Millennial monsters Japanese toys and the global imagination - Allison, Anne 1950- (Berkeley University of California Press, 2006)
Enchanted commodities -- From ashes to cyborgs : the era of reconstruction (1945-1960) -- Millennial Japan : intimate alienation and new age intimacies -- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers : the first crossover superheroes -- Fierce flesh : sexy schoolgirls in the action fantasy of Sailor Moon -- Tamagotchi : the prosthetics of presence -- Pokâemon : getting monsters and communicating capitalism -- "Gotta catch 'em all" : the Pokâemonization of America (and the world).
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [i].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index.
Keywords: Toys -- Japan; Games -- Japan; Animated films -- Japan; Video games -- Japan; Consumer goods -- Japan; Toy industry -- Japan; Toys -- Japan -- Marketing; Philosophy, Japanese; Japan -- Social life and customs