EXCERPT Saitō Tamaki’s moécosmic theory of trauma understands the history of anime as an iterated ramification of the inadequacy of standard human rationalisations of sex to cope with the experience of arousal by two-dimensional beings, and the replication, transmission, and refinement of ‘drawn sexuality’115 as a repetition compulsion driven by human culture’s inability to assimilate nijikon, this enduring passion for the less-than-3D…