Meet The Anime Apostle: Billy Tringali

Hot off the presses! What a way to kick off the week - Indianapolis' own "Anime Apostle" is in Indianapolis Monthly!! A very, very fun interview, and an honor to be highlighted with so many other amazing librarians from the Hoosier State www.indianapolismonthly.com/featured/bil...

From luxury fashion and Studio Ghibli, to family dynamics in SPYxFAMILY, this issue of JAMS is our biggest one yet! Explore nearly 350 pages of scholarly work about your favorite anime here in the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies!

Pretty cool guy!

But do anime cons realize that bringing in academic speakers yields a +.2 monthly prestige increase and a +20 percent increase in Personal Scheme Potential?

💖 AnimeNYC Art Haul 💖 My favorite part of cons!

Had the pleasure of talking about JAMS, anime studies, and librarianship on two amazing panels at AnimeNYC! I'm so heartened to see so many opportunities for public scholarship emerging for professors and librarians at larger conventions - especially needed right now!

AnimeNYC Day 0 is a HUGE success! Badge acquired, and managed to grab last minute tickets to a show! "Death Becomes Her" was AMAZING! It's also fun making small talk with folks and being able to say I'm here in NYC to talk about anime! I wish I could tell younger Billy the way his life would go!

Thrilled to share I'll be speaking at AnimeNYC next week! Here me talk about anime and manga scholarship, and rep JAMS and IU Library in: "From Fandom to Faculty: The Academic Life of Anime and Manga" on Friday! And "Oh Grow Up!: Seinan and Josei Manga/Anime" on Saturday! My first AnimeNYC! 🥳

Hey, if y’all need an respected academic at your show and it’s not AX weekend, I know a guy… @billytringali.bsky.social

32 years old today! I'm so lucky to have built a wonderful little community both in Indy and of academic anime researchers all around the world. I'm lucky to now call colleagues I respect so much my very dear friends! Here's to another big year of adventures! I am so grateful!

This year I was named a Library Journal "Mover and Shaker" for serving as Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies @animestudies.bsky.social , and Indiana University Indianapolis sent me to HARVARD this week to solidify my leadership skills! THANK YOU UNIVERSITY LIBRARY! 🎓💖

Closing Ceremonies crew for Anime Expo! Where else do you get to see dance performers, a J-Pop group, and academic researchers all in one place? Congratulations Daniel Ambord for Best Academic Presentation, and to Janine Sun, Daniel Ambord, and Raylene Gomez for winning Best Academic Panel! 🥳💖

Had an absolute blast at the JAMS Conference at the Los Angeles Anime Expo! @animestudies.bsky.social @billytringali.bsky.social

When you, the Anime Apostle (Library Movers and Shakers, 2025) and the Manga Maven (Library Movers and Shakers, 2022) meet upat Anime Expo to discuss how to most effectively maximize your joint slay Love you to bits @jrlibrarian.bsky.social ! 🤣

Hello Anime Expo! The JAMS@AX Conference starts TODAY with an amazing Keynote from the brilliant Emilie Waggoner !! Stop by Panel Room 411 at 10am to hear how anime goes to college!

So excited to announce the conference program is LIVE for JAMS@AX! If you will be at Anime Expo, be sure to come and see these amazing scholars!

It's not every day your university writes a whole news article about you, nor every day that they include a picture of you, your mom, and your grandma from the 2014 Anime Boston Death Match! So honored to have been highlighted by Indiana University! news.iu.edu/live/news/45...

Hello! I'm in this!

In 2019, I was a panicked graduate student wondering if I'd ever get anywhere at all researching anime. In 2025, I'm a faculty member on a funded trip to Kyoto about to present my research on anime internationally. Life is very good, I'm very grateful.

What benefit is there to Crunchyroll to cut off libraries? In this political climate, it's a pretty awful PR choice and yet another way of booting the medium's target demo. Anime fans start young and they don't have credit cards. www.reddit.com/r/librarians...

Coop Bicknell interviewed librarians across the country about how the latest Executive Orders and lists targeting LGBTQ+ are affecting students' ability to read age-appropriate comics.

I'm honored to be named a Library Journal "Mover and Shaker" for my work on #anime ! Founding the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies @animestudies.bsky.social and the JAMS@AX Conference at Anime Expo have meant the world to me, and I'm overjoyed at this honor! www.libraryjournal.com/story/billy-...

I had the most incredible time presenting my "Anime Convention Attendee" data at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference! I'm eager to see this year's data, but we need a lot more responses - take it today if you can! go.iu.edu/animesurvey

Looking for people who attend anime cons! If you… ● Are 18 years of age or older ● Live in the United States ● Attend anime cons ... then we would love to hear from you! Click here go.iu.edu/animesurvey to learn more and to begin the Anime Conventions Survey 2025!

There's a very bad place reserved for authors who send emails with a dozen questions about a publication, only to submit a fully AI-generated paper...

Do you want to present your scholarship at Anime Expo? The JAMS@AX Symposium is BACK for our THIRD year at Anime Expo! Our speakers have included NASA scientists, music scholars, and more! Find our CFP here - Submissions are open through April 7th! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

Reboosting this! Thank you to everyone who has shared! We're getting some amazing and useful data!!

Do you want to present your scholarship at Anime Expo? The JAMS@AX Symposium is BACK for our THIRD year at Anime Expo! Our speakers have included NASA scientists, music scholars, and more! Find our CFP here - Submissions are open through April 7th! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

Looking for people who attend anime cons! If you… ● Are 18 years of age or older ● Live in the United States ● Attend anime cons ... then we would love to hear from you! Click here go.iu.edu/animesurvey to learn more and to begin the Anime Conventions Survey 2025!

The Japan Foundation is hosting another amazing webinar on Dragon Ball Z! 📢Dragon Ball: How Black and Latin American Fans Found Themselves in This Anime 🗓️Tue, March 4, 7 pm ET Register here for this exciting lecture: jfny-popculture-ep20.eventbrite.com #anime #dragonball

I think the funniest and most upsetting part of being sent JAMS' created and swiftly deleted Wikipedia page is the argument about who the "alleged" founder is. Mr. Wikipedia I was literally interviewed by Crunchyroll News about it. I open every issue. Why am I a cryptid.

Do you study #anime, #manga, #cosplay, or their fandoms? The Call for Papers for JAMS Volume 6 is LIVE! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/... JAMS is full #open-access, and Volume 6 will be published in December 2025!

It's incredibly gauche to begin the year experiencing sonder over people reposting skeletons, but people 100 years ago drew pictures of bones doing a silly dance, and a century later share them with people we've never met Animation will always transcend place and time, and always pull people closer

My baby is five years old!!

WELCOME TO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, SKELETON DANCE!! THIS IS THE YEAR TO GET SPOOKY!!!

happy 20 years

Welcome to the public domain, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (1929), the unforgettable jazz standard by Fats Waller, later inspiring a Tony-winning Broadway revue. 🎼🎷🎤 Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025

I love seeing all the discussion around Nosferatu - and I just had my piece on it published in "Teaching the Vampire" two days ago! What's fascinating about all the coverage of its copyright, is that it comes from one source (1/4) scholarblogs.emory.edu/vampires/ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The culmination of all my team's hard work went up today! Please give it a read/discuss/argue/what have you! 4nn.cx/.219015 At least now we get to take a much needed brea— JK, Preview Guide launches on Wednesday.

I would rather be put in a Saw trap.

This is brutal.

Japan Past & Present is pleased to announce the selection of four outstanding professionals to serve on our inaugural Library Services Team! ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼント（JPP）は、図書館サービス・チームの第１期メンバーとして、４名の優秀な専門家を選出しました！ 🎉 japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/anno...

Excited to be working with @risahatanaka.bsky.social, Nobu, @resplendentluck.bsky.social, and @billytringali.bsky.social! 🥳

My baby is five years old!!

Finally made one of my own today.

Call for applications reminder—there are 10 days left to submit your application to become the next editor of Education About Asia! All materials are due by December 20, with interviews to follow in January. https://buff.ly/3ARllaj

Head into the forums to nominate Best Villain, Best Anime OST, Leading Man, Leading Lady, and Most Underrated Anime Series of the Year!

JAMS Volume FIVE will be out soon! To celebrate, I wanted to share some history of the journal, highlighting how JAMS got started! "I want scholarship about anime and manga to be accessible to everyone..JAMS is the action taken to help achieve this goal." doi.org/10.21900/j.j...