Jed A Blue: 5 books

Grown men and women watch a show created to sell toys to four-year-old girls. Are they confused deviants? Rebels standing bravely against repressive social norms of gender and age? Or a circle of friends just trying to have fun? This first volume of essays adapted from the blog My Little Po-Mo...

"Don't forget. Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember her, you are not alone." The 2011 anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica rapidly became one of the smash hits of the genre, and a mere four years later is well on its way to becoming a classic....

Like them or hate them, the fans of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic have created a plethora of derivative works, from the typical fanfiction and fanart to long-running comics, audio dramas, video games, songs, and even animation! Not to be outdone, licensed derivative works have proliferated as...

Grown men and women watch a cartoon made to sell toy horses to four-year-old girls. Now increasingly notorious, "bronies" have been called everything from sexual deviants to a bellwether of post-ironic culture, from misogynists to a vision of a future free from gender norms.This second volume...

Whether they’re tracing depictions of the apocalypse from their roots in the ancient Near East to hit anime of the 90s and 2000s, exploring the ways in which certain mecha and magical girl shows equate trauma and heroism, or just trying to figure out why the hell Utena turned into a car, the essays...