Mogu Mogu

🎎 An interest Hello to you, dear reader. You are probably here wondering what this place is and who I am, so I'll let you off the hook. My name is Cami, class of 1992, Japanese translator, comic artist and Italian pest. I have always had the feeling I could explain my point of view on a type of media I have been a fan of since my early childhood: anime and manga. It all began when my sister handed me a Card Captor Sakura volume (which I read from left to right, like a dumbass) at the age of seven and I was immediately transported to a different world.  That feeling, also known as escapism , was what dragged me through middle and high school; my mind fixed on the desire to learn Japanese-- which, in retrospect, I know sounds extremely naive. However, differently from a lot of kids who say they want to learn Japanese more as a phase before finding their own, actual field of study, I did  end up studying the language and culture. I even got a Master's degree, back in the ye old

  I have abandoned this blog for too long, counting almost two years on the dot. However, a lot has happened since my last review! I got into a PhD program, and I am indeed focusing on queer representation in Japanese animation and comics; I published a book on the same topic (it is in Italian, but maybe one day I will translate some chapters or some extracts); I presented a section of my research at a university for the first time; I am writing a paper (this will be in English, so maybe I will share a link lol); I have added links on the sidebar to two articles I published on online animanga news sites! I have not been slacking off!! I swear!! However, I thought I could not keep writing twenty pages for each review I wanted to make: it takes a lot of time, and many people prefer shorter insights. I do not mind the idea of writing less, but I will have to keep my you-must-know-everything-about-this-topic monster at bay, or I will never complete anything. I remember some fri