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✍️ Okabe, Mimi
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🏛 Bloomsbury Academic 📅 2025 📖 216 pages 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781350325135

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Explores the revival of the boy detective archetype in three commercially successful manga published between the 1990s to the early 2000s as a response to the crisis of youth culture in Japan's so-called 'lost decade'.

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