(Most of the) Works Cited
Because this is not a formal academic paper, I declined to include a small number of sources below that I did not thoroughly read/watch/play but simply quoted a small portion of. These are adequately linked and cited in the body of the essay.
Chiri Yukie and Kyoko Selden. “The Song the Owl God Himself Sang. An Ainu Tale.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, no. 7 (2009). https://apjjf.org/-Chiri-Yukie/3026/article.html
Chiri Yukie. The Song The Owl God Sang: The collected Ainu legends of Chiri Yukie. Translated by Benjamin Peterson. Published by BJS Books, 2013.
(Unfortunately, the website that used to host this material is not fully archived and is now a very sketchy sex doll site.)
David Cronenberg, director. Videodrome. 1983. Criterion, 2010, Blu-ray.
GhenryPerez. “No Paradise | No More Heroes III Analysis.” 23 May 2022. https://youtu.be/7bxNgGkZK2Y
David Graeber. “Super Position.” Super Position, 8 October 2012. https://thenewinquiry.com/super-position/
Archive link.
Grasshopper Manufacture. The Silver Case, Windows. Published by Grasshopper Manufacture, 2016.
Flower, Sun, and Rain, Nintendo DS. Published by Marvelous, 2008.
killer7, Windows. Published by NIS America, 2018.
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case, Windows. Published by NIS America, 2018.
Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, PlayStation 2. Published by Bandai, 2006.
No More Heroes, Windows. Published by XSEED Games and Marvelous, 2021.
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, Windows. Published by Marvelous, 2019.
No More Heroes III, Nintendo Switch. Published by Grasshopper Manufacture, 2022.
Frantz Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. Published by Grove Press, 2004.
Tetsuo Jimbo. “Nakasone Acknowledges Recruit Donations; Says He’s Innocent In Scandal.” Associated Press, 25 May 1989 https://web.archive.org/web/20230621072519/https://apnews.com/article/dc097e9781634b2652217a5f79966300
Nic Freeman. “Agency in the Silver Case: At Least Part of a Soul.” Grasshopper Manufacture Zine Vol. 2, January 2021, 66–67. https://ghmzine.gumroad.com/l/WKdDQ?layout=profile
“Transcript: Greta Thunberg’s Speech At The U.N. Climate Action Summit.” NPR, 23 September 2019. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763452863/transcript-greta-thunbergs-speech-at-the-u-n-climate-action-summit
Olly Haynes. “The Future is Cancelled.” Epilogue, 21 August 2020. https://epiloguemag.com/2020/08/the-future-is-cancelled/
Naomi Klein. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published by Henry Holt and Company, 2007.
Korekata Naoko. Case #4.5: Face. Translated by belgiumtuesday. Published by ASCII Corporation, 1999. http://fftranslations.atspace.co.uk/tscnov/index.html#gsc.tab=0
Stephen S. Large. “Nationalist Extremism in Early Shōwa Japan: Inoue Nisshō and the ‘Blood-Pledge Corps Incident’, 1932.” Modern Asian Studies 35, No. 3 (2001): 533–564. http://www.jstor.org/stable/313180
John Marks. The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control. Published by Times Books, 1979. https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john/page/n7/mode/2up
Andrew Piechota. “this monstrous soul-life.” Grasshopper Manufacture Zine, August 2018, 3–7. https://ghmzine.gumroad.com/l/ghmzinepdf?layout=profile
Suda, Goichi and Ooka, Masahi. Hand in killer7. Translated by Delta Head Translations. Published by Capcom, August 2005. https://archive.org/details/hand-in-killer7-english-redesign/mode/2up
Akihiko Tanaka and Masayuki Tadokoro. “The 1980s: The Decade of Neoliberalism.” In The History of US–Japan Relations: From Perry to the Present, 193–213. Edited by Makoto Iokibe. Translated by Tosh Minohara. Published in English by Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-3184-7
Elise Tipton. The Japanese Police State: Tokkô in Interwar Japan. Published by University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
Hiromi Tsuruta. “The Bubble Economy and Financial Crisis in Japan.” Translated by Jackie Miyasaka. International Journal of Political Economy 29, No. 1 (1999): 26–48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40470743
Utagawa, Hiroshi. “The ‘Sending-Back’ Rite in Ainu Culture.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 19, No. 2/3 (1992): 255–270. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30234193
Julie Vanderperre. “Declassified: Mind Control at McGill.” The McGill Tribune. http://web.archive.org/web/20230602174218/https://www.thetribune.ca/mind-control-mcgill-mk-ultra/
WD. “THE SILVER CASE: Killing the Past with Kusabi Tetsugoro [redux].” 9 March 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQjOvz6qjDY (Why, I know the person who made this video!)