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An annotated bibliography of the Mechademia journal.

Volumes typically include an introduction, groups of essays, a review and commentary section, and "Torendo" - an interview section.

Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga (2006)

No.	Title	Release date	ISBN
01	Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga	December 22, 2006	[[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-4945-7%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-00000001-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-4945-7]]
Anifesto Written by Christopher Bolton and Frenchy Lunning, Illustrated by Sara Pocock The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism Anne Allison Globalizing Manga: From Japan to Hong Kong and Beyond Wendy Siuyi Wong The World of Anime Fandom in America Susan Napier Costuming the Imagination: Origins of Anime and Manga Cosplay Theresa Winge Assessing Interactivity in Video Game Design Mark J.P. Wolf Mori Minoru’s Day of Resurrection Tatsumi Takayuki - Translated by Christopher Bolton Superflat and the Layers of Image and History in 1990s Japan Thomas Looser Kurenai no metalsuits, “Anime to wa nani ka/What is animation” Ueno Toshiya - Translated by Michael Arnold The Multiplanar Image Thomas LaMarre The Werewolf in the Crested Kimono: The Wolf-Human Dynamic in Anime and Manga Antonia Levi Metamorphosis of the Japanese Girl: The Girl, the Hyper-Girl, and the Fighting Beauty Mari Kotani Revolutionary Girl Utena: Manga and Anime Citations Compiled by Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog Review and Commentary The Song at the End of the World: Personal Apocalypse in Rintarô’s Metropolis William L. Benzon The Influence of Manga on Japan Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society, by Sharon Kinsella Vern Bullough The Shock of the Newtype: The Mobile Suit Gundam Novels of Tomino Yoshiyuki Patrick Drazen The Yin and Yang of Schoolgirl Experiences: Maria-sama ga miteru and Azumanga Daioh Marc Hairston Historicizing Anime and Manga: From Japan to the World Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics, by Paul Gravett Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews, by Fred Patten Brian Ruh In the Sound of the Bells: Freedom and Revolution in Revolutionary Girl Utena Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog TORENDO: Interview with Lindsay Cibos Michelle Ollie

Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire (2007)

No.	Title	Release date	ISBN
02	Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire	December 26, 2007	[[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-5266-2%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-00000007-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-5266-2]]
Introduction: Art Mecho Frenchy Lunning and Thomas LaMarre (GRRRL) Shojo Revolutionary Romance: The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shojo Manga Deborah Shamoon Shojo Manga! Girls’ Comics! A Mirror of Girls’ Dreams Masami Toku Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction Writers: New Narrative Themes or the Same Old Story? Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila Doll Beauties and Cosplay Mari Kotani - Translated by Thomas LaMarre A Japanese Electra and Her Queer Progeny Keith Vincent Powers of Time Thieves of Baghdad: Transnational Networks of Cinema and Anime in the 1920s Daisuke Miyao When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime Hiromi Mizuno The Quick and the Undead: Visual and Political Dynamics in Blood: The Last Vampire Christopher Bolton Bridges of the Unknown: Visual Desires and Small Apocalypses Eron Rauch Animalization Malice@Doll: Konaka, Specularization, and the Virtual Feminine Margherita Long The Animalization of Otaku Culture Azuma Hiroki - Translated by Yuriko Furuhata and Marc Steinberg Sex and the Single Pig: Desire and Flight in Porco Rosso Patrick Drazen The Education of Desire: Futari etchi and the Globalization of Sexual Tolerance Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog My Father, He Killed Me; My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering, and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion Mariana Ortega Horizons Fly Away Old Home: Memory and Salvation in Haibane-Renmei Marc Hairston In the World That Is Infinitely Inclusive: Four Theses on Voices of a Distant Star and The Wings of Honneamise Shu Kuge Between the Child and the Mecha Frenchy Lunning Review and Commentary Godzilla’s Children: Murakami Takes Manhattan William L. Benzon Anime: Comparing Macro and Micro Analyses Brent Allison Crazy Rabbit Man: Why I Rewrite Manga Trina Robbins Brain-Diving Batou Brian Ruh Lurkers at the Threshold: Saya and the Nature of Evil Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog Torendo UAAAAA! Trashkultur! An Interview with MAK’s Johannes Wieninger Christopher Bolton

Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human (2008)

No.	Title	Release date	ISBN
03	Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human	November 5, 2008	[[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-5482-6%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-0000000B-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-5482-6]]
Preface: The Limits of the Human Frenchy Lunning Introduction: The Limits of “The Limits of the Human” Christopher Bolton Contours—Around the Human Refiguring the Human Mark C. Taylor The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru Michael Dylan Foster Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard Laura Miller Undressing and Dressing Loli: A Search for the Identity of the Japanese Lolita Theresa Winge Manga: Komatopia Natsume Fusanosuke - Translated by Margherita Long, with an introduction by Hajime Nakatani Companions—With the Human Speciesism, Part One: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation Thomas LaMarre Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu’s Works ***Yomota Inuhiko - Translated and introduced by Hajime Nakatani Disarming Atom: Tezuka Osamu’s Manga at War and Peace ***Ôtsuka Eiji - Translated by Thomas LaMarre States of Emergency: Urban Space and the Robotic Body in the Metropolis Tales Lawrence Bird Emotional Infectivity: Cyborg Affect and the Limits of the Human Sharalyn Orbaugh Manga: The Signal of Noise Written and adapted by Adèle-Elise Prévost, Illustrated by MUSEbasement Compossibles—Of the Human Gundam and the Future of Japanoid Art Takayuki Tatsumi - Translated and with a response by Christopher Bolton Pop Culture Icons: Religious Inflections of the Character Toy in Taiwan ***Teri Silvio Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer’s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence ***Steven T. Brown Postscript: On “The Living” Cary Wolfe Review and Commentary A Healing, Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama kaidashi kiko Marc Hairston Commentary. Lost in Transition: Train Men and Dolls in Millennial Japan Susan Napier Howl’s Moving Castle Antonia Levi Playing Outside the Box with Mind Game Paul Jackson From Transnationalization to Globalization: The Experience of Hong Kong Wendy Siuyi Wong “Always Exoticize!” Cyborg Identities and the Challenge of the Nonhuman in Full Metal Apache Joshua Paul Dale Postmodern Is Old Hat: Samurai Champloo William L. Benzon Torendo Giant Robots and Superheroes: Manifestations of Divine Power, East and West, An Interview with Crispin Freeman Frenchy Lunning

Mechademia 4: War/Time (2009)

No.	Title	Release date	ISBN
04	Mechademia 4: War/Time	November 11, 2009	[[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-6749-9%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-00000011-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-6749-9]]
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

Mechademia 5: Fanthropologies (2010)

No.	Title	Release date	ISBN
05	Mechademia 5: Fanthropologies	November 9 2010	[[Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-7387-2%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--ref-00000014-QINU%60%22%27%7F |978-0-8166-7387-2]]
Introduction Frenchy Lunning *Sites of Transposition The Art of Cute Little Things: Nara Yoshitomo’s Parapolitics Marilyn Ivy Transforming U.S. Anime in the 1980s: Localization and Longevity Brian Ruh Speciesism, Part II: Tezuka Osamu and the Multispecies Ideal Thomas Lamarre Undoing Inter-national Fandom in the Age of Brand Nationalism Koichi Iwabuchi Patterns of Consumption World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative Ôtsuka Eiji - Translated and with an Introduction by Marc Steinberg Frenchness and Transformation in Japanese Subculture, 1972–2004 Anne McKnight Monstrous Media and Delusional Consumption in Kon Satoshi’s Paranoia Agent Gerald Figal Lucid Dreams, False Awakenings: Figures of the Fan in Kon Satoshi Kerin Ogg A Cosplay Photography Sampler Eron Rauch and Christopher Bolton Modes of Circulation Dark Energy: What Fansubs Reveal about the Copyright Wars Ian Condry Akihabara: Conditioning a Public Otaku Image Patrick W. Galbraith Comic Market: How the World’s Biggest Amateur Comic Fair Shaped Japanese Dôjinshi Culture Fan-Yi Lam Styles of Intervention Suffering Forces Us to Think beyond the Right–Left Barrier Amamiya Karin - Translated and with an Introduction by Jodie Beck Fans Behaving Badly: Anime Metafandom, Brutal Criticism, and the Intellectual Fan Kathryn Dunlap and Carissa Wolf Anatomy of Permutational Desire: Perversion in Hans Bellmer and Oshii Mamoru Livia Monnet A Cocoon with a View: Hikikomori, Otaku, and Welcome to the NHK Marc Hairston Reorganizations of Gender and Nationalism: Gender Bashing and Loliconized Japanese Society Naitô Chizuko Translated by Nathan Shockey Aeryn’s Dolls Jin C. Tomshine Review and Commentary The Space between Worlds: Mushishi and Japanese Folklore Paul Jackson Animation beyond the Boundaries Susan Napier Three Faces of Eva: Evangelion 1.01: You Are (Not) Alone Cruel Angels? Cruel Fathers! Paul M. Malone Epic Fail: Still Dreary, after All These Years Madeline Ashby The Rebuild of Anime Thomas Lamarre Brief Visions of a Vast Landscape Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog Death Note: The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You Susan Napier ???? Torendo Otakuology: A Dialogue Patrick W. Galbraith and Thomas Lamarre

Mechademia 6: User Enhancement (2011)

No.	Title	Release date	ISBN
06	Mechademia 6: User Enhancement	Fall 2011	—
Introduction Thomas Lamarre Countering Domestication Under the Ruffles: Shôjo and the Morphology of Power Frenchy Lunning Girliness Is Next to Godliness: Lolita Fandom as Sacred Criminality in the Novels of Takemoto Novala Brian Bergstrom Beyond Domesticating Animal Love Christine L. Marran Exploited and Mobilized: Poverty and Work in Contemporary Manga Matthew Penney Commodity-Life Tezuka Is Dead: Manga in Transformation and Its Dysfunctional Discourse Itô Gô - Translated and with an Introduction by Miri Nakamura How Characters Stand Out Miyamoto Hirohito - Translated by Thomas Lamarre Manga Translation and Interculture Cathy Sell Speciesism Part 3: Neoteny and the Politics of Life Thomas Lamarre Photo Play Out of the Closet: The Fancy Phenomenon Photography by Rio Saitô Introduction by Frenchy Lunning Desiring Economies Anatomy of Permutational Desire, Part 2: Bellmer's Dolls and Oshii's Gynoids Livia Monnet Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women’s Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan Kumiko Saito The Sacrificial Economy of Cuteness in Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space Emily Raine Flower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shôjo Manga James Welker Untimely Effects Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992 Miyadai Shinji - Translated by Shion Kono - With an Introduction by Thomas Lamarre The Logic of Digital Gaming Aden Evens Tsuge Yoshiharu and Postwar Japan: Travel, Memory, and Nostalgia Yoshikuni Igarashi Implicational Spectatorship: Hara Setsuko and the Queer Joke Yuka Kanno Review and Commentary War for Entertainment: The Sky Crawlers Andrea Horbinski Volition in the Face of Absurdity Brian Ruh The Past Presents the Future: Toward the Terra Paul Jackson トレンド Torendo Wherein the Author Documents Her Experience as a Porcelain Doll Lisa Blauersouth

Forthcoming

No.	Title	Release date	ISBN
07	Mechademia 7: Lines of Sight	Fall 2012	—
08	Mechademia 8: Tezuka Osamu: Manga Life	Fall 2013	—

External links

• Project MUSE database listing - may be useful for previews
• Google Books - may be useful for previews