Editorial

This editorial is an overview of this edition of the Journal of East Asian Popular Culture. The issue features four articles on Japanese manga. These illuminate how Japanese popular media negotiates identity, myth and resistance to convention, analysing the titles Omegaverse, Fullmetal Alchemist, Chainsaw Man and Kamen Rider Black Sun. Three further articles examine aspects of the transnational circulation of East Asian popular culture, specifically K-drama fandom in Indonesia, K-pop and Japanese visual kei in Chile and the Blackpink concert in post-pandemic Hong Kong. Each of these articles highlights how the circulation of popular culture shapes and is shaped by the political context of these various societies. The book reviews section features commentary on recently published works on comics in Taiwan, Chinese cinema and Japanese television.