Interdisciplinary and Integral Research on "MANGA Studies"

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"MANGA Studies" is en route for its academic formation. Analyses on MANGA works, including MANGA criticism, sociological studies of MANGA, cultural studies of MANGA, history pf MANGA, iconology of MANGA, literary criticism of MANGA as text, intellectual history of MANGA expression and so on, are carried on with numerous methodologies. Acordingly, "MANGA Studies" remains in a kind of "Hundred Flowers", that is, an amorphous and multitudinous situation. Therefore, to articulate actual problematiques, essential methodological questions or future assignments of "MANGA Studies", on a theoretical and historical basis of previous research results about MANGA, has a great importance for forming interdisciplinary "MANGA Studies".As our research project developed, it became clear that "MANGA Studies" has 3 urgent inherent problems : 1)To overcome the present situation of "MANGA Studies" enfettered by the ideas of historical ‘continuity' and academic ‘integrality'. 2)To bring another scholarly genres such as philosophy or theoretical economics into play in order to develop useful characteristics of "MANGA Studies". 3)To rethink the social significance of MANGA and advance the thesis that MANGA has a definite influence on the possibilities to have social contradictions such as racism, sexism or political chauvinism licked.