Editor: Roman Rosenbaum
Publisher: Routledge (Abingdon, UK / New York, NY)
Contents:
- Rosenbaum, Roman. Introduction: The political potential of manga (pp. 1-26)
- Greene, Barbara. Re-envisioning the Dark Valley and the decline of the peace state (pp. 27-45).
[Attack on Titan; Fullmetal Alchemist; Inuyasha] - Lewis, Michael. Kobayashi Yoshinori’s Just War and unjust peace: Senso-ron, arrogant-ism, and selected memory (pp. 46-61).
- Takeuchi, Michiko. Sexual politics in manga: Pan-Pan Girls confronting the US occupation, Vietnam War, and Japan’s Article 9 revision (pp. 62-85).
- Webb, Sean Patrick. NEETs versus nuns: visualizing the moral panic of Japan’s conservatives (pp. 86-102).
[A Certain Magical Index; AMAKUSA 1637; Garden; Palepoli] - Hutchinson, Rachael. The body political: women and war in Kantai Collection (pp. 103-120).
- Hall, Jeffrey J. Towards an unrestrained military: manga narratives of the self-defense forces (pp. 121-140).
[Aozakura: The Story of the National Defense Academy; Gate: Where the JSDF Fought] - Rosenbaum, Roman. The political representation of Hiroshima in the graphic art of Kono Fumiyo (pp. 141-161).
[In This Corner of the World; Town of Evening Calm, County of Cherry Blossoms] - Whaley, Ben. What Tezuka would tell Trump: critiquing Japanese cultural nationalism in Gringo (pp. 162-182).
- Kohn, Stephan. Questioning the politics of popular culture: Tatsuta Kazuto’s manga 1F and the national discourse on 3/11 (pp. 182-202).
- Smith, Christopher. Database nationalism: the disaggregation of nation, nationalism, and symbol in pop culture (pp. 203-223).
- Dinitto, Rachel. Envisioning nuclear futures: Shiriagari Kotobuke’s 3/11 manga from hope to despair (pp. 223-244).
- Hasegawa, Yuko. Kokoro (心): Civic epistemology of self-knowledge in Japanese war-themed manga (pp. 245-264).
[Barefoot Gen; Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths; Message to Adolf] - Rosenbaum, Roman. In conclusion: Abenomics, Trumpism, and manga (pp. 265-276).