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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 WalkerTheorizing Manga:
Nationalism and Discourse on the Role of Wartime Manga
Rei Okamoto InouyeTranscending the Victim’s History:
Takahata Isao’s Grave of the Fireflies
Wendy Goldberg
Control Room
Gothic Politics: Oshii, War, and Life without Death
Tom LooserOshii Mamoru’s Patlabor 2:
Terror, Theatricality, and Exceptions That Prove the Rule
Mark AndersonWaiting for the Messiah:
The Becoming-Myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko
Christophe ThounyWar by Metaphor in Densha otoko
Michael Fisch
History/Memory
Imagined History, Fading Memory:
Mastering Narrative in Final Fantasy X
Dennis WashburnHaunted Travelogue:
Hometowns, Ghost Towns, and Memories of War
Michael Dylan FosterThree Views of the Rising Sun, Obliquely:
Keiji Nakazawa’s A-bomb, Osamu Tezuka’s Adolf, and
Yoshinori Kobayashi’s Apologia
Sheng-mei MaVirtual 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 JacobowitzMonsters at War: The Great Yôkai Wars, 1968-2005
Zília PappFrom 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 MarranNippon ex Machina:
Japanese Postwar Identity in Robot Anime and the Case of
UFO Robo Grendizer
Marco PellitteriKobayashi Yoshinori Is Dead:
Imperial War/Sick Liberal Peace/Neoliberal Class War
Mark DriscollManga: 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 InouyeParadise Lost…and Found?
Paul JacksonMolten Hot: Japanese Gal Subcultures and Fashions
Theresa M. WingeMonstrous Toys of Capitalism
Brent AllisonIf Casshern Doesn’t Do It, Who Will?
Deborah ShamoonPsychoanalytic 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 3: Limits of the Human
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