![]() ![]() After the 1990s, Natsume went on to revise his early approaches to manga study, analysis, and scholarship, as seen in his New Challenges for the Field of Manga ( Mangagaku e no chosen, 2004). ![]() Although Natsume’s publications are too numerous to list here, he is author and co-author of approximately twenty books on manga and manga scholarship, including monographs like Where Is Tezuka Osamu? ( Tezuka Osamu wa doko ni iru, 1992), the first full-length study on the manga giant. Like McCloud, Natsume pioneered techniques to see and analyze comics that are still in use today by scholars. It is not a stretch to compare the latter’s Understanding Comics to Natsume's work in the classic How to Read Manga ( Manga no yomikata, 1995 co-authored with Takekuma Kentarō and others) and his subsequent Why Is Manga So Interesting? Its Expression and Grammar ( Manga wa naze omoshiroi no ka: sono hyōgen to bunpō), which aired originally as a NHK ten-week lecture mini-series. Originally a manga artist himself in the 1980s, by the 1990s he began doing more writing about manga, although he often still employs his cartooning skills to assist in his analysis and explanation of his subjects, much like his American contemporary Scott McCloud. Despite his recent retirement from Gakushūin in March, he is still very active in manga criticism and scholarship. ![]() Natsume Fusanosuke is Emeritus Professor of the Graduate Program of Cultural Studies in Corporeal and Visual Representation, Gakushūin University. Features Time to Re-Evaluate Taniguchi Jirō’s Place in Manga ![]()
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