This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with animé's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies of the end of history. The contributors dismantle the distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of animé and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global.

本集描绘了日本当代动画的地形，这是过去25年中，在跨国文化生产的十字路口出现的最具爆炸性的视觉文化形式之一。这些文章大胆而有见地地阐述了阿尼姆对性别认同的关注，对身体变异和技术怪诞的焦虑，以及对历史终结的世界末日幻想。这些贡献者消除了“高”和“低”文化之间的区别，并为动画和流行文化研究的价值和重要性提供了令人信服的论据，作为从本地到全球翻译的关键环节。