Anime & Manga – Journal of Geek Studies

November 22, 2025

Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology

Anime & Manga, Biology, History

Dinosaurs, Fantastic Beasts, Paleontology, Steampunk
June 20, 2025

Wilted lands and wounded worlds: visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Anime & Manga, Biology, Cinema

Color Theory, Ecology, Ghibli, Nature Conservation
April 26, 2024

Are Japanese anime robots isometric or allometric?

Anime & Manga, Engineering, Television Series

Gundam, Mechanical Engineering, Mechas
November 11, 2023

My neighbor Linnaeus: The influence of Studio Ghibli in zoological nomenclature

Anime & Manga, Biology, Cinema, Japan Studies, Zoology

Ecology, Fantastic Beasts, Ghibli, Taxonomy, Zoology
July 26, 2023

Gundam Plastic Model Kit consumer spending in Indonesia

Anime & Manga, Economy

Gundam, Mechas, Model Kits, Survey
April 6, 2023

A practical implication of the Astolfo Effect: bias in AI generated images

Anime & Manga, Artificial Inteligence, History, Japan Studies, Video Games

Fate Franchise, Fate Grand Order, Large Language Models, Mobile Games
February 1, 2023

Togemon: a Cactaceae in the Digimon world

Anime & Manga, Biology, Video Games

Botany, Digimon
December 25, 2022

Testing the Astolfo Effect on newly-released servants in Fate/Grand Order

Anime & Manga, History, Japan Studies, Video Games

Fate Franchise, Fate Grand Order, Mobile Games
October 13, 2022

Cicadas in Japanese video games and anime

Anime & Manga, Biology, Japan Studies, Literature

Ecology, Entomology, Fate Grand Order, Higurashi, Pokémon, Taxonomy, Zoology
March 6, 2022

“Believe in Getter!” or “Believe in humanity!”? Getter Robo Saga as a parable of technology

Anime & Manga, Economy, Science Fiction

Getter Robo Saga, Mechas, Science Fiction, Technology