoring that the movie presents the common 220
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If I had unlimited time this is the kind of things I'd be reading 24/7. 200
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) BungakuReportEN(文学通信 海外版) @bungakureporten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026How Buddhism Spread in Japan, 650–850 Bryan D. Lowe University of Hawai'i Press uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu... 051
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Almost finished watching Votoms and I finally understand the connection with Lupin III - The Mystery of Mamoo. 001
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I don't know exactly why, but this movie looks flavorless to me. Like an empty pastiche. 100
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtvR...youtube.comBaustelle - Gli SpietatiYouTube video by Krynor Tube 100
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 20/09/2026This *could* be a fan essay on an early-2000's website. This *is* a paper in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. "...these narratives position cooking as a mechanism for transforming monsters from objects of fear into objects of curiosity, knowledge, and consumption." doi.org/10.1080/2150...doi.orgRare and delicious: from monster to meal in Japanese gourmet fantasy mangaThis study examines how gourmet fantasy manga, particularly Delicious in Dungeon and Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, reconfigure monstrosity through the act of cooking and c... 132
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Nicoryuu @mangabanashi.org · 20/09/2026Le prochain film de Doraemon, Nobita’s Steam-Powered Time Machine, écrit par Makoto Ueda (Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, Summer Time Machine Blues), je dis oui ! Le mec est clairement fan des mangas de Fujiko F. Fujio et Beyond the Infinite est clair sur ce point :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFWu...youtube.com【特報映像】『映画ドラえもん のび太の蒸気時間車』 <2027年3月5日(金)公開!>YouTube video by 【公式】ドラえもん / 藤子・F・不二雄チャンネル 233
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You could make three or four books just by compiling all the academic articles (or chapters from other books) that are entirely focused on dispelling the myth that a given artform is a language. This one is from The Oxford Companion of Comic Book Studies. 100
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Maybe to overcome some of the limits of writing about drawings (comics, animation) we should learn how to draw. 200
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Leiji News (零士ニュース) @leijinews.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026Le premier visuel teaser du nouveau film de Galaxy Express 999 a été dévoilé ! Il est visible à L'exposition "Leiji Matsumoto - Un voyage créatif" (松本零士展 創作の旅路) du musée Kadokawa Musashino de la ville de Tokorozawa. #LeijiMatsumoto #松本零士 #Leijiverse #Maetel #メーテル #GalaxyExpress999 #銀河鉄道999 02212
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Lately I feel more inclined to engage with other people on social media and have arguments with strangers. My therapist encouraged me to do so because usually I'm the kind of person that prefers to keep what he thinks to himself to the point of exploding and I must say that it really is liberating. 000
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm happy to see that Crayon Shin-chan and Doraemon are still in good shape, especially movie-wise. Maybe I'm being melodramatic, but I think that they are two important strongholds in the world of traditional animation. 010
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)William Andrews @william-andrews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I wrote a few thoughts about the new short film Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo. throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/m... 094
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excellent work and a reminder of why I (we?) love anime. Exciting and terrifying that people that writes stuff this good exists!!! Btw, if I remember correctly, the first article about sakuga I've ever read was precisely a rudimentary introduction of the webgen. 021
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Matteowatz @matteowatz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's my birthday today, so new article on the new (?) blog: An examination of the web-gen, its animators, social dynamics, technological roots, philosophy and legacy... And an attempt at providing a sociological and academic framework for sakuga! ⬇️ animetudes.com/2026/09/16/a...animetudes.comA sociology of the webgenRetracing the social, artistic and intellectual evolution of web-generation animation, this article first introduces the web-gen in more detail and examines its social dynamics, focusing on the net… 1148
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Matteowatz @matteowatz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A bit late but sharing the CfP for a very cool symposium I'm co-organizing! Japanese film & animation researchers welcome! ifrae.cnrs.fr/en/film-scre...ifrae.cnrs.frFilm, Screens and Media in Japan: Negotiating Legitimacies and Legacies - French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE/UMR 8043)Deadline : 30 septembre 2026 International Symposium : “Film, Screens and Media in Japan: Negotiating Legitimations and Legacies” University of Lorraine, Metz (France), 4-5 March 2027 The Research Center on […] 065
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026nubifluttuanti.com/2026/09/14/m...nubifluttuanti.comMaria Roberta Novielli, ANATOMIA DEI CORPI IBRIDI. IN DIALOGO CON TSUKAMOTO SHIN’YA[English version below]Recensione del libro postumo di Maria Roberta Novielli, in dialogo con Tsukamoto Shin’ya, edito da Marsilio Prima della pubblicazione di Anatomia dei corpi ibridi, nelle pres… 020
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's the first time I experience the sadness and the whiplash of a beloved voice cast getting changed... is this what it means to be an adult?... www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMyr...youtube.comTVアニメ『ケロロ軍曹☆』本PV第2弾│10月3日(土)より放送開始!YouTube video by 【公式】ケロロチャンネル 011
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 13/09/2026Just 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... 143
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · 13/09/2026♫Nananananananana nananananananana Kamishibatman♫ 0175
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You start understanding Votoms only when you realize how important the next episode previews are. 011
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The complete Kerberos Saga (well, almost complete, no Tachiguishi Retsuden) is coming to Netflix in Japan on sept 14. Once again, I wonder if StrayDog will have a better quality than the rip that circulates on the internet. Maybe I'll use a VPN to check it out. anime.eiga.com/news/127427/anime.eiga.com押井守監督の実写映画「紅い眼鏡」「ケルベロス 地獄の番犬」9月14日からNetflixで配信 劇場アニメ「人狼 JIN-ROH」も押井守監督の実写映画「紅い眼鏡」「ケルベロス 地獄の番犬」、押井監督が脚本を手がけた劇場アニメ「人狼 JIN-ROH」が、9月14日からNetflixで配信される。 「紅い眼鏡」「ケルベロス 地獄の番犬」「人狼 JIN-ROH」は、押... 100
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026From Esper Mami ch. 61 (second to last chapter, sigh) His wife threw away his precious old manga collection and so Fujiko F. Fujio has an excuse to draw some stuff from his childhood and the beginning of his career. Btw, each chapter of this fantranslation has translator's notes (third image). 110
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026AI is only the most recent in a long line of services that in the last 10-15 years big tech have been using as weapons to destroy the concept of the personal computer. Nothing is on your devices anymore, nothing can be done without an internet connection, everything is a service. 130
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Coyote vs ACME felt like a really good idea executed in autopilot mode. The beginning and the ending are where it shines, but the rest is just plain and kinda forgettable. The clumsy cel-shading used to animate almost all of the looney tunes characters didn't help. At least it has good gags. 020
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 07/09/2026So, Deborah Shamoon feels it's time to *go there*. "English language scholarship on manga has neglected shōnen and seinen manga almost entirely...This is due to the scholarly preference for primary texts that can be more easily labeled subversive of gender norms." muse.jhu.edu/pub/166/oa_e...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 032
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It's so strange to hear the new voices for the cast... only Tamama sounds like the old one. youtu.be/pRAErY7Pn_8?...youtu.beTVアニメ『ケロロ軍曹☆』本PV第1弾│10月3日(土)より放送開始!YouTube video by 【公式】ケロロチャンネル 011
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Matt Schley @mattschley.com · 07/09/2026My chat with Shinya Tsukamoto about his latest film, Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?:screendaily.comShinya Tsukamoto talks Venice competition war drama ‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’The Japanese filmmaker behind 'Fires On The Plain' and 'Killing' on the "definitive work" in his series of features about war. 0196
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's child abuse to force a trans kid to detransition. The trauma of that action is something they will carry for the rest of their lives every time they look in the mirror. One day the pendulum will swing back, and the cowards who capitulated will be treated as such. 0182
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Btw, this year I want to finally watch Kudo's Amachan, the 2013 NHK asadora inspired by 3.11, starring Non with Yoshihide Ōtomo's OST. And I've just discovered that Kudo is going to write the 2028 asadora starring Yūmi Kawai (!!!!), so I'm even more overjoyed. 000
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Just discovered that this October a new show written by Kankurō Kudo is coming out on Netflix, so I'm extremely overjoyed. youtu.be/-tUulrroh6A?...youtu.be「俺のこと、なんか言ってた?」ティーザー予告編 - NetflixYouTube video by Netflix Japan 000
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Went off HRT this year after 20 plus years, because my state banned coverage of it for trans adults. I don't give a fuck if you watch Harry Potter or not. House is already burned down and you're arguing about shitty TV. 2121
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026American government trying to figure out the most expedient way to erase trans people from public life, but the only normie discourse about trans lives is fucking Harry Potter and hypothetical scenarios where trans girls might consider playing basketball. 0196
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)むらかわみちお @ringlet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026連載のカドコミでの更新は11日頃になるみたい。 この数ヶ月、1円も稼ぎがなかったので財布も心も余裕がなかったけれど、掲載されてしばらく待てば糊口がしのげるようにはなるはず。 引き続き漫画を描いて行こう! 326676
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 02/09/2026One *more* thing to say for "manga studies" - and for studying manga - is that the new and authoritative Modern Japanese Literary Studies volume - now out from UMich Press - includes a chapter on "Approaches to Researching and Teaching Manga as Literature"! muse.jhu.edu/pub/166/oa_e...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 042
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)The Murders in the Brian Ruh Morgue @brianruh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The new Ghost in the Shell adaptation said the line! 19834
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Watched this on YouTube. Probably the most important film for understanding the last 20 years. Basically if Lain was made post 9/11. One of those films Criterion is too cowardly to release. 1102
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 01/09/2026You ever needed a straight answer? Now we have one! "It is argued that Cool Japan lacked clear aims, evidence of needs, concrete programs to address specific needs, and resources needed for implementation; hence, it is better understood as a campaign than as a policy. brill.com/display/book...brill.com 042
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Ryū Murakami's Love & Pop (Topaz II) is finally getting an italian edition this year. 010
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Sarca @sarcasc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Excerpt #01 Madoka Rebellion storyboards & corrections B-part, C139-C158 021
Reposted by Matteo Caronna (Maborupa)Matteowatz @matteowatz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Rewatching some old Toei films. One thing that strikes me that I hadn't noticed before (because I didn't know about it) is how close the effects animation is to the patterns set out by Kenzô Masaoka in his animation courses/manuals 283
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GUH...youtube.com宇多田ヒカル「桜流し」Music Video(4K UPGRADE)YouTube video by Hikaru Utada 000
Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I have only 11 chapters left to read. It kinda makes me sad. 010