Table of Contents

Contents
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
Contributors
Call for Papers

About the Author

Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.