When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl

by Julian Darius

Overview

The first manga widely available in English, MAI, THE PSYCHIC GIRL -- written by Kazuya Kudo, with art by Ryoichi Ikegami -- offered a near-perfect story for American readers: a realistic super-hero story, in line with revisionist American comics of the time (like WATCHMEN). In this short book, Dr. Julian Darius explores the comic, its depiction of super-powers, its relationship to revisionism, its depiction of female sexuality, and the various attempts to adapt the story as a motion picture.

From Sequart Organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940589039
Publisher:	Sequart Research & Literacy Organization
Publication date:	06/06/2014
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

In 1996, while still an undergraduate, Dr. Julian Darius founded what would become Sequart Organization. After graduating magna cum laude from Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisconsin), he obtained his M.A. in English, authoring a thesis on John Milton and utopianism. In 2002, he moved to Waikiki, teaching college while obtaining an M.A. in French (high honors) and a Ph.D. in English. In 2011, he founded Martian Lit, which publishes creative work, including his comic book MARTIAN COMICS and his transgressive novel NIRA/SUSSA. He currently lives in Illinois.