Marco Pellitteri is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Among his books, The Dragon and the Dazzle (Tunué 2008), Mazinga Nostalgia (1999, 4th ed. Tunué 2018, 2 vols.), and I manga (Carocci 2021); with H.-w. Wong edited Japanese Animation in Asia (Routledge 2021); he also edited The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation (Palgrave Macmillan 2024).