

A VERY SOFT TIME MACHINE From Translation to Transfiguration OTAKU SEXUALITY Saito¯ Tamaki 222 Afterword. INVASION OF THE WOMAN SNATCHERS The Problem of A-Life and the Uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within SEX AND THE SINGLE CYBORG Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity WORDS OF ALIENATION, WORDS OF FLIGHT Loanwords in Science Fiction Anime THE MECHA’S BLIND SPOT Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of AnimeĬhristopher Bolton 123 8. WHEN THE MACHINES STOP Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain TSUTSUI YASUTAKA AND THE MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE OF AUTHORSHIP William O. SF AS HAMLET Science Fiction and Philosophyĥ. ALIEN SPACES AND ALIEN BODIES IN JAPANESE WOMEN’S SCIENCE FICTION Kotani Mari 47 4. HAS THE EMPIRE SUNK YET? The Pacific in Japanese Science Fiction HORROR AND MACHINES IN PREWAR JAPAN The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyu ¯ saku’s Dogura magura ROBOT GHOSTS AND WIRED DREAMS Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to AnimeĬhristopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi vii Part I. Tatsumi, Takayuki, 1955– PL747.57.S3R63 2007 895.6'30876209-dc22 2007027032 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. Science fiction, Japanese-History and criticism. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Robot ghosts and wired dreams : Japanese science fiction from origins to anime / Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi, editors. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Copyright 2007 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. See page 261 for information on previously published material in this book. University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis CHRISTOPHER BOLTON, ISTVAN CSICSERY-RONAY JR., AND TAKAYUKI TATSUMI, EDITORS
