• CURRENT VOLUME

    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

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    Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga
    Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire
    Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human
    Mechademia 4: War/Time