Christopher Bolton is professor of comparative and Japanese literature at Williams College. He is author of Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe K¿b¿, coeditor of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (Minnesota, 2007), and a founding member of the Mechademia editorial board.

Contents
A Note on the Text
Introduction. Read or Die: Reading Anime
1. From Origin to Oblivion: Akira as Anime and Manga
2. The Mecha’s Blind Spot: Cinematic and Electronic in Patlabor 2
3. Puppet Voices, Cyborg Souls: Ghost in the Shell and Classical Japanese Theater
4. The Forgetful Phallus and the Otaku’s Third Eye: 3x3 Eyes and Anime’s Audience
5. Anime in Drag: Stage Performance and Staged Performance in Millennium Actress
6. The Quick and the Undead: Blood: The Last Vampire and Television Anime
7. It’s Art, but Is It Anime? Howl's Moving Castle and the Novel
Conclusion: Summer Wars
Chronology
Acknowledgments
Notes
Moving Image Sources
Bibliography
Index