It is a Tuesday night in Los Angeles, and a teenager is crying over a fictional cyclops named Muzan Kibutsuji ( Demon Slayer ). In Paris, a banker is analyzing the real estate economics of Spirited Away . In Brazil, a grandmother is knitting a scarf of Pikachu .
The Quiet Revolution: How Japan’s Entertainment Industry Became the World’s Unlikely Superpower Jav Suzuka Ishikawa
Anime is no longer a genre; it is a lingua franca. It is a Tuesday night in Los Angeles,