Saito, Kumiko. “Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women’s Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan.” Mechademia 6, no. 1 (2011): 171–91. doi:10.1353/mec.2011.0000. Writer Author:Emma Emma is beginning her career as a writer and academic on anime, manga, and contempo...
A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls. ...
Stress The bidirectional interactions of gut–brain mean that the brain can also alter gut microbiota composition [110]. A model of social disruption among adult mice [111] demonstrated that exposure to stress results in substantial changes in gut microbiota composition: a decrease in Bacteroides ...