A book review by Zibi Huang for Elena Giannoulis’s and Lukas R. A. Wilde’s Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age in which I have published “From Digital to Analog: Kaomoji on the Votive Tablets of an Anime Pilgrimage”. My article focuses on the Higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni (ひぐらしのなく頃に) fan tablets.
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