1. JAPANESE ANIMATION BASIC LITERATURE SEARCH

2. QUICK OVERVIEW Normal Google search shows three or four sites for general reading:

3. SCHOLAR SEARCH Google Scholar search displays plenty of documents on the subject:

4. GOOGLE BOOKS Google Books combined with SHU Library (currently available books):

5. ADVANCED SEARCH Changes made:New results:

6. CHOSEN ARTICLES http://users.bergen.org/ricwee/EE/sampleVA.pdfhttp://users.bergen.org/ricwee/EE/sampleVA.pdf - The Role 21st Century Post-War Japanese “Otaku” Culture Played in Influencing Takashi Murakami’s Artwork (Essay) http://wlt.metapress.com/content/um784236g216208x/http://wlt.metapress.com/content/um784236g216208x/ - From Nuclear Nightmare to Networked Nirvana: Futuristic Utopianism in Japanese Films of the 2000s (Journal) http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ThfHNyM3f- 4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA173&dq=Japanese+Animator+%22Hayao+Miyazaki%22&ots=M_Zj Hr5PAi&sig=y5xZCxazcPYevGEK_Hixt9F-WqY#v=onepage&q&f=falsehttp://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ThfHNyM3f- 4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA173&dq=Japanese+Animator+%22Hayao+Miyazaki%22&ots=M_Zj Hr5PAi&sig=y5xZCxazcPYevGEK_Hixt9F-WqY#v=onepage&q&f=false – The Reluctant Messiah: Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Book) http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v5_2/wegner/http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v5_2/wegner/ - An Unfinished Project that was Also a Missed Opportunity: Utopia and Alternate History of Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro (Online article) http://gradworks.umi.com/14/54/1454009.htmlhttp://gradworks.umi.com/14/54/1454009.html - Animating the Chaos: Contemporary Japanese Anime, Cinema and Postmodernity (Thesis)

7. REFERENCES PAN, Christina (2009). The Role 21 st Century Post-War Japanese “Otaku” Culture Played in Influencing Takashi Murakami’s Artwork. IB Extended Essay, Bergen County Academies HENDRIX, Grady (2010). From Nuclear Nightmare to Networked Nirvana: Futuristic Utopianism in Japanese SF Films of the 2000s. World Literature Today, 84, 55-57 JOHNSON-WOODS, Toni (ed.) (2010). The Reluctant Messiah: Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. New York, The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. WEGNER E., Phillip (2010). An Unfinished Project that was Also a Missed Opportunity: Utopia and Alternate History of Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro, [Online], Anime and Utopia, Volume 5. http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/ SUZUKI, Ayumi (2008). Animating the Chaos: Contemporary Japanese Anime, Cinema and Postmodernity. MA Mass Media, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale