Contents -- Introduction: Art Mecho -- Shojo -- Revolutionary Romance: The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shojo Manga -- Shojo Manga! Girls' Comics! A Mirror of Girls' Dreams -- Ranma ½ Fan Fiction Writers: New Narrative Themes or the Same Old Story? -- Doll Beauties and Cosplay -- A Japanese Electra and Her Queer Progeny -- Powers of Time -- Thieves of Baghdad: Transnational Networks of Cinema and Anime in the 1920s -- When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime -- The Quick and the Undead: Visual and Political Dynamics in Blood: The Last Vampire -- Bridges of the Unknown: Visual Desires and Small Apocalypses -- Animalization -- Malice@Doll: Konaka, Specularization, and the Virtual Feminine -- The Animalization of Otaku Culture -- Sex and the Single Pig: Desire and Flight in Porco Rosso -- The Education of Desire: Futari etchi and the Globalization of Sexual Tolerance -- My Father, He Killed Me -- My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering, and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion -- Horizons -- Fly Away Old Home: Memory and Salvation in Haibane-Renmei -- In the World That Is Infinitely Inclusive: Four Theses on Voices of a Distant Star and The Wings of Honneamise -- Between the Child and the Mecha -- Review and Commentary -- Godzilla's Children: Murakami Takes Manhattan -- Anime: Comparing Macro and Micro Analyses -- Crazy Rabbit Man: Why I Rewrite Manga -- Brain-Diving Batou -- Lurkers at the Threshold: Saya and the Nature of Evil -- Torendo -- UAAAAA! Trashkultur! An Interview with MAK's Johannes Wieninger -- Contributors -- Call for Papers.