Gresh, Lois H.,
and Robert Weinberg. 2005. The
Science of Anime: Mecha-Noids and AI-Super-Bots.
Thunder's Mouth Press. 256pp. ISBN-10: 1560257687; ISBN-13:
978-1560257684 (pb).
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Introduction ... ix
1. The Origins of
Anime
The Birth of
Comics and Anime ... 1
The God of Anime ... 14
The Anime Revolution ... 19
Anime in the 1980s ... 25
Anime Today ... 28
2. Mecha
The World of Giant
Robots ... 33
History and Evolution of Anime Mecha ... 37
Anime Mecha: The Shows ... 41
Exoskeletons ... 68
Remotely Controlled and Piloted Robots ... 72
How Humans and Artificially Intelligent Robots Differ ... 73
Man-Machine Interfaces and Prosthetics in Real Life ... 74
3. Artificial
Intelligence
An Overview of AI
... 85
The Shows ... 86
The Science ... 81
4. Colonies in
Space
The Population
Bomb ... 109
The Gundam
World ... 113
Lagrangian Points ... 119
O'Neill Space Colonies ... 129
Minovsky Particles ... 134
5. Policing an
Anime Future
It's a Cyberpunk
World ... 139
Thermo-Optical Camouflage ... 144
The Future is Now ... 148
The Cyber-Terrorism Threat ... 156
6. Anime Evolves
The Gospel of a
New Century ... 163
Who is Akira? ... 168
Evolution Under Attack ... 173
The Next Step in Human Evolution ... 180
Nausicaa of the
Valley of the Wind ... 187
Gaia ... 191
7. Parallel
Universes
Worlds Near and
Far ... 199
Getting There ... 200
The Science of Parallel Universes ... 203
8. The Future of
Virtual Reality
The World of dot hack sign ...
213
Virtual Surgery 219
Virtual Law Enforcement ... 226
Design by VR ... 231
9. Plausible but
Illogical ... 235
In Closing ... 243
Notes ... 245
Bibliography ... 251
Acknowledgments ... 259