Italy has long been an enthusiastic market for contemporary Japanese pop culture. Anime was first imported in the late 1970s and has since become a cultural sensation with generational impact.
¡°At an early age, I was already watching anime every day,¡± says translator Simona Stanzani, recalling the wave of Japanese media that transformed her youth.
Stanzani is a leading translator of manga into both Italian and English, and has worked on major titles including ¡°Jojo¡¯s Bizarre Adventure,¡± ¡°Chainsaw Man¡± and ¡°Spy ¡Á Family,¡± in addition to subtitling films such as Akira Kurosawa¡¯s ¡°The Seven Samurai.¡±?
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