...This book, the seventh volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga, explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan culture, and Japanese art—from scroll paintings to superflat—challenge, undermine, or disregard the concept of Cartesian...

... that propaganda effective? And do the Cartesian or anti-Cartesian elements of kamishibai plays have any influence on the propaganda effect? It argues that it is impossible to gauge the actual effectiveness of kamishibai as propaganda in the Fifteen Year War. The plays certainly...