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A journey through the ‘Hosoda sphere’: digital worlds in Mamoru Hosoda’s animationAnime director Mamoru Hosoda’s focus on digital technology, social networks, and the power of online communities is a recurring thematic and visual motif in many of his works, beginning with the fo...www.tandfonline.com