◆最先端の批評家たちによるアニメ批評の集大成。『フルメタル・アパッチ』脱稿以後の巽孝之による、論者初のアニメ批評が収められている。（巽孝之）New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with anime's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies. The contributors dismantle the distinction between "high" and "low" culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of anime and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global.