[ecrea] CFP: Special Issue on "Japanese Media Culture: Manga, Anime, and Video Games" for ARTS

In the last few decades, Japanese popular culture productions have been 
consolidated as one of the most influential and profitable global 
industries. As a creative industry, Japanese Media-Mixes generate 
multimillion-dollar revenues, being a product of international synergies 
and the natural appeal of its characters and stories. The 
transnationalization of investment capital, the diversification of 
themes and (sub)genres, the underlying threat to the proliferation of 
illegal audiences, the development of internet streaming technologies 
and other new transformations in media-mix based production models, make 
the study of these products even more relevant today. In this way, manga 
(Japanese comics), anime (Japanese animation) and video games are not 
necessarily products designed for the national market. More than ever, 
it is necessary to reconcile national and transnational positions for 
the study of this cultural production.

We would like to invite potential contributors, either professionals or 
scholars, to submit their contributions to be considered by our review 
panel for a Special Issue of Arts. These discussions will be aligned to 
the analysis of Japanese Popular Cultural flows from any perspective 
(Cultural Studies, Film and/or Comic studies, Sociology, etc.) with 
special emphasis on manga, anime and video games. Some of the questions 
that can be addressed in this Special Issue, including, but not limited to:

☐ Studies on audiences: National and transnational case studies
☐ Fandom production and Otaku culture
☐ Relationship of Japanese Popular Culture and Japanese society
☐ Anime and authorship: Main figures
☐ Cross-Media and transmedia perspectives

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering 
and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to 
go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the 
deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be 
published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be 
listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review 
articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned 
papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the 
Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be 
under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference 
proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a 
single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant 
information for submission of manuscripts is available on the 
Instructions for Authors page. Arts is an international peer-reviewed 
open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a 
manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) is waived for 
well-prepared manuscripts submitted to this issue. Submitted papers 
should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's 
English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords
☐ Japan
☐ popular culture
☐ anime
☐ video games
☐ manga

This special issue is now open for submission. More information can be 
found on
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/japanese_media_consumption



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