Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Preface

List of contributors

Crime Fighting Robots and Duelling Pocket Monsters: Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture

Ashley Pearson, Thom Giddens and Kieran Tranter

PART I: Possibilities of Justice

The Symptoms of the Just: Psycho-Pass, Judg(e)ment, and the Asymptomatic Commons

Daniel Hourigan

Pirates, Giants and the State: Legal Authority in Manga and Anime

James C. Fisher

Traumatic Origins in Hart and Ringu

Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk

Justice in the Sea of Corruption: Nausicaä as Ecological Jurisprudence

Thomas Giddens

Masterful Trainers and Villainous Liberators: Law and justice in Pokémon Black and White

Dale Mitchell

PART II: The Legal Subject

Doing Right in the World with 100,000 Horsepower: Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), Essence, Posthumanity and Techno-humanism

Kieran Tranter

Caught in Couture: Regulating Clothing and the Body in Kill la Kill

Rosie Taylor-Harding

Holy Trans-Jurisdictional Representations of Justice, Batman!": Globalisation, Persona and Mask in Kuwata’s Batmanga and Morrison’s Batman, Incorporated

Timothy D. Peters

PART III: The Power and Problem of the Image

‘Finding the Law’ through Creating and Consuming Gay Manga in Japan: From Heteronormativity to Queer Activism

Thomas Baudinette

Regulating Counterpublics in Yaoi Online Fan Communities

Scott Beattie

‘Is Yaoi Illegal?!’: Let’s Get Real about the Potential Criminalisation of Yaoi

Hadeel Al-Alosi

Constitutional Analysis of Secondary Works in Japan: From Otaku to the World

Yuichiro Tsuji

PART IV: Specificities of Law and Justice in Everyday Japan

‘The World is Rotten’: Execution and Power in Death Note and the Japanese Capital Punishment System

Ashley Pearson

Debts, Family, and Identity after the Collapse of the Bubble: Miyabe Miyuki’s All She Was Worth

Giorgio Fabio Colombo

Rules and Unruliness in Manga Depictions of Community Police Boxes

Richard Powell and Hideyuki Kumaki

The Image-Characters of Criminal Justice in Tokyo

Peter D. Rush and Alison Young

Index

About the Author

Ashley Pearson is a PhD candidate at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.

Thomas Giddens is a Senior Lecturer at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, United Kingdom.

Kieran Tranter is an Associate Professor at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.