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Archives
LIMITS OF THE HUMAN VOL. #3
“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.
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NETWORKS OF DESIRE VOL. #2
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 in Blood: 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.
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EMERGING WORLDS OF ANIME AND MANGA VOL. #1
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
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