The Past is With Us and Yet to Come: A Hauntological Analysis of Tsutomu Mizushima’s Anime Series, ‘Another’

Japanese director Tsutomu Mizushima’s 2012 animated television series, Another, presents a narrative whereby one social group’s refusal to accept an unexpected death triggers an intergenerational curse. This paper takes a close reading of Mizushima’s anime, showing how its narrative contends that th...

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Published in:	New Voices in Japanese Studies
Main Author:	Luke Beattie
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Japan Foundation, Sydney 2020-08-01
Subjects:	3.11 anime atomic victimhood derrida hauntology history narrative post-war world war ii japan
Online Access:	https://newvoices.org.au/volume-12/the-past-is-with-us-and-yet-to-come-a-hauntological-analysis-of-tsutomu-mizushimas-anime-series-another/