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    MECHADEMIA: “THE WORLDS OF ANIME AND MANGA” VOL. #1 

    Our publisher, University of Minnesota Press, is now taking orders for Mechademia Vol. 1 & 2:
    Mechademia: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga, Vol. #1
    Mechademia: Networks of Desire, Vol. #2


    “Anifesto”
    Written by Christopher Bolton and Frenchy Lunning
     Illustrated by Sarah Pocock
     

    MECHADEMIA ESSAYS
     
    “The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism”
    Anne Allison
     
    “Globalizing Manga: From Japan to Hong Kong and Beyond”
    Wendy Siuyi Wong
     
    “The World of Anime Fandom in America”
    Susan Napier
     
    “Costuming the Imagination: Origins of Anime and Manga Cosplay”
    Theresa Winge
     
    “Assessing Interactivity in Video Game Design”
    Mark J.P. Wolf
     
    “Mori Minoru’s Day of Resurrection”
    Introduced by Takayuki Tatsumi, translated by Christopher Bolton
     
    “Superflat and the Layers of Image and History in 1990’s Japan”
    Thomas Looser
     
    Kurenai no Metalsuits, “Anime to wa nani ka/What is animation”
    Ueno Toshiya, translated by Michael Arnold
     
    “Anime: The Multiplanar Image.”
    Thomas Lamarre
     
    “The Werewolf in the Crested Kimono: The Wolf-Human Dynamic in Anime and Manga”
    Antonia Levi

    “Metamorphosis of the Japanese Girl: The Girl, the Hyper-Girl, and the Fighting Beauty”
    Mari Kotani
     
     Revolutionary Girl Utena: Manga and Anime Citations
    Compiled by Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog
     



    REVIEW & COMMENTARY
     
    Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog -  editors
                           
    “Metropolis”
    Bill Benzon
     
    “Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society.”
    By Kinsella, Sharon
    Vern Bullough
               
    “Mobile Suit Gundam”
    By Yoshiyuki Tomino, translated by Fred Schodt
    Patrick Drazen
               
    “Maria-Sama ga Miteru,” and  “Azumanga Daioh.”
    Marc Hairston
               
    “Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics.”
    By Paul Gravett, and “Watching Anime, Reading Manga : 25 Years of
    Essays and Reviews” by Fred Patten
    Brian Ruh
                                                                           
    “Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena.”
    Saito Chiho
    Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog

    トレンド TORENDO
    By Michelle Ollie


    Please see our call for papers for more details on future issues.