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An annotated bibliography of the Mechademia journal.

Volumes typically include an introduction, groups of essays, a review and commentary section, and "Torendo" - an interview section.

Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga (2006)

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No. Title Release date ISBN
01Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and MangaDecember 22, 2006[1][[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-4945-7%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-00000001-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-4945-7[2]]] Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
  • Anifesto[n 1]
    • Written by Christopher Bolton and Frenchy Lunning, Illustrated by Sara Pocock
  • The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism
  • Globalizing Manga: From Japan to Hong Kong and Beyond
    • Wendy Siuyi Wong
  • The World of Anime Fandom in America
  • 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
  • Superflat and the Layers of Image and History in 1990s Japan
    • Thomas Looser
  • Kurenai no metalsuits, “Anime to wa nani ka/What is animation”
    • Ueno Toshiya - Translated by Michael Arnold
  • 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
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena: Manga and Anime Citations
    • Compiled by Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog

Review and Commentary

Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire (2007)

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02Mechademia 2: Networks of DesireDecember 26, 2007[3][[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-5266-2%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-00000007-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-5266-2[4]]] Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
  • Introduction: Art Mecho
    • Frenchy Lunning and Thomas LaMarre
  • (GRRRL) Shojo
    • Shojo Manga! Girls’ Comics! A Mirror of Girls’ Dreams
      • Masami Toku
    • Ranma 1/2 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[n 3]
      • Keith Vincent
  • Powers of Time
    • Thieves of Baghdad: Transnational Networks of Cinema and Anime in the 1920s
      • Daisuke Miyao
    • When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime
      • Hiromi Mizuno
    • Bridges of the Unknown: Visual Desires and Small Apocalypses
      • Eron Rauch
  • 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
  • Horizons
    • Fly Away Old Home: Memory and Salvation in Haibane-Renmei
      • Marc Hairston
    • Between the Child and the Mecha
      • Frenchy Lunning
  • Review and Commentary
    • Godzilla’s Children: Murakami Takes Manhattan
      • William L. 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

Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human (2008)

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03Mechademia 3: Limits of the HumanNovember 5, 2008[5][[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-5482-6%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-0000000B-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-5482-6[6]]] Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
  • Preface: The Limits of the Human
    • Frenchy Lunning
  • Introduction: The Limits of “The Limits of the Human”
    • Christopher Bolton
  • Contours—Around the Human
    • Refiguring the Human
      • Mark C. Taylor
    • The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru
      • Michael Dylan Foster
    • Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard
      • Laura Miller
    • Undressing and Dressing Loli: A Search for the Identity of the Japanese Lolita
      • Theresa Winge
  • Companions—With the Human
    • Speciesism, Part One: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation
      • Thomas LaMarre
    • Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu’s Works
***Yomota Inuhiko  - Translated and introduced by Hajime Nakatani
    • Disarming Atom: Tezuka Osamu’s Manga at War and Peace
***Ôtsuka Eiji - Translated by Thomas LaMarre
    • States of Emergency: Urban Space and the Robotic Body in the Metropolis Tales
      • Lawrence Bird
    • Emotional Infectivity: Cyborg Affect and the Limits of the Human
      • Sharalyn Orbaugh
  • Manga: The Signal of Noise[n 5]
    • Written and adapted by Adèle-Elise Prévost, Illustrated by MUSEbasement
  • Compossibles—Of the Human
    • Gundam and the Future of Japanoid Art
      • Takayuki Tatsumi - Translated and with a response by Christopher Bolton
    • Pop Culture Icons: Religious Inflections of the Character Toy in Taiwan
***Teri Silvio
    • Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer’s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
***Steven T. Brown

Postscript: On “The Living”

           Cary Wolfe

Review and Commentary

A Healing, Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama kaidashi kiko

           Marc Hairston

Commentary. Lost in Transition: Train Men and Dolls in Millennial Japan

           Susan Napier

Howl’s Moving Castle

           Antonia Levi

Playing Outside the Box with Mind Game

           Paul Jackson

From Transnationalization to Globalization: The Experience of Hong Kong

           Wendy Siuyi Wong

“Always Exoticize!” Cyborg Identities and the Challenge of the Nonhuman in Full Metal Apache[n 6]

           Joshua Paul Dale

Postmodern Is Old Hat: Samurai Champloo

           William L. Benzon
  • Torendo
    • Giant Robots and Superheroes: Manifestations of Divine Power, East and West, An Interview with Crispin Freeman
      • Frenchy Lunning

Mechademia 4: War/Time (2009)

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04Mechademia 4: War/TimeNovember 11, 2009[7][[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-6749-9%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-00000011-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-6749-9[8]]] Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character

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


Torendo

Interview with Murase Shûkô and Satô Dai

Deborah Scally, Angela Drummond-Mathews, and Marc Hairston

Mechademia 5: Fanthropologies (2010)

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05Mechademia 5: FanthropologiesNovember 9 2010[9][[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-7387-2%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-00000014-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-7387-2[10]]] Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
  • Introduction
    • Frenchy Lunning
*Sites of Transposition
    • The Art of Cute Little Things: Nara Yoshitomo’s Parapolitics
      • Marilyn Ivy
    • Transforming U.S. Anime in the 1980s: Localization and Longevity
      • Brian Ruh
    • Speciesism, Part II: Tezuka Osamu and the Multispecies Ideal
      • Thomas Lamarre
    • Undoing Inter-national Fandom in the Age of Brand Nationalism
      • Koichi Iwabuchi
  • Patterns of Consumption
    • World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative
      • Ôtsuka Eiji - Translated and with an Introduction by Marc Steinberg
    • Frenchness and Transformation in Japanese Subculture, 1972–2004
      • Anne McKnight
    • Monstrous Media and Delusional Consumption in Kon Satoshi’s Paranoia Agent
      • Gerald Figal
    • Lucid Dreams, False Awakenings: Figures of the Fan in Kon Satoshi
      • Kerin Ogg
  • A Cosplay Photography Sampler
    • Eron Rauch and Christopher Bolton
  • Modes of Circulation
    • Dark Energy: What Fansubs Reveal about the Copyright Wars
           Ian Condry 

Akihabara: Conditioning a Public Otaku Image

           Patrick W. Galbraith 

Comic Market: How the World’s Biggest Amateur Comic Fair Shaped Japanese Dôjinshi Culture

           Fan-Yi Lam


Styles of Intervention

Suffering Forces Us to Think beyond the Right–Left Barrier

           Amamiya Karin - Translated and with an Introduction by Jodie Beck

Fans Behaving Badly: Anime Metafandom, Brutal Criticism, and the Intellectual Fan

           Kathryn Dunlap and Carissa Wolf

Anatomy of Permutational Desire: Perversion in Hans Bellmer and Oshii Mamoru

           Livia Monnet

A Cocoon with a View: Hikikomori, Otaku, and Welcome to the NHK

           Marc Hairston

Reorganizations of Gender and Nationalism: Gender Bashing and Loliconized Japanese Society

           Naitô Chizuko
           Translated by Nathan Shockey


Aeryn’s Dolls

           Jin C. Tomshine


Review and Commentary

The Space between Worlds: Mushishi and Japanese Folklore

           Paul Jackson

Animation beyond the Boundaries

           Susan Napier

Three Faces of Eva: Evangelion 1.01: You Are (Not) Alone

           Cruel Angels? Cruel Fathers! 
                       Paul M. Malone
           Epic Fail: Still Dreary, after All These Years
                       Madeline Ashby
           The Rebuild of Anime
                       Thomas Lamarre

Brief Visions of a Vast Landscape

           Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog

Death Note: The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You

           Susan Napier


???? Torendo

Otakuology: A Dialogue

Patrick W. Galbraith and Thomas Lamarre

Mechademia 6: User Enhancement (2011)

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No. Title Release date ISBN
06Mechademia 6: User EnhancementFall 2011[11]
  • Introduction
    • Thomas Lamarre
  • Countering Domestication
    • Under the Ruffles: Shôjo and the Morphology of Power
      • Frenchy Lunning
    • Girliness Is Next to Godliness: Lolita Fandom as Sacred Criminality in the Novels of Takemoto Novala
      • Brian Bergstrom
    • Beyond Domesticating Animal Love
      • Christine L. Marran
    • Exploited and Mobilized: Poverty and Work in Contemporary Manga
      • Matthew Penney
  • Commodity-Life
    • Tezuka Is Dead: Manga in Transformation and Its Dysfunctional Discourse
      • Itô Gô - Translated and with an Introduction by Miri Nakamura
    • How Characters Stand Out
      • Miyamoto Hirohito - Translated by Thomas Lamarre
    • Manga Translation and Interculture
      • Cathy Sell
    • Speciesism Part 3: Neoteny and the Politics of Life
      • Thomas Lamarre
  • Photo Play
    • Out of the Closet: The Fancy Phenomenon
      • Photography by Rio Saitô
      • Introduction by Frenchy Lunning
  • Desiring Economies
    • Anatomy of Permutational Desire, Part 2: Bellmer's Dolls and Oshii's Gynoids
      • Livia Monnet
    • Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women’s Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan
      • Kumiko Saito
    • The Sacrificial Economy of Cuteness in Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
      • Emily Raine
    • Flower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shôjo Manga
      • James Welker
  • Untimely Effects
    • Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992
      • Miyadai Shinji - Translated by Shion Kono - With an Introduction by Thomas Lamarre
    • The Logic of Digital Gaming
      • Aden Evens
    • Tsuge Yoshiharu and Postwar Japan: Travel, Memory, and Nostalgia
      • Yoshikuni Igarashi
    • Implicational Spectatorship: Hara Setsuko and the Queer Joke
      • Yuka Kanno

Review and Commentary War for Entertainment: The Sky Crawlers Andrea Horbinski Volition in the Face of Absurdity Brian Ruh The Past Presents the Future: Toward the Terra Paul Jackson トレンド Torendo Wherein the Author Documents Her Experience as a Porcelain Doll

Lisa Blauersouth

Forthcoming

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No. Title Release date ISBN
07Mechademia 7: Lines of SightFall 2012[11]
08Mechademia 8: Tezuka Osamu: Manga Life[12]Fall 2013[11]

Notes

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  1. ^ A mission statement for Mechademia in manga format.
  2. ^ Author of OEL manga Peach Fuzz
  3. ^ About BL pioneer Mori Mari and Boys Love history, including the "yaoi debate".
  4. ^ An Understanding Comics-like essay on the evolution of the manga panel, in manga format.
  5. ^ An essay on Serial Experiments Lain in manga format.
  6. ^ A review of Takayuki Tatsumi's book Full Metal Apache.

References

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