"Stevie Suan utterly transforms our understanding of anime. Using media theory to expand the formal analysis of anime conventions, while calling on a transnational framework to avoid a simplistic opposition between local and global, he not only provides incisive readings of key anime series, but also lays out a powerful and much-needed methodology for thinking anime in the world."-Thomas Lamarre, author of The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media
"Focusing on formalism and performance studies in particular, rather than taking a phenomenological or sociological approach, Stevie Suan proposes a radical alternative for engaging with anime studies."-Daisuke Miyao, author of Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema
"Anime's Identity provides a multilayered overview of cultural debates on anime for an English-reading audience."-The Journal of Asian Studies
"Suan effectively challenges mainstream understandings of anime itself"-Japan Review
