WAR/TIME VOL. #4

Preface: War/Time
Thomas LaMarre


Legacies of Sovereignty
The Filmic Time of Coloniality:
On Shinkai Makoto’s The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Gavin Walker

Theorizing Manga:
Nationalism and Discourse on the Role of Wartime Manga
Rei Okamoto Inouye

Transcending the Victim’s History:
Takahata Isao’s Grave of the Fireflies
Wendy Goldberg


Control Room
Gothic Politics: Oshii, War, and Life without Death
Tom Looser

Oshii Mamoru’s Patlabor 2:
Terror, Theatricality, and Exceptions That Prove the Rule
Mark Anderson

Waiting for the Messiah:
The Becoming-Myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko
Christophe Thouny

War by Metaphor in Densha otoko
Michael Fisch


History/Memory
Imagined History, Fading Memory:
Mastering Narrative in Final Fantasy X
Dennis Washburn

Haunted Travelogue:
Hometowns, Ghost Towns, and Memories of War
Michael Dylan Foster

Three Views of the Rising Sun, Obliquely:
Keiji Nakazawa’s A-bomb, Osamu Tezuka’s Adolf, and
Yoshinori Kobayashi’s Apologia
Sheng-mei Ma

Virtual Creation, Simulated Destruction, and Manufactured Memory
at the Art Mecho Museum in Second Life
Christopher Bolton


Genre Violence
Ninja, Hidden Christians, and the Two Ferreiras:
On Endô Shûsaku and Yamada Fûtarô
Takayuki Tatsumi
Translated by Seth Jacobowitz

Monsters at War: The Great Yôkai Wars, 1968-2005
Zília Papp

From Jusuheru to Jannu:
Girl Knights and Christian Witches in the Work of Miuchi Suzue
Rebecca Suter


Mobilization/Domestication
Empire through the Eyes of a Yapoo:
Male Abjection in the Cult Classic Beast Yapoo
Christine Marran

Nippon ex Machina:
Japanese Postwar Identity in Robot Anime and the Case of
UFO Robo Grendizer
Marco Pellitteri

Kobayashi Yoshinori Is Dead:
Imperial War/Sick Liberal Peace/Neoliberal Class War
Mark Driscoll

Manga: A Comic Interlude from Darumasan-ga-koronda,
“Land Mine in Central Park”
Yoji Sakate
Translated by Manami Shima
Art by Chinami Sango


Review and Commentary
Two Phases of Japanese Illustrated Fiction
Charles Shiro Inouye

Paradise Lost…and Found?
Paul Jackson

Molten Hot: Japanese Gal Subcultures and Fashions
Theresa M. Winge

Monstrous Toys of Capitalism
Brent Allison

If Casshern Doesn’t Do It, Who Will?
Deborah Shamoon

Psychoanalytic Cyberpunk Midsummer Night’s Dreamtime:
Kon Satoshi’s Paprika
Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog

トレンド Torendo
Interview with Murase Shûkô and Satô Dai
Deborah Scally, Angela Drummond-Matthews, and Marc Hairston
(Translated by Chelsea Colin and Watanabe Yuki)