OBISPO, Joanna Luisa

Senior Researcher, Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University Specialized field: Asian Studies, Cultural History, Cultural Studies
Degree: Ph.D. in International Relations (Ritsumeikan University), 2023
Doctoral Thesis: Historicizing Audience Reception of Anime by Post World War II Filipino Multigenerational Viewers
Recent Papers: 1. Obispo, J. L. B. (2022). “Filipino Baby Boomers and Generation X: Audience Reception of Voltes V,” Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University, Vol. 4 (pp. 69-84), November.; 2. Obispo, J. L. B. (2022). “Firipin ni okeru Nihon anime no genchi-ka to sono juyō” [Localization and Reception of Japanese Animation in the Philippines] (I. Hirano, Trans.). In M. Ishida & J. Kim (Eds.), Gurōbaru Anime-ron: Karada/ Ākaibu/ Toransunashonaru [Global Anime Theory: Body/Archive/Transnational], pp.35-49. Tokyo: Seikyūsha. December.
Recent Research Interests: Anime reception, Audience history, Television memories, Creative labor in Asia and the Philippines