Mechademia 8 : Tezuka's Manga Life.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Nonhuman Life -- "Becoming-Insect Woman": Tezuka's Feminist Species -- Diary of an Insect Shojo's Vagabond Life -- Tezuka Osamu's Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and Buddhism -- Atom Came from Bugs: The Precocious Didacticism of Tezuka Osamu's Essays in Insect Idleness -- On the Fabulation of a Form of Life in the Drawn Line and Systems of Thought -- The Metamorphic and Microscopic in Tezuka Osamu's Graphic Novels -- Media Life -- Where Is Tezuka? A Theory of Manga Expression -- Phoenix 2772: A 1980 Turning Point for Tezuka and Anime -- Copying Atomu -- Tokiwasou Story -- A Life in Manga -- Toward a Theory of "Artist Manga": Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the Artist -- Manga Shonen: Kato Ken'ichi and the Manga Boys -- Implicating Readers: Tezuka's Early Seinen Manga -- Tezuka's Anime Revolution in Context -- Designing a World -- Unico -- Everyday Life -- An Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: The Fascist Origins of Otaku Culture -- Osamu Moet Moso: Imagining Lines of Eroticism in Akihabara -- Tezuka, Shojo Manga, and Hagio Moto -- Out of Death, an Atomic Consecration to Life: Astro Boy and Hiroshima's Long Shadow -- Wolf Head in Phoenix -- Contributors.

Contributors to volume eight of Mechademia analyze Tezuka Osamu and his complicated approaches toward life and nonlife, as well as his effect on other manga artists. Using essays and reprints of Japanese manga on Tezuka, this volume questions his influence and attitudes toward the nonhuman, the sexual politics of manga bodies, and the origins of the moe culture, among others.

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