Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Is There Such a Thing as Animy Horror?
The author was sceptical about the idea that there could be animy horror. In japan, they weren't talked about in that way so much as a horror genre. The word horror wasn't really being used very much. These were y you get or vampire stories, or they were yokai stories. They were connected to each other erically, in those specific traditions. There's interesting romantic horror, anima, an things like vampire nights is a good example of one of those those high brid ones where it's as much about girls being in love with vampires as it is about the vampires themselves. Enemy ther the more kind of am splatter, they're a punk enim
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