Table of Contents:
“…The illustrated night parade of one hundred demons, 1776 ; The illustrated one hundred demons from the present and the past, 1779 ; Supplement to the one hundred demons from the present and the past, 1781 ; The illustrated bag of one hundred demons, 1781 ; Yanagita Kunio's Yōkai meii -- Yōkai in cinema, 1968-2008. Great yōkai wars 1966-2005 ; Yōkai daisensō in manga, 1966 ; Yōkai daisensō in animation, 1968 ; Yōkai Daisensō in film., 1968 ; Yōkai daisensō in remake, 2005 ; Yōkai daisensō character design ; Yōkai daisensō demon parade ; Kitaro on film, 2007 ; Dotaro, 2007 ; Cat-eye boy, 2006 -- Monsters march on. …”
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2009
Table of Contents:
“…Preface: war/time / Thomas Lamarre -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Ninja, hidden Christians, and the two Ferreiras : on Endō Shūsaku and Yamada Fūtarō / Takayuki Tatsumi ; translated by Seth Jacobowitz -- Monsters at war : the great yōkai wars, 1968-2005 / Zília Papp -- From Jusuheru to Jannu : girl knights and Christian witches in the work of Miuchi Suzue / Rebecca Suter -- 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 -- Torendo.…”