From The Globe and Mail:
Mizuko Ito is a Japanese cultural anthropologist who works at the University of California, Irvine as an in-residence professor. She sees adult interest in children’s media as “a site of resistance to adult values” …. “For adults, these images of childhood are a colorful escape from the dulling rhythms of salaried work and household labor.”

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