"Special Edition ele-king: Why does Japanese popular culture depict the end of the world? The end of the world in manga, anime, and music" by Naoya Fujita and the ele-king editorial team (supervisor)
ISBN:978-4-910511-83-2
What is the end of the world?
Cover/Front page: "Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction"
Interview with Inio Asano (original author)
Naohiro Ukawa, Shinji Miyadai, Kimiyo Ogawa
world's end girlfriend sasakure.UK
Naoya Fujita, Tsutomu Noda, Kazushi Iida, Shiori Kitade, Mamoru Goto, Asako Fukuda, Itou Fuyuki, Yoshimitsu Fujii, Junichiro Ito, Takuto Kobayashi, Hiroto Matsushima, Shima, Flat
From "Devilman" to "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind," "AKIRA," "Neon Genesis Evangelion," "Attack on Titan," "Your Name," and "Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction," to the "end of the world" scenery played by Vocaloids -- why has Japanese pop culture depicted the "end of the world" so much? We will consider the "end of the world" from the perspective of popular culture, and by extension, Japanese culture.
Kikuban / 192 pages
Cover visual
© Inio Asano / Shogakukan
© Inio Asano / Shogakukan / DeDeDeDe Committee
table of contents
Apocalyptic culture is now spreading around the world Tsutomu Noda
◆ "Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction"
Interview with Inio Asano: Can we dream of the future on this damn crazy Earth after the world doesn't end? - Yoshimitsu Fujii on "Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction" Our Victory - The End of the World in Inio Asano's Works Naoya Fujita
Why has Japanese pop culture depicted the "end of the world" so much?
[Interview]
Naohiro Ukawa - For the slugs, the next guardians of the earth Shinji Miyadai - Even if the world ends, you can be happy by making those around you happy Kimiyo Ogawa - Overcoming the "end" through care and dialogue
world's end girlfriend - presenting a "new world" that transcends the "end of the world" and the self and individual
sasakure.UK──Vocaloids will keep singing even if humanity disappears [Essays, Articles, Columns]
The transformation of "the end of the world" in postwar Japanese special effects and anime by Fujita Naoya The spirit of the Sekaikei era by Iida Kazufumi Does "the end of the world" make you cry? - Umezu Kazuo's "14-sai" and childish hearts (rock and roll) Goto Mamoru An overview of apocalyptic science fiction novels - from nuclear war to infectious diseases, climate change, meteorite impacts, population decline, and AI Fuyuki Itsuka's "end of the world songs" as pop culture and their normalization Noda Tsutomu's recollections of the pandemic - music nurtured during an "end that seemed likely but never came" Matsushima Hiroto's Vocaloid song on the theme of "the end of the world" The "end of the world" in Shima's "post-Sekaikei" era by Kitade Shiori
Between two minutes before and two minutes after: On "humanity" in the apocalypse Asako Fukuda The suffering of the last generation of humanity: from Yumi Tamura's "7SEEDS" Junichiro Ito The end of the world and the end of capitalism imagined from "Hanamonogatari" Takune Kobayashi
