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Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts. Mechademia’s subject area extends from manga and anime to game design, fashion, graphics, packaging, and toy industries, as well as a broad range of fan practices related to popular culture in Japan. We are interested in how the academic and fan communities can provide new possibilities for critical thinking and popular writing. Mechademia appears annually, published by University of Minnesota Press.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Preface: War/Time

Thomas LaMarre

pp. ix-xiv

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0070

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Contributors

pp. 335-337

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0076

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