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DRAFT - Journal of Anime and Manga Studies

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is an annual, peer-reviewed academic journal about anime and manga, cosplay, and their fandoms. It is published by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

History
JAMS was founded by Billy Tringali and launched in November 2020 as an open access journal. Tringali stated that goal of founding JAMS included an interest in increasing the accessibility of scholarship about anime and manga.

In 2019, the journal was sourced by The Washington Post for a comment on Disney's appropriation of elements from the Japanese anime, Kimba the White Lion, to make the film, The Lion King.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed by ROAD, Crossref, FATCAT, Wikidata, and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

JAMS is published under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial license. The journal does not require article processing charges. Anonymous peer review is provide

Symposium
In 2023, JAMS partnered with Mechademia and Anime Expo to launch the MechaJAMS Symposium, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center during Anime Expo, which consisted of nine panels. Future symposiums will be a collaboration between JAMS and Anime Expo.