Beautiful fighting girl / Saitō Tamaki ; translated by J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson ; commentary by Hiroki Azuma.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011], ©2011.

xxv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Translated from the Japanese.