![]() Since it first hit Japanese TV screens in 1995, the multimedia Neon Genesis Evangelion phenomenon has never faded. ![]() But why are so many people keeping an eye on these relationships − people like homeroom teacher Misato, school nurse Ritsuko, and Shinji's mother, NERV's chief scientist, Yui Ikari.? And she always sort of assumed they'd stay together − until the day the beautiful, brilliant Rei Ayanami showed up in class! When Shinji starts to get curious about Rei, Asuka needs to figure out if she wants to be just friends with Shinji, or something more. Winge, Indiana U.Stunning, hotheaded Asuka Langley Soryu has been friends with Shinji Ikari since they were little. ![]() Delving into topics ranging from the production of wartime propaganda to the multimedia adaptations of romance narrative, contributors to the fourth volume in the Mechademia series address the political, cultural, and technological continuum between war and the everyday time of orderly social productivity that is reflected, confronted, and changed in manga, anime, and other forms of Japanese popular culture.Grouped thematically, the essays in this volume explore the relationship between national sovereignty and war (from the militarization of children as critically exposed in Grave of the Fireflies to reworkings of Japanese patriotism in The Place Promised in Our Early Days), the intersection of war and the technologies of social control (as observed in the films of Oshii Mamoru and the apocalyptic vision of Neon Genesis Evangelion), history and memory as in manga artists working through the trauma of Japan's defeat in World War II and the new modalities of storytelling represented by Final Fantasy X), and the renewal and hybridization of militaristic genres as a means of subverting conventions (in Yamada Futaro's ninja fiction and Miuchi Suzue's girl knight manga).Contributors: Brent Allison Mark Anderson Christopher Bolton, Williams College Martha Cornog Marc Driscoll, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Angela Drummond-Mathews, Paul Quinn College Michael Fisch Michael Dylan Foster, Indiana U Wendy Goldberg Marc Hairston, U of Texas, Dallas Charles Shiro Inouye, Tufts University Rei Okamoto Inouye, Northeastern U Paul Jackson Seth Jacobowitz, San Francisco State U Thomas Lamarre, McGill U Tom Looser, New York U Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State U Christine Marran, U of Minnesota Zilia Papp, Hosei U, Tokyo Marco Pellitteri Timothy Perper Yoji Sakate Chinami Sango Deborah Scally Deborah Shamoon, U of Notre Dame Manami Shima Rebecca Suter, U of Sydney Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio U, Tokyo Christophe Thouny Gavin Walker Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College Teresa M. The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country's militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy pacifism imposed by the victors. ![]()
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