1. Preface: War/Time
  2. Thomas LaMarre
  3. pp. ix-xiv
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0070
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Legacies of Sovereignty

  1. The Filmic Time of Coloniality: On Shinkai Makoto’s The Place Promised in Our Early Days
  2. Gavin Walker
  3. pp. 3-18
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0082
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  1. Theorizing Manga: Nationalism and Discourse on the Role of Wartime Manga
  2. Rei Okamoto Inouye
  3. pp. 20-37
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0093
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  1. Transcending the Victim’s History: Takahata Isao’s Grave of the Fireflies
  2. Wendy Goldberg
  3. pp. 39-52
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0030
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Control Room

  1. Gothic Politics: Oshii, War, and Life without Death
  2. Tom Looser
  3. pp. 55-73
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0041
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  1. Oshii Mamoru’s Patlabor 2: Terror, Theatricality, and Exceptions That Prove the Rule
  2. Mark Anderson
  3. pp. 75-109
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0053
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  1. Waiting for the Messiah: The Becoming-Myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko
  2. Christophe Thouny
  3. pp. 111-129
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0066
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  1. War by Metaphor in Densha otoko
  2. Michael Fisch
  3. pp. 131-146
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0078
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History/Memory

  1. Imagined History, Fading Memory: Mastering Narrative in Final Fantasy X
  2. Dennis Washburn
  3. pp. 149-162
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0089
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  1. Haunted Travelogue: Hometowns, Ghost Towns, and Memories of War
  2. Michael Dylan Foster
  3. pp. 164-181
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0026
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  1. Three Views of the Rising Sun, Obliquely: Keiji Nakazawa’s A-bomb, Osamu Tezuka’s Adolf, and Yoshinori Kobayashi’s Apologia
  2. Sheng-Mei Ma
  3. pp. 183-196
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0037
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  1. Virtual Creation, Simulated Destruction, and Manufactured Memory at the Art Mecho Museum in Second Life
  2. Christopher Bolton
  3. pp. 198-210
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0049
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Genre Violence

  1. Ninja, Hidden Christians, and the Two Ferreiras: On Endō Shūsaku and Yamada Fūtarō
  2. Takayuki Tatsumi, Seth Jacobowitz
  3. pp. 213-223
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0061
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  1. Monsters at War: The Great Yōkai Wars, 1968–2005
  2. Zília Papp
  3. pp. 225-239
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0073
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  1. From Jusuheru to Jannu: Girl Knights and Christian Witches in the Work of Miuchi Suzue
  2. Rebecca Suter
  3. pp. 241-256
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0085
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Mobilization/Domestication

  1. Empire through the Eyes of a Yapoo: Male Abjection in the Cult Classic Beast Yapoo
  2. Christine Marran
  3. pp. 259-273
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0096
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  1. Nippon ex Machina: Japanese Postwar Identity in Robot Anime and the Case of UFO Robo Grendizer
  2. Marco Pellitteri
  3. pp. 275-288
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0033
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  1. Kobayashi Yoshinori Is Dead: Imperial War / Sick Liberal Peace / Neoliberal Class War
  2. Mark Driscoll
  3. pp. 290-303
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0044
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  1. Manga: A Comic Interlude from Darumasan-ga-koronda, “Land Mine in Central Park”
  2. Yoji Sakate, Manami Shima, Chinami Sango
  3. pp. 305-312
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0056
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Review and Commentary

  1. Two Phases of Japanese Illustrated Fiction
  2. Charles Shiro Inouye
  3. pp. 313-315
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0068
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  1. Paradise Lost . . . and Found?
  2. Paul Jackson
  3. pp. 315-318
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0080
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  1. Molten Hot: Japanese Gal Subcultures and Fashions
  2. Theresa M. Winge
  3. pp. 318-321
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0091
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  1. Monstrous Toys of Capitalism
  2. Brent Allison
  3. pp. 321-323
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0028
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  1. If Casshern Doesn’t Do It, Who Will?
  2. Deborah Shamoon
  3. pp. 323-326
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0039
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  1. Psychoanalytic Cyberpunk Midsummer-Night’s Dreamtime: Kon Satoshi’s Paprika
  2. Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog
  3. pp. 326-329
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0051
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  1. Interview with Murase Shūkō and Satō Dai
  2. Deborah Scally, Angela Drummond-Mathews, Marc Hairston
  3. pp. 329-334
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0064
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Contributors

  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 335-337
  4. DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0076
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