article on pokemon/pikachu, kawaii (cuteness), and millennial consumerist capitalism

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One historical generalization about 1990s Japan

"In the case of Japan, the 1990s witnessed a multiple breakdown of political, economic, and sociocultural orders and induced a visible shift in the mood of society reflecting an end to the glorious age of Japanese economic success on the global stage. The decade saw a burgeoning political instability, the Heisei depression and financial crisis, and the so-called burst of the bubble economy, developed in the midst of the dramatic international geopolitical restructur- ing that followed the end of the Cold War. "


Source: Iida Japanese Identity and the Crisis of Modernity in the 1990s 425

Further terms for Manga and Graphic Novels

https://voicesinhistory.wikispaces.com/file/view/Graphic_Novel_Vocabulary.pdf