Contents

• Foreword : Japan’s new visual culture / Frederik L. Schodt
• Introduction / Mark W. MacWilliams
• Manga in Japanese History / Kinko Ito
• Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture / Gilles Poitras
• Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka / Susanne Phillips
• From Metropolis to Metoroporisu : The Changing Role of the Robot in Japanese and Western Cinema / Lee Makela
• Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga / Mizuki Takahashi
• Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga : Teenage Girls, Romance Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture / Deborah Shamoon
• Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese War / Yulia Mikhailova
• Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese Manga, 1957-1977 / Eldad Nakar
• Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime / Rich Gardner
• Medieval Genealogies of Manga and Anime Horror / Raj Pandey
• The Utopian "Power to Live": The Significance of the Miyazaki Phenomenon / Hiroshi Yamanaka
• Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away / Shiro Yoshioka
• National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress / Melek Ortabasi
• Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity / Jaqueline Berndt
• Bibliography