I read this and I thought, Yes

[ahorbinski]

Second, because a broader interest in manga and anime history is relatively recent, and because histories to date have often been rather informal, the histories of manga and animation in Japan have tended to rely on and to reproduce the entrenched paradigms for understanding Japanese history, rather than considering how materials such as manga and animations might allow us to rethink how we approach Japanese history or to invent new historical paradigms.

--Thomas Lamarre, "Speciesism, Part II: Tezuka Osamu and the Multispecies Ideal" (53)

This is my larger goal for my dissertation in a nutshell.