MECHADEMIA: “NETWORKS OF DESIRE” VOL. #2 

Due out in fall of 2007

GRRRL少女／Shôjo
Revolutionary Romance: The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shôjo Manga
Deborah Shamoon

Shôjo Manga! Girls’ Comics!: A Mirror of Girls’ Dreams
Masami Toku

Ranma Fan Fiction Writers: New Narrative Themes or The Same Old Story?
Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila

Doll Beauties and Cosplay
Mari Kotani
Translated by Thomas Lamarre

A Japanese Electra and her Queer Progeny
Keith Vincent

時間性 / Powers of time

Thieves of Baghdad:
Transnational Networks of Cinema/Anime in the 1920s
Daisuke Miyao

When Pacifist Japan Fights:
Historicizing Desires in Anime
Hiromi Mizuno

The Quick and the Undead:
Visual and Political Dynamics in Blood:
The Last Vampire
Christopher Bolton

Bridges of the Unknown: Visual Desires and Small Apocalypses
Photography and text by Eron Rauch, designed by Marantha Wilson

動物化 / Animalization

Malice@Doll:
Konaka, Specularization, and the Virtual Feminine
Margherita Long

The Animalization of Otaku Culture
Azuma Hiroki
Translated by Yuriko Furuhata and Marc Steinberg

Sex and the Single Pig:
Desire and Flight in Porco Rosso
Patrick Drazen

The Education of Desire:
Futari etchi and the Globalization of Sexual Tolerance
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
Mariana Ortega

希望 / Horizons

Fly Away Old Home:
Memory and Salvation in Haibane-Renmai
Marc Hairston

In the World That Is Infinitely Inclusive:
Four Theses on Voices of a Distant Star
and The Wings of Honneamise
Shu Kuge

Between the Child and the Mecha
Frenchy Lunning


Review and Commentary

Godzilla’s Children:
Murakami Takes Manhattan
William Benzon

Anime: Comparing Macro and Micro Analyses
Brent Allison

Crazy Rabbit Man: Why I Rewrite Manga
Trina Robbins

Brain-Diving Batou
Brian Ruh

Lurkers at the Threshold: Saya and the Nature of Evil
Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog

Torendo
Michelle Ollie

UAAAAA! Trashkultur! An Interview with MAK’s Johannes Wieninger
Christopher Bolton