Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human
“Preface: The Limits of the Human” by Frenchy Lunning; “Introduction: The Limits of ‘The Limits of the Human’” by Christopher Bolton.
人間に Contours–Around the Human
“Refiguring the Human” by Mark C. Taylor; “The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru” by Michael Dylan Foster; “Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard” by Laura Miller; “Undressing and Dressing Loli: A Search for the Identity of the Japanese Lolita” by Theresa Winge; “Manga: Komatopia” by Natsume Fusanosuke, translated by Margherita Long with an introduction by Hajime Nakatani.
人間と Companions–With the Human
“Speciesism, Part One: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation” by Thomas LaMarre; “Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu’s Works” by Yomoto Inuhiko, translated and introduced by Hajime Nakatani; “Disarming Atom: Tezuka Osamu’s Manga at War and Peace” by Ôtsuka Eiji, translated by Thomas Lamarre; “States of Emergency: Urban Space and the Robotic Body in the Metropolis Tales” by Lawrence Bird; “Emotional Infectivity: Cyborg Affect and the Limits of the Human” by Sharalyn Orbaugh; “Manga: The Signal of Noise”, written and adapted by Adèle-Elise Prévost and illustrated by Musebasement.
人間で Compossibles–Of the Human
“Gundam and the Future of Japanoid Art” by Takayuki Tatsumi,t ranslated and with a response by Christopher Bolton; “Pop Culture Icons: Religious Inflections of the Character Toy in Taiwan” by Teri Silvio; “Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer’s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence” by Steven J. Brown.
“Postcript: On ‘The Living’” by Cary Wolfe.
Review and Commentary
“A Healing, Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama kaidashi kikô” by Marc Hairston; “Lost in Transition: Train Men and Dolls in Millennial Japan” by Susan Napier; “Howl’s Moving Castle” by Antonia Levi; “Playing Outside the Box with Mind Game” by Paul Jackson; “From Transnationalization to Globalization: The Experience of Hong Kong” by Wendy Siuyi Wong; ”’Always Exoticize!’ Cyborg Identities and the Challenge of the Nonhuman in Full Metal Apache” by Joshua Paul Dale; “Postmodern Is Old Hat: Samurai Champloo” by William L. Benzon.
トレンド Torendo
“Giant Robots and Superheroes: Manifestations of Divine Power, East and West – An Interview with Crispin Freeman” by Frenchy Lunning.
