Mechademia 10

Contents

Second Arc
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Counterfactual Histories, Parallel Universes, and Possible Worlds
Frenchy Lunning
Part I. Passages of As Not
Between Disaster, Medium 3.11
Akira Mizuta Lippit
The Land of Hope: Planetary Cartographies of Fukashima, 2012
Christophe Thouny
Tokyo Apparatus (Version 1.0)
Sabu Kohso
Good Morning: A Post-Disaster Palm-of-the-Hand Story
Hoshino Tomoyuki, translated by Brian Bergstrom
Part II. Positions of What If
Record of Dying Days: The Alternate History of Ôoku
Andrea Horbinski
Deconstructing the TaikÔ: The Problem of Hideyoshi as Postwar Business Model
Susan W. Furukawa
A Nation Restored: The Utopian Future of Japan's Far Right
Matthew Penney
Nanohana
Moto Hagio, translated by Matt Thorn, and introduction by Frenchy Lunning
Part III. Worlds of As If
Beyond the Horizon of the Possible Worlds: An Historical Overview of Japanese Media Franchises
Saito Satomi
What Can a Vocaloid Do?: The Kyara as Body without Organs
Sandra Annett
A World Without Pain: Therapeutic Robots and the Analgesic Imagination
Steven R. Anderson
Part IV. Loops of Just Then
The Girl at the End of Time: Temporality, (P)remediation, and Narrative Freedom in Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Forrest Greenwood
Animated Nature: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Empathy in Hayao Miyazaki's Ecophilosophy
Pamela Gossin
Ominous Image of Youth: Worlds, Identities, and Violence in Japanese News Media and When They Cry
Brett Hack
Parallel Universes, Vertical Worlds, and the Nation as Palimpsest in Murakami RyÛ's The World Five Minutes from Now
Kendall Heitzman
Contributors
Index