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Introduction Jaqueline Berndt and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer  Part 1: Crosscultural Perspectives on Manga Studies  1. Localizations of Manga in the U.S. Frederik L. Schodt  2.  "Manga" as a form of "Western" resistance against traditional Japanese expression: Kitazawa Rakuten and the early discourse on "manga" Ronald Stewart  3. The mischief gag comic, a constitutive and enduring international phenomenon: Yohokama Ryūichi’s "Fuku-chan" and its friends in Europe and the Americas Pascal Lefèvre  4. Tentacles, Superheroes, Pencil Strokes: The parodic body in European and Japanese erotic comics and manga Elisabeth Klar  5. Translating the visual languages of Japanese fan comics and North American and European fan art Nele Noppe 6. Mainstream manga as a challenge to transcultural Comics Studies Jaqueline Berndt 7. Manga/comic hybrid forms in picturebooks: Emergence of a transcultural art form Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer  Part 2: NARUTO as cultural crossroad  8. NARUTO as a typical weekly-magazine manga Tomoyuki Omote  9. The traditional Naruto (maelstrom) motif in Japanese culture Franziska Ehmcke  10. (NARUTO as a manhwa: On the reception of Japanese popular culture in the Republic of Korea Chie Yamanaka  11. Women in NARUTO, women reading NARUTO Yukari Fujimoto  12. Fanboys and NARUTO epics: Exploring new ground in fanfiction studies Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto and Nora Renka  13. auteur and Anime as Seen in the NARUTO TV Series: An Intercultural Dialogue between Film Studies and Anime Research Sheuo Hui Gan  14. Playing NARUTO: Between meta-narrative characters, unit operations and objects Martin Roth