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Mechademia 4 War/Time Frenchy Lunning, editor Table of Contents PRESS: Anime News Network's "Chicks on Anime" interview		$21.95 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6749-9
The provocative manga and anime that reflect Japan’s attempts to come to terms with militarism, violence, and defeat The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country’s militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy pacifism imposed by the victors. Delving into topics ranging from the production of wartime propaganda to the multimedia adaptations of romance narrative, contributors to the fourth volume in the Mechademia series address the political, cultural, and technological continuum between war and the everyday time of orderly social productivity that is reflected, confronted, and changed in manga, anime, and other forms of Japanese popular culture. Grouped thematically, the essays in this volume explore the relationship between national sovereignty and war (from the militarization of children as critically exposed in Grave of the Fireflies to reworkings of Japanese patriotism in The Place Promised in Our Early Days), the intersection of war and the technologies of social control (as observed in the films of Oshii Mamoru and the apocalyptic vision of Neon Genesis Evangelion), history and memory as in manga artists working through the trauma of Japan’s defeat in World War II and the new modalities of storytelling represented by Final Fantasy X), and the renewal and hybridization of militaristic genres as a means of subverting conventions (in Yamada Futaro’s ninja fiction and Miuchi Suzue’s girl knight manga). Contributors: Brent Allison; Mark Anderson; Christopher Bolton, Williams College; Martha Cornog; Marc Driscoll, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Angela Drummond-Mathews, Paul Quinn College; Michael Fisch; Michael Dylan Foster, Indiana U; Wendy Goldberg; Marc Hairston, U of Texas, Dallas; Charles Shiro Inouye, Tufts University; Rei Okamoto Inouye, Northeastern U; Paul Jackson; Seth Jacobowitz, San Francisco State U; Thomas Lamarre, McGill U; Tom Looser, New York U; Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State U; Christine Marran, U of Minnesota; Zilia Papp, Hosei U, Tokyo; Marco Pellitteri; Timothy Perper; Yoji Sakate; Chinami Sango; Deborah Scally; Deborah Shamoon, U of Notre Dame; Manami Shima; Rebecca Suter, U of Sydney; Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio U, Tokyo; Christophe Thouny; Gavin Walker; Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College; Teresa M. Winge, Indiana U. Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the editor of the Mechademia series. 296 pages | 53 b&w illustrations | 7 x 10 | 2009 Mechademia Series, volume 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS 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   Contributors Call for Papers

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