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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: The Second Arc of Mechademia
  2. Sandra Annett, Frenchy Lunning
  3. pp. 1-5
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Section 1: Exploring Childhood

  1. Children as a Different Culture: Chapter 1, Part II, “On Fragmentation: Parts Not Disconnected”
  2. Honda Masuko, Deborah Shamoon
  3. pp. 9-24
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  1. From Vulnerable Minds to Cosmopolitan Affect: Child Fans of Anime in the 1960s–1980s
  2. Sandra Annett
  3. pp. 25-43
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  1. Anime in Schools: Going Beyond Globalization and Standards
  2. Brent Allison
  3. pp. 44-61
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Section 2: Paper Plays and Manga Magazines

  1. Play, Education, or Indoctrination? Kamishibai in 1930s Japan
  2. Sharalyn Orbaugh
  3. pp. 65-91
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  1. Combating Youth Violence: The Emergence of Boy Sleuths in Japan’s Lost Decade
  2. Tsugumi Okabe
  3. pp. 92-112
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  1. Particularities of Boys’ Manga in the Early Twenty-First Century: How Naruto Differs from Dragon Ball
  2. Itō Gō
  3. pp. 113-123
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  1. Training the Next Generation of Mangaka: A Comparison of Award Announcements in Shūkan shōnen janpu and Hana to yume
  2. Mia Lewis
  3. pp. 124-143
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Section 3: Mechanics of Desire

  1. Against Teleology: Nostalgia and the Vicissitudes of Connectedness in Pharrell Williams’s Music Video It Girl
  2. Ana Matilde Sousa
  3. pp. 147-165
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  1. Pursuing One’s Own Prince: Love’s Fantasy in Otome Game Contents and Fan Practice
  2. Leticia Andlauer
  3. pp. 166-183
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