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Suspensions of Concentration WORKSHOP SERIES Suspensions of Concentration: Kimetsu no yaiba and Blockbuster in the Year of the Global Pandemic Friday 19 & Sunday 20 March 2020 Suspensions of Concentration: Kimetsu no yaiba and Blockbuster in the Year of the Global Pandemic Friday 19 & Sunday 20 March 2020 Our original research project “Location of Anime: Institutions, Disciplines, and Fields” was planned as an international symposium/seminar at Waseda University’s Brussels Office in collaboration with its partner institution, the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Fall 2020. Unfortunately, we had no choice but to cancel the event due to COVID-19. In the beginning, there was no plan to hold any alternative event because we were too exhausted from a seemingly endless series of Zoom meetings and other online affairs. While contemplating the discontinuation of the project, 劇場版「鬼滅の刃」無限列車編 or Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train was released on October 16, 2020. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, this anime movie became an instant blockbuster, and eventually surpassed Miyazaki Hayao’s Spirited Away (2001) to become the highest-grossing film ever in Japan. Intrigued by this blockbuster phenomenon and the wide-ranging social effects the movie and the original manga have created, we have decided to reorganize the original project by focusing on Kimetsu no yaiba or Demon Slayer. The main objective of our project remains the same, i.e., the investigation of the location of anime. This two-day online seminar is an attempt to accomplish this objective by examining a wide range of issues that are concretely related to Kimetsu no yaiba yet have implications beyond the single media franchise. Through presentations and discussions at the seminar, we will explore such topics and questions as the anime industry and media mix, fan culture, cosplay and social media, anime songs and music, voice acting and actors, genre systems, intertextuality, action and spectacle, speed and kinetic dynamism, narrative motifs, iconography, visual style, historical imagination, the political unconscious, affect, violence, censorship, gender and authorship, transnational reception and consumption, labor and marketing, COVID-19 and the culture industry, etc. By scrutinizing Kimetsu no yaiba in relation to these and other issues, we will collectively reflect on the location of anime in its broadest sense. While it is our intention to maintain and expand a global network of anime scholars, this international seminar is organized specifically for the purpose of fostering a collaborative research on anime among Japan-based and Europe-based scholars. In addition to in-depth discussions on the main topics of the seminar, we will also spend some time considering the original theme of this Japan-Europe joint research project: “Location of Anime: Institutions, Disciplines, and Fields.” Our hope is to cultivate collectively seeds of new ideas that can be developed into future cooperative research projects or partnerships. Suspensions of Concentration: Kimetsu no yaiba and Blockbuster in the Year of the Global Pandemic Friday 19 & Sunday 20 March 2020 SCHEDULE March 19th (Friday) 2 pm - 2.05 pm (JST) Welcome & Introduction 06:00 - 06:05 (CET) SESSION 1 - PANDEMIC TIME 2.05 pm - 2.50 pm Jason Cody DOUGLASS (Yale University) 06:05 - 06:50 “Animation in Times of Pandemic” 2.50 pm - 3.35 pm Christophe THOUNY (Ritsumeikan University) 06:50 - 07:35 “Kimetsu eroguro: Oni longing for a face” 10’ Q/A SESSION 2 - AFFECT AND POWER 3.45 pm - 4.30 pm Akiko SUGAWA-SHIMADA (Yokohama National University) 07:45 - 08:30 “Shinobu and Mitsuri as Post-Feminist or ‘Post’-Post Feminist Characters: Representations of Femininity and Power in Kimetsu no Yaiba” 4.30 pm - 5.15 pm Catherine REGINA BORLAZA (University of the Philippines 08:30 - 09:15 Diliman) “Binding Threads: The Emotional Structure of Attachment in the Animated Series Kimestu no Yaiba” 10’ Q/A 5’ Coffee Break SESSION 3 - MANGA AND THE MANGAESQUE 5.30 pm - 6 pm Jaqueline BERNDT (Stockholm University) 09:30 - 10:00 “More Mangaesque than the Manga: ‘Cartooning’ in the Kimetsu no yaiba anime” 6 pm - 6.30 pm Bryan HARTZHEIM (Waseda University) 10:00- 10:30 “Parasketches: Tankôbon Interstices in Kimetsu no yaiba” 6.30 pm - 7 pm Discussant: Julien BOUVARD (Université Lyon 3 - Jean Moulin) 10:30 - 11:00 10’ Q/A Suspensions of Concentration: Kimetsu no yaiba and Blockbuster in the Year of the Global Pandemic Friday 19 & Sunday 20 March 2020 March 20th (Saterday) 2 pm - 2.05 pm (JST) Welcome 06:00 - 06:05 (CET) SESSION 4 - HISTORY OF THE PRESENT 2.05 pm - 2.50 pm Stacey JOCOY (Texas Tech University) 6:05- 06:50 “Kagura Dance: The Musicality of Ritualized Dance as Historical Imaginary in Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba and Your Name/Kimi no Na wa” 2.50 pm - 3.35 pm Siyuan LI (Waseda University) 06:50 - 07:35 “Where is the Sacred Site? Reconsidering the ‘Sacralization’ of Tourism Destinations in the Midst of Public Craze for Kimetsu no Yaiba” 10’ Q/A SESSION 5 - ANIME’S CONVENTIONAL AND EXCEPTIONAL 3.45 pm - 4.15 pm Seio NAKAJIMA (Waseda University) 07:45- 08:15 “Talk of Success: A Pragmatic-Sociological Discourse Analysis of How People Explain Why Kimetsu Became a Blockbuster” 4.15 pm - 4.45 pm Stevie SUAN (Hosei University) 08:15 - 08:45 “Colorful Execution: Conventionality and Transnationality in Kimetsu no Yaiba” 4.45 pm - 5.15 pm Discussant: Lukas R.A. WILDE (University of Tubingen) 08:45 - 09:15 10’ Q/A 5’ Coffee Break SESSION 6 - KIMETSU AND BEYOND 5.30 pm - 6.15pm Rayna DENISON (University of East Anglia) 09:30 - 10:15 “The Distant Blockbuster: Gekijôban ‘Kimestsu no yaiba’ mugen ressha-hen (2020) and the Transnationalization of Anime Status” 6.15 pm - 6.45 pm Discussants: 10:15- 10:45 Marie PRUVOST-DELASPRE (Université Paris 8 Vincennes) Mitsuhiro YOSHIMOTO (Waseda University) 6.45 pm - 7.00 pm Concluding words 10:45 - 11:00 March 19th & 20th Suspensions of Concentration: 2021 Kimetsu no yaiba and Blockbuster in the Year of the Global Pandemic Friday 19 & Sunday 20 March 2020 Seminar Mitsuhiro YOSHIMOTO (Waseda University) Organizer/ Discussant Bio Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto is Professor of Media and Visual Culture and Dean of Graduate School of International Culture and Communication at Waseda University. His published books in English include Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema, Television, Japan, and Globalization (co-edited with Eva Tsai and Jung-bong Choi) and Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society after Fukushima (co-edited with Christophe Thouny). He most recently authored articles and essays on the intermedial TV drama adaptation of the manga and animated box office hit In This Corner of the World, nuclear disasters and ecocritical analysis of Japanese cinema, the Anthropocene and the apocalypse of cinema, and Fredric Jameson’s film theory for such journals as Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Asian Cinema, and Hyosho: Journal of the Association for the Studies of Culture and Representation. He is currently working on a book manuscript on Japanese anime. March 19th (Friday) Suspensions of Concentration: Session 1 Kimetsu no yaiba and Blockbuster in the Year of the Global Pandemic Friday 19 & Sunday 20 March 2020 Title Animation in Times of Pandemic Presenter Jason Cody DOUGLASS (Yale University) Abstract As an unprecedented box-office sensation, Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha makes for a fruitful site of inquiry for those interested in the enduring commercial success of theatrical anime despite the ongoing challenges posed to film exhibitors by COVID-19. Within the broader series, Kimetsu no Yaiba (hereafter Kimetsu) offers readers, viewers, and consumers an enigmatic take on a fantastical outbreak, as Tanjiro and his comrades seek to stop the spread of a curse that is turning humans into bloodthirsty demons. And as a media phenomenon, Kimetsu exhibits a number of viral-like qualities: it continues to spread across screens and bookshelves, disseminating throughout department stores and vending machines, and infecting those of us who caught the bug and have now decided to gather together to draw up a collective diagnosis of our present condition. By taking these various cues from Kimetsu – animation in pandemic, animation of pandemic, animation as pandemic – this talk endeavors both to locate the place of Kimetsu within animation history, and to consider some of the distinct forms and functions that animated media in Japan have assumed in times of pandemic. Rather than focusing closely on one of the myriad texts, spaces, or events that currently constellate the ever-expanding Kimetsu universe, I consider the franchise alongside brief historical snapshots taken from 1918 (“Spanish flu”), 1957 (“Asian flu”), 1968 (“Hong Kong flu”), and 1977 (“Russian flu”). Bio Jason Cody Douglass is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Yale’s combined program in Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures, as well as the graduate certificate program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. His dissertation brings questions of gender, race, class, and spectatorship to bear on the history of midcentury Japanese animation. His publications can be found in Film Quarterly, Animation Studies Online Journal, Women Film Pioneers Project, Animation Studies 2.0, and the edited collection Animation and Advertising (eds. K. M. Thompson and M. Cook, Palgrave Macmillan 2020). In 2018, the Society for Animation Studies awarded him the Maureen Furniss Award for Best Graduate Student Paper on Animated Media. In the fall of 2019, he served as Guest Faculty of Film History at Sarah Lawrence College. He is currently a Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellow based at Waseda’s Graduate School of International Culture and Communication. March 19th (Friday) Suspensions of Concentration: Session1 Kimetsu no yaiba and Blockbuster in the Year of the Global Pandemic Friday 19 & Sunday 20 March 2020 Title Kimetsu eroguro: Oni longing for a face Presenter Christophe THOUNY (Ritsumeikan University) Abstract In this presentation, I discuss Kimetsu as a symptomatic answer to the present planetary crisis, what I call Corona eroguro.
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