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Japanese Influence on American Children’s Television: Transforming Saturday Morning by Gina O’Melia. Palgrave Macmillan.
Japanese animated shows are ubiquitous these days. There is hardly a streamer or channel in North America that doesn’t serve up some form of Japanese or Japanese-influenced series. You can’t scroll through Netflix without bumping into one. My own kids (mid-teens) watch more Japanese shows than anything else these days.
As obvious as that sounds to contemporary readers, it certainly wasn’t always that way, as Gina O’Melia, adjunct professor at the Division of Social Sciences at Hudson County Community College, makes clear in her new book about America’s tradition of Saturday Morning (O’Melia capitalizes both letters) programming. And I can confirm this as a kid growing up with Saturday Morning shows in the 1970s.
Stars Wars Day brought hint of normalcy for Tampa Bay comic fans
Actor Ray Park, who portrayed Star Wars baddy Darth Maul, met fans at Clearwaterâs Emerald City Comics.
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Steven Kanyer, of Wesley Chapel, waits in line for the opportunity to meet Ray Park, the actor who portrayed Darth Maul in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, at Emerald City Comics in Clearwater. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ]
It was May 4, Star Wars Day â May the Fourth Be With You Day
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âWe chose May 4 for
Star Wars,â he said.
To celebrate, he and wife Shelby Vidd, 25, were in line at Clearwaterâs Emerald City Comics to meet actor Ray Park, who portrayed