Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga

Essays
“Anifesto” by Christopher Bolton and Frenchy Lunning, illustrated by Sarah Pocock; “The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism” by Anne Allison; “Globalizing Manga: From Japan to Hong Kong and Beyond” by Wendy Siuyi Wong; “The World of Anime Fandom in America” by Susan Napier; “Costuming the Imagination: Origins of Anime and Manga Cosplay” by Theresa Winge; “Assessing Interactivity in Video Game Design” by Mark J. P. Wolf; “Mori Minoru’s Day of Resurrection” by Tatsumi Takayuki, translated by Christopher Bolton; “Superflat and the Layers of Image and History in 1990s Japan” by Thomas Looser; “Kurenai no metalsuits, ‘Anime to wa nani ka/What is animation’” by Ueno Toshiya, translated by Michael Arnold; “The Multiplanar Image” by Thomas Lamarre; “The Werewolf in the Crested Kimono: The Wolf-Human Dynamic in Anime and Manga” by Antonia Levi; “Metamorphosis of the Japanese Girl: The Girl, the Hyper-Girl, and the Fighting Beauty” by Mari Kotani; “Revolutionary Girl Utena: Manga and Anime Citations” compiled by Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog.

Review and Commentary
“The Song at the End of the World: Personal Apocalypse in Rintarô’s Metropolis” by Bill Benzon; “The Influence of Manga on Japan: Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society, by Sharon Kinsella” by Vern Bullough; “The Shock of the Newtype: The Mobile Suit Gundam Novels of Tomino Yoshiyuki” by Patrick Drazen; “The Yin and Yang of Schoolgirl Experiences: Maria-sama ga miteru and Azumanga Daioh” by Marc Hairston; “Historicizing Anime and Manga: From Japan to the World: Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics by Paul Gravett and Watching Anime, Reading Manga: Twenty-five Years of Essays and Reviews, by Fred Patten” by Brian Ruh; “In the Sound of the Bells: Freedom and Revolution in Revolutionary Girl Utena” by Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog.

トレンド Torendo
A Series of Interviews by Michelle Ollie