Preface to the Collector's Edition                 7  (4)
Preface to the Original Edition                    11 (8)
    1 Enter the Id                                 19 (14)
      What Are Manga?                              21 (8)
      Why Read Manga?                              29 (4)
    2 Modern Manga at the End of the Millennium    33 (40)
      What's in a Word?                            33 (3)
      The Dojinshi World                           36 (7)
      Otaku                                        43 (6)
      Are Manga Dangerous?                         49 (4)
      Freedom of Speech vs. Regulation             53 (6)
      Black and White Issues #1                    59 (4)
      Black and White Issues #2                    63 (5)
      Do Manga Have a Future?                      68 (5)
  COVERS OF MANGA MAGAZINES                        73 (268)
    3 The Manga Magazine Scene                     81 (55)
      CoroCoro Comic                               83 (4)
      Weekly Boys' Jump                            87 (5)
      Nakayoshi                                    92 (3)
      Big Comics                                   95 (6)
      Morning                                      101(5)
      Take Shobo and Mahjong Manga                 106(4)
      Pachinko Manga Magazines                     110(5)
      Combat Comic                                 115(5)
      June                                         120(4)
      Comic Amour                                  124(3)
      Yan Mama Comic                               127(4)
      Garo                                         131(5)
    4 Artists and Their Work                       136(97)
      Hinako Sugiura                               136(4)
      King Terry                                   140(4)
      Z-Chan (Shingo Iguchi)                       144(3)
      Yoshikazu Ebisu                              147(3)
      Kazuichi Hanawa                              150(5)
      Murasaki Yamada                              155(4)
      Suchiro Maruo                                159(5)
      Silent Service (Kaiji Kawaguchi)             164(4)
      Akira Narita                                 168(5)
      Shungicu Uchida                              173(4)
      Shigeru Mizuki                               177(5)
      Emperor of the Land of the Rising Sun        182(4)
      Criminal Defense Stories                     186(3)
      Fancy Dance (Reiko Okano)                    189(4)
      Tomoi (Wakuni Akisato)                       193(3)
      Naniwa Financiers (Yuji Aoki)                196(4)
      Yoshiharu Tsuge                              200(3)
      Banana Fish (Akimi Yoshida)                  203(4)
      Milk Morizono                                207(5)
      The Way of Manga (Fujiko Fujio)              212(4)
      Doraemon (Fujiko F. Fujio)                   216(5)
      King of Editors (Seiki Tsuchida)             221(3)
      A Declaration of Arrogant-ism                224(4)
      AUM Cult Comics                              228(5)
    5 Osamu Tezuka: A Tribute to the God of        233(42)
    Comics
      The Human Dream Factory                      233(11)
      Mighty Atom and Astro Boy                    244(4)
      The Three Adolfs                             248(5)
      Princess Knight and Takarazuka               253(4)
      Black Jack                                   257(4)
      Phoenix                                      261(7)
      Jungle Emperor                               268(7)
    6 Beyond Manga                                 275(30)
      Nausicaa and the Manga-Anime Link            275(7)
      Manga Artist as Film Director                282(5)
      The Manga-Novel Nexus                        287(8)
      Information Manga                            295(3)
      Manga Artists and Computers                  298(7)
    7 Manga in the English-Speaking World          305(36)
      English-Language Manga Publishers            308(18)
      Manga Made in America                        326(2)
      Fan Power                                    328(4)
      Networking                                   332(5)
      Beyond Fandom                                337(4)
Afterword: Whither Manga?                          341(22)
References and Recommended Readings                363(9)
Index                                              372