• Order Mechademia

    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



  • CURRENT ISSUE

    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