Editorial

Marco Pellitteri,Herb Fondevilla

doi:10.32926/2018.5.pel.edito

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Editorial

Highlights

Mutual Images is a semiannual, double-blind peer-reviewed and transcultural research journal established in 2016 by the scholarly, non-profit and independent Mutual Images Research Association, officially registered under French law (Loi 1901)
In the first edition of Mutual Images we have explored, thanks to the papers selected, some of the relevant areas of the never ending dialogue between Japanese and European cultures
In our discourse on mutual images, more an imagined and fantasized place than a real one. This applies when we limit our discourse to youth cultures, as it has been shown, for instance, in recent research on the connections between the popularity of anime and manga in Europe—namely in France and Italy—and a new kind of cultural tourism towards Japan and the learning of the Japanese idiom, both based on the passion for manga, anime, and their narrative settings (Sabre 2006 and 2007, Pellitteri 2010)

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Introduction

Mutual Images is a semiannual, double-blind peer-reviewed and transcultural research journal established in 2016 by the scholarly, non-profit and independent Mutual Images Research Association, officially registered under French law (Loi 1901).

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