Contents Second Arc Acknowledgments Introduction: Counterfactual Histories, Parallel Universes, and Possible Worlds Frenchy Lunning Part I. Passages of As Not Between Disaster, Medium 3.11 Akira Mizuta Lippit The Land of Hope: Planetary Cartographies of Fukashima, 2012 Christophe Thouny Tokyo Apparatus (Version 1.0) Sabu Kohso Good Morning: A Post-Disaster Palm-of-the-Hand Story Hoshino Tomoyuki, translated by Brian Bergstrom Part II. Positions of What If Record of Dying Days: The Alternate History of Ôoku Andrea Horbinski Deconstructing the Taikô: The Problem of Hideyoshi as Postwar Business Model Susan W. Furukawa A Nation Restored: The Utopian Future of Japan's Far Right Matthew Penney Nanohana Moto Hagio, translated by Matt Thorn, and introduction by Frenchy Lunning Part III. Worlds of As If Beyond the Horizon of the Possible Worlds: An Historical Overview of Japanese Media Franchises Saito Satomi What Can a Vocaloid Do?: The Kyara as Body without Organs Sandra Annett A World Without Pain: Therapeutic Robots and the Analgesic Imagination Steven R. Anderson Part IV.

Loops of Just Then The Girl at the End of Time: Temporality, (P)remediation, and Narrative Freedom in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Forrest Greenwood Animated Nature: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Empathy in Hayao Miyazaki's Ecophilosophy Pamela Gossin Ominous Image of Youth: Worlds, Identities, and Violence in Japanese News Media and When They Cry Brett Hack Parallel Universes, Vertical Worlds, and the Nation as Palimpsest in Murakami Ryû's The World Five Minutes from Now Kendall Heitzman Contributors Index.