Mechademia 5: Fanthropologies

Introduction

Frenchy Lunning

Sites of Transposition

The Art of Cute Little Things: Nara Yoshitomo’s Parapolitics
Marilyn Ivy

Transforming U.S. Anime in the 1980s: Localization and Longevity
Brian Ruh

Speciesism, Part II: Tezuka Osamu and the Multispecies Ideal
Thomas LaMarre

Undoing Inter-national Fandom in the Age of Brand Nationalism
Koichi Iwabuchi

Patterns of Consumption

World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative
Ōtsuka Eiji
Translated and with an introduction by Marc Steinberg

Frenchness and Transformation in Japanese Subculture, 1974-2000
Anne McKnight

Monstrous Media and Delusional Consumption
in Kon Satoshi’s Paranoia Agent
Gerald Figal

Lucid Dreams, False Awakenings: Figures of the Fan in Kon Satoshi
Kerin Ogg

A Cosplay Photography Sampler
Eron Rauch and Christopher Bolton

Modes of Circulation

Dark Energy: What Fansubs Reveal about the Copyright Wars
Ian Condry

Akihabara: Conditioning a Public “Otaku” Image
Patrick W. Galbraith

Comic Market: How the World’s Biggest Amateur Comic Fair
Shaped Japanese Dōjinshi Culture
Fan-Yi Lam

Styles of Intervention

Suffering Forces Us to Think Beyond the Right-Left Barrier
Amamiya Karin
Translated and with an introduction by Jodie Beck

Fans Behaving Badly:
Anime Metafandom, Brutal Criticism, and the Intellectual Fan
Kathryn Dunlap and Carissa Wolf

Anatomy of Permutational Desire:
Perversion in Hans Bellmer and Oshii Mamoru
Livia Monnet

A Cocoon with a View: Hikikomori, Otaku, and Welcome to the NHK
Marc Hairston

Reorganizations of Gender and Nationalism:
Gender Bashing and Loliconized Japanese Society
Naitō Chizuko
Translated by Nathan Shockey

Aeryn’s Dolls
Jin C. Tomshine

Review and Commentary

The Space Between Worlds: Mushishi
and Japanese Folklore/Paul Jackson

Animation Beyond the Boundaries/Susan Napier

Three Faces of Eva: Evangelion 1.01: You Are (Not) Alone
Cruel Angels? Cruel Fathers!/Paul M. Malone
Epic Fail: Still Dreary, After All These Years/Madeline Ashby
The Rebuild of Anime/Thomas LaMarre

Brief Visions of a Vast Landscape/Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog

Death Note: The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You/Susan Napier

トレンド Torendo

Otakuology: A Dialogue/Patrick W. Galbraith and Thomas LaMarre

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