Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire

GRRRL少女／Shôjo
“Revolutionary Romance: The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shôjo Manga” by Deborah Shamoon; “Shôjo Manga! Girls’ Comics!: A Mirror of Girls’ Dreams” by Masami Toku; “Ranma ½ Fan Fiction Writers: New Narrative Themes or the Same Old Story?” by Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila; “Doll Beauties and Cosplay” by Mari Kotani, translated by Thomas Lamarre; “A Japanese Electra and her Queer Progeny” by Keith Vincent.

時間性 / Powers of time
“Thieves of Baghdad: Transnational Networks of Cinema/Anime in the 1920s” by Daisuke Miyao; “When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime” by Hiromi Mizuno; “The Quick and the Undead: Visual and Political Dynamics inBlood: The Last Vampire” by Christopher Bolton; “Bridges of the Unknown: Visual Desires and Small Apocalypses” by Eron Rauch (photography and text), designed by Marantha Wilson.

動物化 / Animalization
“Malice@Doll: Konaka, Specularization, and the Virtual Feminine” by Margherita Long; “The Animalization of Otaku Culture” by Azuma Hiroki, translated by Yuriko Furuhata and Marc Steinberg; “Sex and the Single Pig: Desire and Flight in Porco Rosso” by Patrick Drazen; “The Education of Desire: Futari etchi and the Globalization of Sexual Tolerance” by Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog; “My Father, He Killed Me; My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion” by Mariana Ortega.

希望 / Horizons
“Fly Away Old Home: Memory and Salvation in Haibane-Renmei” by Marc Hairston; “In the World That Is Infinitely Inclusive: Four Theses on Voices of a Distant Star and The Wings of Honneamise” by Shu Kuge; “Between the Child and the Mecha” by Frenchy Lunning.

Review and Commentary
“Godzilla’s Children: Murakami Takes Manhattan” by William Benzon; “Anime: Comparing Macro and Micro Analyses” by Brent Allison; “Crazy Rabbit Man: Why I Rewrite Manga” by Trina Robbins; “Brain-Diving Batou” by Brian Ruh; “Lurkers at the Threshold: Saya and the Nature of Evil” by Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog.

トレンド Torendo
“UAAAAA! Trashkultur! An Interview with MAK’s Johannes Wieninger” by Christopher Bolton.