The Anime Encyclopedia - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845765001 ISBN 13: 9781845765002

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, 2007

Synopsis

This long-awaited, fully detailed and updated guide to Japanese animation since 1917 is required reading for every fan, collector and moviegoer.

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Review

In this important book, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy present an enormous amount of information about 2,000 series and features, detailing their plots and relationships to other anime properties. In these areas, the book is definitive, and readers can only wish a comparable volume existed for American animation. The authors are less sure about non-Japanese influences (Cowboy Bebop owes more to noir detective films than to Route 66), and they focus more on storylines and the business of anime than on visuals. They don't discuss the influence of American Saturday morning TV on early anime designs (Speed Racer, the component series of Robotech) or the art nouveau styling in Revolutionary Girl Utena. The editorial evaluations are much harsher than McCarthy's The Anime Movie Guide: some of the most popular anime series in America--Tenchi, Evangelion, Ranma 1/2--receive sharp criticism. The result is a book that anime fans will either love or love to argue with. --Charles Solomon

From the Publisher

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Edition details

• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845765001
• ISBN 13: 9781845765002
• Binding: Paperback