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Table of Contents

Preface: War/Time

Thomas LaMarre
pp. ix-xiv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0070
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Legacies of Sovereignty

The Filmic Time of Coloniality: On Shinkai Makoto’s The Place Promised in Our Early Days

Gavin Walker
pp. 3-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0082
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Theorizing Manga: Nationalism and Discourse on the Role of Wartime Manga

Rei Okamoto Inouye
pp. 20-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0093
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Transcending the Victim’s History: Takahata Isao’s Grave of the Fireflies

Wendy Goldberg
pp. 39-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0030
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Control Room

Gothic Politics: Oshii, War, and Life without Death

Tom Looser
pp. 55-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0041
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Oshii Mamoru’s Patlabor 2: Terror, Theatricality, and Exceptions That Prove the Rule

Mark Anderson
pp. 75-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0053
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Waiting for the Messiah: The Becoming-Myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko

Christophe Thouny
pp. 111-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0066
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War by Metaphor in Densha otoko

Michael Fisch
pp. 131-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0078
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History/Memory

Imagined History, Fading Memory: Mastering Narrative in Final Fantasy X

Dennis Washburn
pp. 149-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0089
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Haunted Travelogue: Hometowns, Ghost Towns, and Memories of War

Michael Dylan Foster
pp. 164-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0026
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Three Views of the Rising Sun, Obliquely: Keiji Nakazawa’s A-bomb, Osamu Tezuka’s Adolf, and Yoshinori Kobayashi’s Apologia

Sheng-Mei Ma
pp. 183-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0037
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Virtual Creation, Simulated Destruction, and Manufactured Memory at the Art Mecho Museum in Second Life

Christopher Bolton
pp. 198-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0049
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Genre Violence

Ninja, Hidden Christians, and the Two Ferreiras: On Endō Shūsaku and Yamada Fūtarō

Takayuki Tatsumi, Seth Jacobowitz
pp. 213-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0061
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Monsters at War: The Great Yōkai Wars, 1968–2005

Zília Papp
pp. 225-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0073
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From Jusuheru to Jannu: Girl Knights and Christian Witches in the Work of Miuchi Suzue

Rebecca Suter
pp. 241-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0085
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Mobilization/Domestication

Empire through the Eyes of a Yapoo: Male Abjection in the Cult Classic Beast Yapoo

Christine Marran
pp. 259-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0096
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Nippon ex Machina: Japanese Postwar Identity in Robot Anime and the Case of UFO Robo Grendizer

Marco Pellitteri
pp. 275-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0033
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Kobayashi Yoshinori Is Dead: Imperial War / Sick Liberal Peace / Neoliberal Class War

Mark Driscoll
pp. 290-303
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0044
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Manga: A Comic Interlude from Darumasan-ga-koronda, “Land Mine in Central Park”

Yoji Sakate, Manami Shima, Chinami Sango
pp. 305-312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0056
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Review and Commentary

Two Phases of Japanese Illustrated Fiction

Charles Shiro Inouye
pp. 313-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0068
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Paradise Lost . . . and Found?

Paul Jackson
pp. 315-318
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0080
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Molten Hot: Japanese Gal Subcultures and Fashions

Theresa M. Winge
pp. 318-321
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0091
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Monstrous Toys of Capitalism

Brent Allison
pp. 321-323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0028
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If Casshern Doesn’t Do It, Who Will?

Deborah Shamoon
pp. 323-326
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0039
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Psychoanalytic Cyberpunk Midsummer-Night’s Dreamtime: Kon Satoshi’s Paprika

Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog
pp. 326-329
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0051
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Interview with Murase Shūkō and Satō Dai

Deborah Scally, Angela Drummond-Mathews, Marc Hairston
pp. 329-334
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0064
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Contributors

Contributors

pp. 335-337
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0076
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