The Mecha's Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime.
The giant "labors" (robots) and their human pilots featured in Oshii Mamoru's "mecha" anime "Patlabor 2" (1993) are split figures that reflect technology's power to magnify or enhance the human while simultaneously threatening dehumanization. In "Patlabor 2," these machines enhance perception while...
| Published in: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 453 - 475 |
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University of California Press
Nov2002
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