<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear KineJapanners,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In some recent reading, I came across the term "rajio manga." Is anyone familiar with what precisely this refers to?� The context of my reading was the weekly radio serial Saiyuuki (Journey to the West) ... better known in English as Monkey or Monkey Magic?�</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My question is when, how, and why this term "rajio manga" developed?�</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yours,</DIV><DIV>Jonathan</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">-----</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Jonathan M. Hall</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Japanese Film, Media, and Modern Literature</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature / Film & Media Studies</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; min-height: 12.0px; font-size: 10px; "><BR style="font-size: 10px; "></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">320 Humanities Instructional Building</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">UC Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-2651 USA</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">office: 1-949-824-9778</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">fax: 1-949-824-1992</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Co-Chair, Queer Caucus, Society for Cinema and Media Studies</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>