Book Review: 'Japanese Influence on American Children's Television: Transforming Saturday Morning'
Japanese Influence on American Children’s Television: Transforming Saturday Morning by Gina O’Melia. Palgrave Macmillan. Japanese animated shows are ubiquitous these days. There is hardly a streamer or channel in North America that doesn’t serve up some form of Japanese — or Japanese-influenced — series. You can’t scroll through Netflix without bumping into one. My own kids (mid-teens) watch more Japanese shows than anything else these days. As obvious as that sounds to contemporary readers, it certainly wasn’t always that way, as Gina O’Melia, adjunct professor at the Divisi...