Marco Pellitteri is associate professor of Media and Communication at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. He is the author of several monographs, among which The Dragon and the Dazzle (2010), Mazinga Nostalgia (1999; 4th revised edition 2018), and I manga. Introduzione al fumetto giapponese (‘Manga: An introduction to Japanese comics’, 2021); with H.-w. Wong, he is the editor of Japanese Animation in Asia: Transnational Industry, Audiences, and Success (2021).