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Websites
Anime and Animation: www.anime-and-animation.com
Anime Castle Online Anime Store: www.animecastle.com
AnimeCons The Anime Convention Nexus: www.animecons.com
Anime Boy: www.animeboy.org
AnimeNation Anime Store: www.animenation.com
The Anime Network: www.theanimenetwork.com
Anime News Network: www.animenewsnetwork.com
AnimeOnline Anime Community: www.animeonline.net
Anime Web Turnpike: www.anipike.com
Animation World Network: www.awn.com
Baka-Updates Manga: www.mangaupdates.com
The Black Moon Art, Anime, and Japanese Culture: www.theblackmoon.com
Cartoon Leap Anime Blog: www.cartoonleap.com
The Comics Journal: www.tcj.com
Comics Worth Reading: www.comicsworthreading.com
Convention Finder: www.containment.greententacles.com
Cornell Japanese Animation Society: www.cjas.org
FUNimation Anime: www.funimation.com
Manga Entertainment Anime and Info: www.manga.com
Mania Beyond Entertainment: www.mania.com
Mechademia Forum for Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts: www.mechademia.org
Midnight Eye Japanese Cinema: www.midnighteye.com
Protoculture Guide to Anime Culture: www.protoculture.ca
Otaku.com Anime Community: www.theotaku.com
Tezuka In English: All Things Related to Osamu Tezuka: www.tezukainenglish.com
Tim Maughan Books: www.timmaughanbooks.com
TokyoPop Japanese Culture and Creative Expression: www.tokyopop.com
Watch Anime Online: www.animepile.net
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absolute war
Adam and Eve (biblical)
adolescence, concept of
Adorno, Theodor
Aesthetic Theory
Advancer Tina (anime)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (movie)
Aida, Yu
Akira (anime)
agency in
anxiety in
evolution in
fatalism in
Numbers in
Akira (character)
Akiyama, Katsuhito
alchemic hero
alchemy
Always My Santa (anime)
Ambrose, St.
Amerigan (character)
Angel/Dust Neo (anime)
Angel Sanctuary (anime)
Angie (character)
anime
biblical flood in
bodies in, as “becoming,”
bonus material for
Catholicism in
child hero in
children in, as romanticized
Christianity in
competition in
distribution of
on evolution
existential scream in
female cyborgs in
gender and sex in
global destruction in
influence of
mecha genre
as niche market
pornographic
posthumanism in
religious pluralism of
translation of
unexpected moments in
Anno, Hikeaki
Anti-Violent Media theories
Apocalypse Zero (anime)
Appleseed (anime)
Aquinas, Thomas
on sin
Arakawa, Hiromu
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
on children
on courage
and pain
on cowardice
on economics
Metaphysics
Nicomachean Ethics
Poetics
on vengeance
on wealth
Armitage, Naomi (character)
Armitage the Third (anime)
art, reception theory of
Asaka, Morio
Astro Boy (anime)
and atomic age
“The Birth of Astro Boy” (episode)
as melancholy
as mimetic
“Save the Classmate” (episode)
standing-reserve in
atomic age, contradictions of
Atomu (character)
as abandoned
as human/nonhuman
and mimesis
powers of
as robot
as standing-reserve
Augustine of Hippo
Aum Shinrikyō
Babel II (anime)
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Balsamo, Anne:
Technologies of the Gendered Body
Barbie, as posthuman
Barefoot Gen (anime)
Basil, St.
Batou (character)
as cyborg
Bayes (character)
Beckner, Heintz (character)
Beckner, Nadine (character)
belief:
and question of evidence
and suspended judgment
belief option (James)
forced
Berkowitz, Leonard
Berserk (anime)
Bessho, Makoto
The Big O (anime)
Big Wars (anime)
Bicentennial Man (film)
biotechnologies
Bleach (anime)
Blood: The Last Vampire (anime)
Bock, Felicia G.
bodies
as “becoming,”
possibilities of
as informational
boiled frog syndrome
Brasher, Brenda
Buddhism. See also Japan: Buddhism in bukkyō
Bushido code
Bushman, B.J.
Calvin, John
capital
as Philosopher’s Stone
capital vices
Greed
Pride
Sloth
Cartesian dualism
Catbus (character), as monster
Categorical Imperative
Caterina (character)
catharsis
Catharsis Theory
critique of
support, of
Cato
Cavallaro, Dani
Cell (character)
Char�
��s Counter Attack (anime)
Chi (character)
Chihiro (character)
childhood development, concept of
child soldiers
Chinese Room Argument
Chobits (anime)
Christianity
gender and sex in
on pluralism
Chrno Crusade (anime)
theology of
Cicero
cinema, images of women in
Claes (character)
Clausewitz, Carl von:
On War
cognition
and computation
competition
Darwinian
Smithian
value of
Confucianism. See also Japan: Confucianism in consciousness
as embodied
consequentialism
Coyote, Wile E. (character)
Cream Lemon (anime)
cultivation theory
Curtis, Izumi (character)
cyborg ontology
cyborgs
female
and patriarchy
as subverting gender bias
as transitional
Cyborg Studies
Cyborg 009 (anime)
Dahlia (character)
Dante Alighieri:
Divine Comedy
Darwin, Charles
The Descent of Man
The Origin of Species
Dawkins, Richard:
The Selfish Gene
Demon-Beast Phalanx (anime)
Demon Lord Dante (anime)
Dengeki Daiō (anime)
Dennett, Daniel
Descartes, René
Desensitization Theory
Desert Park (anime)
Devilman (anime)
Devil May Cry (anime)
D-Grayman (anime)
dialectic of enlightenment
Diamond, Milton
Dictionary of Japan Sex
disembodiment
Disinhibition Theory
distributed cognition
Diver and Two Octopi (painting)
DragonBall series (anime)
dual-hero
dualism
Earthian (anime)
economics, as alchemy
Eichmann, Adolf
8 Man (anime)
Elfen Lied (anime)
Elric brothers (characters)
as alchemists
as archetypal heroes
as dual-hero
as wandering redemption seekers
Elsa (character)
embodiment
Emily (character)
End of Evangelion (anime)
Eno, Brian
epistemology
equivalent exchange
and inadequate protections
and specialization
ero
Escher (character)
Eusebius:
Praeparatio Evangelica
Eva (character)
evolution
and the future
and technology
fatalism
Fate/Stay Night (anime)
Feshbach, Seymour
Flamel, Nicolas
Flamel, Perenelle
Flynt, Larry
Fooly Cooly (anime)
Franca (character)
Freud, Sigmund
Fukuyama, Francis
Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)
Be Thou for the People (episode)
Greed in
and human alchemy
Those Who Challenge the Sun (episode)
Gankutsuou (anime)
gender, as socially constructed
genetic reductionism
Gerbner, George
Ghost in the Shell (anime). See also Innocence: Ghost in the Shell II
Bible passages in
cyborgs in
embodiment in
humanism in
on human identity
mind invasion in
posthuman in
soundtrack of
technology as positive in
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV show)
Ghost Sweeper Mikami (anime)
Gibson, William:
Neuromancer
Gilgamesh (anime)
Gill, Tom
gold, and eternal life
golem
Go Go Heaven (anime)
Golgo 13 (anime)
Grave of the Fireflies (anime)
as cautionary tale
as not ordinary
Gray, Chris Hables:
Cyborg Citizen
Gross, Larry
the grotesque
Gundam (anime)
Gunslinger Girl (anime)
conditioning in
and gender roles
limited self-awareness in
relationships in
target audience
victimization in
Gurotesuka (journal)
gynoids
Haku (character)
Halberstam, Judith
Posthuman Bodies
Harajuku girls
Haraway, Donna
as anti-goddess
“A Cyborg Manifesto,”
on gender construction
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
When Species Meet
Harmageddon (anime)
Haskel, Molly
“From Reverence to Rape,”
Hayles, N. Katherine
How We Became Posthuman
Heidegger, Martin
on anxiety
Being and Time
on standing-reserve
on technology
Hellsing (anime)
Henrietta (character)
hentai
birth of
and catharsis
cultural explanations for
growing market of
influence of
as power fantasy
as rape porn
resentment of women in
and sexual repression
theoretical value of
and women’s changing roles
Heraclitus
Heraclitus’s River
hero(es):
alchemic
archetypal approach to
compositional approach to
dual
functional approach to
psychological approach to
student
heroic archetypes, in Japan
Hick, John:
An Interpretation of Religion
Highlander (anime)
Hikaru no Go (anime)
Hinamatsuri
Hirai, Kazumasa
Hiroshima
Hokusai, Katsushika
holon
homunculi
Horkheimer, Max
Howl’s Moving Castle (anime)
Huesmann, L.R.
human alchemy
human exceptionalism
human extinction
human identity, nature of
humanism
Hutchins, Edwin
I Ching
Ichigo (character)
identity:
and change
nature of
Immortals (Highlander)
Innocence: Ghost in the Shell II
(anime)
doll imagery in
human/machine blurring of
and machines becoming human
soundtrack for
Iraq war
I, Robot (movie)
Ishinomori, Shōtarō
Izanagi
Izanami
James, William:
on belief options
on passion
“The Will to Believe,”
Japan
as alchemic culture
Buddhism in
Christianity in
Christmas in
Confucianism in
heroic archetypes in
religion in, as pluralistic
sexual assault statistics
sexual history of
sexual imagery in
Shinto in
and women’s changing roles
Japanese inferiority
Jeane, the Kamikaze Thief (anime)
Jerome, St.
Joan of Arc
Jose (character)
Joy, Bill
Jubei (character)
jus ad bellum
jus en bello
just war, criteria of
Just War Theory (JWT)
elements of
as framework
problem of
and weapons of mass destruction
Kaneda (character)
Kant, Immanuel
Kasulis, Thomas
Shinto: The Way Home
Katsushiro, Otomo
kawaii
Kawai, Kenji
Kawajiri, Yoshiaki
Kelts, Rolland:
Japanamerica
Kierkegaard, Søren
Kiki’s Delivery Service (anime)
Kinsella, Sharon
Kintaro (character)
Kisho (journal)
Kiyoko (character)
Koestler, Arthur
on consciousness
The Ghost in the Machine
Kull, Anne
Kusanagi, Major Motoko (character)
as cyborg
and dualisms
embodiment of
and gender subversion
as hybrid
identity crisis of
maintenance of
making of
as posthuman
and Puppet Master
techno-transcendence in
as transitional
Kushana (character)
Kuwait, Iraq invasion of
Kuwata, Jirō
La Blue Girl (anime)
La Esperança (anime)
Lauro (character)
Lee, Rock (character)
“leveling up,”
Lewis, C.S.
Lilith
Livingston, Ira:
Posthuman Bodies
Locke, John
Second Treatise of Government
Loew, Rabbi Judah
Lolita Anime (anime)
Lucretius:
On the Nature of Things
Luther, Martin
Machine-to-human transitions
MacLeod, Colin (character)
and bravery/cowardice
as immortal
motivation of
Madonna:
“What It Feels Like for a Girl,”
Maglish, Bruce
Magnetic Rose (anime)
Major. See Kusanagi, Major Motoko
manga
pornographic
Manga Entertainment
Manson, Marilyn
Maria-sama ga Miteru (anime)
Marx, Karl H.
on money
Masura (character)
The Matrix (film)
mecha
Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human (anime)
Metropolis (anime)
Midgley, Mary
Mighty Atom (manga)