The attached paper is based on a talk given at the Mechademia conference in September 2010. Mechademia conferences (http://www.mechademia.net) are held annually at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and biennially in Asia.
The paper explores the significance of urban riversides as a setting in anime. The paper concludes that riversides and bridges are used as liminal spaces where a wide range of personal and societal issues can be explored.
Studying Anime 