Susan Jolliffe Napier (born October 11, 1955) is a professor of the Japanese program at Tufts University. She was formerly the Mitsubishi Professor of...

scholarly book which uses techniques of literary criticism on anime by Susan J. Napier published in 2001 by Palgrave Macmillan. It discusses themes of shōjo...

point of view, especially regarding the final apocalyptic events. Susan J. Napier, an American critic and writer, linked the monstrous creatures in Neon...

"Tapestries of Apocalypse: From Angers to 'Nausicaa' and Beyond", Dr. Susan J. Napier places the film, and in particular the tapestry depicted underneath...

figure. Susan J. Napier and Patrick Drazen note a parallel between the character of Kushana, the rival warrior princess, and that of Nausicaä: Napier describes...

enthusiastically protect the protagonists from multiple aggressors. Susan J. Napier argues that this depiction reveals Miyazaki's yearning for a simpler...

represented in the work by the morphing experienced by characters. Susan J. Napier identified this morphing and metamorphosis as a factor that marks the...

women around him and in Eva-01, which contains her soul. Academic Susan J. Napier also interpreted the Angels as "father figures, whom Shinji must annihilate"...

fight for their share of the new emerging order." Anime historian Susan J. Napier said there is no clear good vs. evil conflict in Princess Mononoke...

prompting a revival in popularity for the music of J. A. Seazer. Anime and manga scholar Susan J. Napier notes that Japanese critics frequently compared...

social satire, but rather reflected Akutagawa's personal worldview. Susan J. Napier has called Kappa "Japan's first full-blown dystopian novel". Tsuruta...

international appeal of culturally neutral properties, Brian Ruh paraphrased Susan J. Napier in describing mukokuseki as "a way for contemporary Japanese to playfully...

contemporaries Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop. Professor Susan J. Napier, in her 2003 reading to the American Philosophical Society called The...

he bought them for his four-year-old son. Commenting on the issue, Susan J. Napier explained it as a difference in culture. After the ban, Viz reluctantly...

Edition". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 14, 2016. Napier, Susan J. (2001), Napier, Susan J. (ed.), "Controlling Bodies: The Body in Pornographic Anime"...

Kenzaburo (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, No 33) by Susan J. Napier (Harvard University Press, 1991 ISBN 0-674-26180-1) Deadly Dialectics:...

review by critics, academics and sociologists alike, including by Susan J. Napier, William Rout, Mick Broderick, Mari Kotani, Shinji Miyadai, Hiroki...

result. In her book Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle, scholar Susan J. Napier analysed how certain lessons in the series relate to Inuyasha's representation...

want to describe." With a frame of reference up to Tokyo Godfathers, Susan J. Napier notes that while the theme of performance is the one obvious commonality...

Fantasy And Fan Cult In The Western Imagination is a scholarly book by Susan J. Napier, published in 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan. It connects Japanophilia...

appeared in the Animage top 50 character list as recently as 1992. Susan J. Napier described Oscar as a "truly complex and three-dimensional figure who...

of at least one of the main characters, Reki, is implied. Professor Susan J. Napier suggests all the other haibane are suicide victims as well, seeing...

them for his four-year-old son. Commenting on the issue, manga critic Susan J. Napier determined the ban as a difference in culture due to Japan having tolerance...

themselves has been analyzed by critics, often in terms of feminist theory. Susan J. Napier described the Sailor Guardians as "powerful, yet childlike", and suggested...

elementary school. Notably, the trial featured experts Scott McCloud and Susan J. Napier testifying for the defense. Castillo was sentenced to 180 days in jail...

contributed significantly to the development of shōjo manga as a medium. Susan J. Napier notes that Oscar's characterization as a "complex and three-dimensional"...

Prince and Other Tales in the Rebuild of Evangelion series. Critic Susan J. Napier also noticed that in the last two episodes she confesses to wanting...

February 11, 2001. Napier, Susan J. (2005). Anime – From Akira to Howl's Moving Castle. p. 100. ISBN 1-4039-7052-1. Napier, Susan J. (2005). Anime – From...

(1948–2010), Tasmanian politician Susan Napier, New Zealand novelist Susan J. Napier, American professor Thomas Napier (builder) (1802–1881), Scottish builder...

to an activity that occurs in public life. Anime and manga scholar Susan J. Napier argues that butler cafés represent a widening of otaku culture to be...