Sugawa Akiko

Associate professor at Yokohama National University, specializing in media and gender studies. Received her Ph.D in television studies from the University of Warwick. Author of Shōjo to mahō: Gāru hīrō wa ikani juyō sareta no ka (Girls and Magic: Representations of Magical Girls and Japanese Female Viewership) and Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives (University Press of Mississippi, 2013).