巽孝之、スーザン・ネイピア、クリストファー・ボルトン、大塚英志、四方田犬彦、夏目房之介らのテクストを含む。Maps the terrain of posthumanity using manga and anime as guides and signposts to understand how to think about humanity's new potentialities and limits. Through a wide range of texts - Mizuki Shigeru's manga; Japan's Gothic Lolita subculture; Tezuka Osamu's Atom and Metropolis (along with Otomo Katsuhiro's 2001 anime film adaptation); Gundam; Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, among others - the essays in this volume reject simple human/nonhuman dichotomies and instead encourage a provocative rethinking of the definitions of humanity along entirely unexpected frontiers.