A note on the translation
Translator's introduction: Making it real : fiction, desire, and the queerness of the beautiful fighting girl / J. Keith Vincent
Preface
The psychopathology of the Otaku
Letter from an Otaku
Beautiful fighting girls outside Japan
The strange kingdom of Henry Darger
A genealogy of the beautiful fighting girl
The emergence of the phallic girls
Afterword to the first edition (2000)
Afterword to the paperback edition (2006)
Commentary. The elder sister of Otaku: Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma.
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Beautiful fighting girl by Tamaki Saitō. ISBN 9780816654512. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
