Rachel Thorn (formerly Matt Thorn; born May 12, 1965) is a cultural anthropologist and a faculty member at the Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Global Culture (in the Japanese Culture Course) in Japan. She is best known in North America for her work dealing with manga (Japanese comics for girls). She has appeared at multiple anime conventions, including Otakon 2004. She chose to translate manga into English after reading The Heart of Thomas by Moto Hagio in the mid-1980s. In March 2010, it was announced that Thorn would edit a line of manga co-published by Shogakukan and Fantagraphics. Bibliography The following credits are for translation unless otherwise noted. Most of the translation credits are as "Matt Thorn": 2001 Nights, by Yukinobu Hoshino A, A', by Moto Hagio AD Police, by Tony Takezaki Banana Fish, by Akimi Yoshida ( 1–4, translated with Yuji Oniki) Battle Angel Alita, by Yukito Kishiro Dance Till Tomorrow, by Naoki Yamamoto A Drunken Dream and Other Stories, by Moto Hagio (translator and editor) Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan, edited by William W. Kelly (anthology, one chapter by Thorn) Four Shōjo Stories, an anthology of manga by Keiko Nishi, Moto Hagio, and Shio Satō The Heart of Thomas, by Moto Hagio (translator and editor) The Legend of Kamui, by Sanpei Shirato Love Song, an anthology of short stories by Keiko Nishi Maison Ikkoku, by Rumiko Takahashi Mermaid Saga, by Rumiko Takahashi Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, by Hayao Miyazaki Otherworld Barbara, by Moto Hagio The Poe Clan, by Moto Hagio Project A-ko Red Blinds the Foolish, by Est Em Sanctuary, by Sho Fumimura and Ryoichi Ikegami Silent Möbius, by Kia Asamiya Striker: The Armored Warrior, by Hiroshi Takashige and Ryoji Minagawa Seduce Me After the Show, by Est Em (supervising translator) Wandering Son, by Takako Shimura References External links Anime and manga critics Cultural anthropologists American translators Living people 1965 births American expatriates in Japan American anthropologists Transgender women LGBT academics American women anthropologists LGBT anthropologists Japanese–English translators American expatriate academics American transgender writers