PART ONE: INTRODUCTION - Foreword to the Updated Edition - Why Anime? - Anime and Global/Local Identity - PART TWO: BODY, METAMORPHOSIS, IDENTITY - Akira and Ranma : The Monstrous Adolescent - Controlling Bodies: The Body in Pornographic Anime - Ghosts and Machines: The Technological Body - Doll Parts: Technology and the Body in Ghost in the Shell - Stray: Gender Panics, Masculine Crises, and Fantasy - PART THREE: MAGICAL GIRLS AND FANTASY WORLDS - The Enchantment of Estrangement: The Shojo in the World of Miyazaki Hayao - Now You See Her, Now You Don't: The Disappearing Shojo - Carnival and Conservatism in Romantic Comedy - PART FOUR: REMAKING MASTER NARRATIVES: ANIME CONFRONTS HISTORY - No More Words: Barefoot Gen, Grave of Fireflies, and 'Victim's History' Princess Mononoke: Fantasy, the Feminine, and the Myth of 'Progress' - Waiting for the End of the World: Apocalyptic Identity - Elegies