Abstract
The two previous chapters focused on celebrities in European cycling. In contrast, this final chapter of the section explores fictional cyclists in the popular Japanese manga series Yowamushi Pedal. The series depicts the adventures of a fictional adolescent schoolboy, Onoda Sakamichi, and his friends and rivals, who are engaged in an inter-high school road race competition in Japan. The way the fictional identities within the comic book series are evoked builds on very similar resources to those explored in earlier chapters. However, this chapter offers a preliminary functional analysis of verbal and visual resources in manga as well as an account of how these resources are integrated into the narrative.
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Kiernan, P. (2018). Multimodality Identity in Manga: Yowamushi Pedal and the Semiotics of Japanese Comics. In: Language, Identity and Cycling in the New Media Age. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51951-1_4
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