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The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation since 1917

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Here is the long-awaited, biggest guide ever, the absolute must-have for every fan, collector, library, and video-store browser. Included are over 2,000 Japanese animation films-from today's "PokA(c)mon," "Tenchi Muyo, "and "Sailor Moon" to the classic "Tetsuwan Atomu" ("Astro Boy") and little-known artistic gems like the anime life of Mozart-with key personnel, running time, studio, alternative titles, cross references, critical comment, and sex/violence warnings. Illustrated and fully indexed.
Jonathan Clements has translated over 70 anime and manga and was editor of "Manga Max" from 1998-2000. Helen McCarthy is former editor of "Anime UK" and "Manga Mania" and author of "The Anime Movie Guide," "Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation," and, with Jonathan Clements, "The Erotic Anime Movie Guide."

592 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2001

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Jonathan Clements is an author, translator, biographer and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Marco Polo, Mao Zedong, Koxinga and Qin Shihuangdi. He also writes for NEO magazine and is the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas.

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1,878 reviews6,304 followers
October 7, 2024
favorites

1. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
pure-hearted Gon follows in his father's footsteps by kicking ass

2. Death Note
when manipulative teen Light writes down your name, you die

3. Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
woman warrior protects a child prince

4. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
plucky humans fight off various oppressors to reclaim Earth

5. Kids on the Slope
jazz, romance, school life, and angst in small town 60s Japan

6. Baccano!
Prohibition bootleggers and immortal alchemists cause a ruckus

7. Mob Psycho 100
teen psychic only wants what's best for everyone, plus muscles

8. Attack on Titan
sturm und drang in a walled country under siege

9. Mononoke
traveling medicine-seller solves supernatural mysteries

10. Fullmetal Alchemist
in a steampunk world, two brothers try to literally become whole

11. Humanity Has Declined
...and so cute, sinister little fairies have inherited the earth

12. Mushi-Shi
the mushi live beside us; the mushi-shi Ginko studies them

13. Haibane Renmei
wings and a halo and somewhere to go, eventually

decent

Another overrated but the unnerving premise fascinates
Assassination Classroom
Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror
Berserk (1997) good, despite the incredibly jarring "ending"
Black Butler: Book of Circus & Book of the Atlantic
Boogiepop Phantom incredibly complex & layered - rewatch!
Elfen Lied
Ergo Proxy fascinating visuals but the story became boring af
Flowers of Evil intense & eerie but the two leads are annoying af
From the New World
Fruits Basket (2001) the most doormatty of doormats
Future Diary genuinely repulsive, but still, what a spectacle
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
Junji Ito Collection
Knights of Sidonia
Lychee Light Club
Made in Abyss so beautiful, so grueling
One-Punch Man affectless hero finds fighting villains to be... eh
Paranoia Agent insecure? Lil' Slugger will beat your fears away!
The Perfect Insider
The Promised Neverland
Rance: Desert Guardian (hentai)
Saga of Tanya the Evil
Soul Eater
Terror in Resonance
Utakoi
Whey They Cry: Higurashi cycles of bloody slaughter in a village

disappointments or unfinished

Aoharu x Machinegun
Black Butler & Black Butler: Book of Murder
Blood-C fantastic monsters but nauseatingly insipid & sadistic
Btooom!
Bubuki Buranki
A Certain Magical Index
Classroom☆Crisis
Corpse Party
Eden of the East
Fencer of Minerva (hentai)
Genesis of Aquarion
Heroic Age
Higurashi: When They Cry - Gou completely unnecessary
Higurashi: When They Cry - Sotsu slightly better than Gou
The Irregular at Magic High School quite stylish though
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure OTT fun but just too stupid
K
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Little Witch Academia
Nagi-asu/A Lull in the Sea
Overlord
Planetes
Polar Bear Cafe super super sweet but eventually too too much
Psycho-Pass
Shiki
Shomin Sample
Summer Time Rendering
Terra Formars
To Love-ru so this is what ecchi is like. weird. porn for kids??
Umineko: When They Cry

currently watching

Parasyte: The Maxim
Fairy Tail
The Tatami Galaxy
Hunter x Hunter (rewatching)

there's an excess of shounen but I've always been an emotionally immature sort of guy and hey it gives me something to excitedly discuss with one of my nephews. it is important to have some interests in common! I plan on prioritizing the josei titles that catch my eye because Kids on the Slope was amazing. seinen fits squarely within my own tastes so no challenge there in finding titles. although I liked Fruits Basket, it has been tougher finding shoujo that interests me - but if I can enjoy YA, I know there must be more out there that I'd like.

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February 2017:

Anime is one of my favorite things so I've been considering off and on whether to buy the hardcover or kindle version of this book. My main experience is with anime films; tv anime is a more recent love, thanks to services like Hulu and Crunchyroll (and of course torrents, but shhh), so I've wanted to arm myself with a good reference tool. I'm glad I didn't choose the actual book and its high price tag because this has been a bit of a disappointment so far. I've read better reviews on websites like Anime Review, Them, Anime Network, Anime Now, and Lost in Anime; I've found better recommendations on My Anime List. It probably is just a case of wishing the authors spent more time on shows that I like or am interested in. My understanding of this third edition is that it has excised the rating system and some of the stronger opinions in favor of more neutral language, and that it has corrected a lot of mistakes. I wonder if I would have preferred an edition with those strong opinions intact because the dryness makes the writing rather uninteresting, especially after reading the passionate entries on the websites I've mentioned. Also there are just too many hentai reviews! I'm not against the genre by any means but the guide reads like an encyclopedia on tv series that also includes every adult cable show ever made. It is a bit laughable and eventually wearying. Still, I've appreciated many of the entries, particularly the thematic ones, and I've picked up a handful of recommendations.

I'm not sure when or if I will ever finish this one, so I think I will use this review to hold a space for lists of favorites and the like. Television series only, at least for now. I guess I could just use My Anime List, but because I tend to get excited about websites and then completely forget about them a few months later, Goodreads it is.
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1 review
November 19, 2015
Jonah's review already summarized one of the main failures of this book; the writers are shamefully ignorant pseudo-intellectuals trying to review anime from the perspective of ~animation experts~ despite lacking the most basic knowledge of it. Helen McCarthy and Jonathan Clements are, putting it simply, emperors with no clothing; they made their way into "anime academia" by simply having the right connections, but their critical input is ultimately less valuable or honest than even that of the typical IMDB or MyAnimeList review. About as insightful as the average 4chan "shitsux" troll post, the difference between 4chan's /a/ and The Anime Encyclopedia being that, if you trudge through the garbage, you may find nuggets of gold in the former.

The 4chan troll comparison can be taken really far, to the point where Clements and McCarthy deem works they have never fully experienced to be garbage; they dismiss the hugely revolutionary Devilman as poor despite getting the most basic plot information wrong, stating that Ryo is "the son of Satan" and mistaking Amon's appearance in his titular OVA for Satan himself. They unironically claim that Go Nagai's manga Abashiri Family "recalls" an OVA that came out much later. They "inform" you that Violence Jack started in Weekly Manga Goraku, despite first running in a completely different, shonen magazine and turning seinen (along with sometimes getting pointlessly guro-like to take needless advantage of the new, "edgier" publication & older target audience, something they mistakenly associate with the entire franchise) in the 80s run. They quickly move past the amazing, satirically biting and shockingly enough in its later parts *strikingly emotional* Shin Chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back film while getting the story synopsis completely wrong.

Helen McCarthy lacks even the most basic observational skill required to be an even vaguely satisfactory reviewer of a visual medium; in a podcast, she once claimed that Howl's Moving Castle was animated on traditional cels and that Shinya Ohira's stylistic animation for it was simply "paint spilling over".

There is no reason to financially support this book in an age where countless encyclopedic websites exist. It's filled to the brim with misinformation and half-truths, it's pointless, and above all else it's oddly mean-spirited and holier-than-thou for something so blatantly ignorant. McCarthy and Clements are the stereotypical pseudo-intellectual "scholars" of those often-misunderstood mediums commonly considered "nerdy" in our society; the Japanese cartoon equivalents of the pathetic video game reviewer attempting to explain to you how Bioshock Infinite is "the Citizen Kane of gaming" because it tackles racism in a childish one-dimensional manner while using a slew of "big words" he/she doesn't actually understand, but sound "literary" enough to make them sound smart to the easily manipulated. The failed English major who, at some point in time, genuinely cared for the nerdy medium he/she is currently covering, but has long since stopped giving a damn, yet is nonetheless forced to focus on the only thing they can fool themselves and others into thinking they are knowledgeable about in order to put some food on the table. They spread the copy+pasted, misinformed, uninterested opinions of their shameless has-been peers while keeping animation commentary an impenetrable, cronyism-filled clique.

Long story short: if you're curious how bad it is and whether my claims of inaccuracies and poor reviews pretending to be encyclopedic entries are correct, simply read the legal online preview. Read the words of actual animation fans with actual animation knowledge and, above all else, true respect for the medium. Not the half-hearted recommendations of the "anime critic" peers of this books' writers, who are financially obligated to praise low-quality writing in order to defend their own careers.
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5,211 reviews178 followers
June 3, 2023
I have been a fan of anime since 1999 now so I have had some time to familiarise myself with quite a few titles, from fairly well known ones like Ghibli's to lesser knowns I've stumbled across from friends or random showings at conventions. This book's listed all the one's I can think of, and plenty more besides. Not all get pages and pages of text, but hey, you can't expect the authors to have watched and deeply analysed EVERYTHING, and there's a lot of interesting and enlightening stuff here.
There's a slight review in many of the descriptions, usually enough to serve as a warning or reccomendation. Personally I'm really enjoying the commentary, I think it's quite funny in parts... but then if you've watched much anime you'll know it can be quite hard to do a significant number of descriptions seriously, and when you include more adult anime - well, it was surreal enough already.
There's also some commentry on themes of anime and other stuff, which is probably really interesting and useful for people properly interested, but I've spent most of my time looking up anime I've watched so far. I did read a bit about ratings of anime (as in people tuned in, or however it's measured these days). That was very illuminating, I'd always assumed anime must be highly rated in Japan, and also I completely bought that GTO (live action) was the highest rated series in Japan. Surprise!
But really, this is a very good book, and VERY UP TO DATE considering others I've read. It's up to sometime in 2006: 1917 to 2006 doesn't seem a bad span to me!
I can imagine a book like this might confuse a newcomer to anime, given the amount of content. But also, each description will ususally contain a mention of an anime of similar plot or style, giving thozse exploring the genre a bit of a tour, without having to ask the advice of someone else who m,ight have COMPLETELY different tastes?
Anyway, like I've said, I've only had this book a day, so maybe I'm speaking to soon. All I know is that having had it this long has given me more motivation to write a review than I think I've had in a long time.
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1,219 reviews93 followers
October 29, 2010
While I love my encylopedia to tatters, I will give the average reader some warnings about this book & a bit of history. In the past this encyclopedia was a bit lambasted for having a ratings scale, which not all fans agreed upon. (Because hey... just because I think that one anime is terrible doesn't mean that it actually is.) Then there were "weasel words" tucked into other reviews, which was far from being as unbiased as an encyclopedia should be. (I have to admit, I didn't see them until someone else pointed them out to me.)


In any case, most of this has been addressed. There's still some opinions in the reviews, which I dislike, but it's not as overly blatant as it was in the past. The average reader will have to be careful to take some of the reviews with a grain of salt, as like I said above- just because one person didn't like it doesn't mean that you won't. (Even if that person is writing an encyclopedia.) That being said, the book is far more efficient than it was in it's first few incarnations. You'll have to keep an eye out for errors, since there are some entries that apparently don't match up with the proper info such as episode numbers & such. (This actually isn't all that terrible, as many series start off saying they'll have X episodes but then are either cut or lengthened to X episodes.)

I recommend this for most anime fans out there. The die-hards probably won't need this, but this should be a nice addition for the new anime fans out there!
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109 reviews28 followers
December 9, 2011
From the wikipedia entry on the encyclopedia: Generally speaking, unlike dictionary entries, which focus on linguistic information about words, encyclopedia articles focus on factual information to cover the thing or concept for which the article name stands.

Indeed, factual information is what I was expecting, and it was the reason I purchased this tome, sight-unseen, from amazon some time ago. What I found instead are biased, snide capsule reviews.

I understand how touchy fans get about things like this, having their favourite shows dismissed as rubbish, or the viewers themselves dismissed as "...old enough to vote, but somehow cursed with the emotional maturity of a child.", and if I had known I was buying a book of dismissive opinions, I wouldn't feel inclined to scorn it as I do.

Another very dissatisfied reviewer on amazon suggested that it is a useful tool for finding new shows based on the production staff listed in the index, if nothing else.

I recommend sticking with the online version of what I wanted: aniDB





1 review
March 23, 2024
If we were to hand out stars for effort, then the Anime Encyclopedia would certainly be worthy of at least one. Unfortunately, that immense effort is not matched by the quality of the writing or the factual accuracy of the entries. It's important to recognize that for some this book will be their first introduction to many key concepts, names, and series from anime history. They deserve better.

Delving into a topic that one is familiar with quickly reveals a laundry list of errors, and those mistakes rob the encyclopedia of its authority by casting a spell of doubt over the information presented. In one bizarre case, video game company Type-Moon (Tsukihime, Fate) is ascribed responsibility for the creation of the popular comedy manga Lucky Star, despite the lack of connection between them.

These scattershot errors litter the book like glaring beacons. There is no doubt in my mind that there are many more that I missed due to my ignorance, though unlike the authors I am more than capable of recognizing that I am unfamiliar with certain areas of anime history. Such prudence would have been appreciated on their part.

What is emphasized in each entry is seemingly random. Some influential shows get little more than a brief plot summary where many of those previously mentioned errors manifest. Longer descriptions may trace the staff to strange places, or occlude important creative forces behind a given project for seemingly no reason. Gen Urobuchi goes unmentioned in the entry for Madoka Magica, despite being the lead writer and the most recognizable name behind the series.

The book attempts to balance opinion and factuality and fails at both. The explorations of the context behind certain inclusions are left unexplored, replaced instead with dismissive needling that betrays a bias against certain genres and ideas. These types of comments aren't uncommon on the web - but here you don't have to pay for the privilege. It really shows that an encyclopedia, intended to be read nonlinearly, is not the place to try and develop an ongoing narrative about a genre or concept.

Despite the Encyclopedia's oddly judgemental approach to mild sexual content (particularly shows that feature multiple romantic interests) a large number of entries are dedicated to less-than-notable pornographic OVAs, which do not provide anything in the way of context for both anime history or the staff who worked on them.

The authors also steadfastly refuse to engage with the vocabulary of the industry, including a notable segment where they levy an odd conspiracy theory at the anime industry for using the acronym "OVA" instead of direct-to-video as a marketing ploy. Whether that belief has any firm ground is ultimately irrelevant - 'OVA' is a term that cannot be evaded when engaging in a deeper discussion of anime as a medium and industry, as it is collectively used by fans both within Japan and overseas.

With dedicated online databases keeping track of staff and studios in an easily searchable format, the use case for this Encyclopedia has been reduced significantly. The errors that litter the book from front to back are a fatal deficiency, and the opinions inside rarely provide insight deeper than that of an online review. Even a new 2015 edition can't remove the spectre of the early 2000s that haunts these sordid pages - filled with pointed assumptions and slack-jawed rubbernecking that pastiches the industry as animals flinging their faeces in a zoo exhibit, to be observed, mocked, and belittled.
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2 reviews
March 23, 2024
This "Enclopedia" is little more than a list of shows that the writers don't know anything about. They constantly make mistakes, which means this book is not useful as a reference in any way, as it can't be trusted to be correct when they do such things as forget an entire season of a show exists, calling Nanoha Strikers the second season and completely forgetting that Nanoha A's, the actual second season, exists.

The overviews of the series read like reviews more than an encyclopedia, I didn't come here to see what you personally thought of the Adventures of Kotetsu, just stick to the facts please.

And most damning and baffling to this book, is that it is full to the brim of literal pornography entries. who is this for, genuinely? who picked up "the anime encyclopedia" to read entries on "Anal Vampire" or "project boobs" or "lustful nights at the cuckold village"?

And, despite being padded to hell and back with porn shorts nobody cares about, every time a show dares have any fanservice but not be outright pornography, our incredibly biased writers give out about it, complaining about harem tropes in shows that are not harems, etc.

this book is incredibly highly rated, but it's actually useless if you have more than a passing knowledge of anime.
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13.4k reviews270 followers
March 21, 2010
Ensiklopedi ini sangat cocok jadi primbon para anime-otaku, meskipun data terbaru hanya sampai tahun 2005 (tentu saja, kalau mau update terus setiap saat mendingan langganan majalah Newtype atau majalah lokal Animonster sekalian). Buat mereka yang awam anime, buku ini bisa menambah wawasan dan pengetahuan agar tidak menganggap animasi hanya tontonan bagi anak-anak.

Industri anime sudah menjadi industri raksasa di Jepang, hingga pangsa pasarnya bukan hanya anak-anak dan remaja, tapi juga dewasa. Bahkan sampai ada anime porno (baca: Hentai) segala, yang baru baca sinopsisnya di ensiklopedi ini saja para feminist bisa murka, saking jalan ceritanya selalu 100% merendahkan kaum wanita.

Membaca setiap entry-nya dari A sampai Z, kita juga bisa mengetahui bahwa ternyata budaya animasi Jepang dan AS masih sangat berbeda, di mana seperti di Indonesia, di AS animasi masih dianggap tontonan khusus anak-anak. Anime yang lolos standar tontonan anak-anak dan remaja di Jepang seperti Detektif Conan, One Piece dan Naruto misalnya, di AS harus disensor ketat karena banyaknya adegan kekerasan dan berdarah-darah (sudah pasti, karena Detektif Conan kan rata-rata investigasi pembunuhan, jadi banyak mayat berdarah-darah, dan One Piece/Naruto kan pertarungan antar bajak laut/ninja, tentu full kekerasan dan banyak yang mati juga). Mungkin di Indonesia sensornya tidak seketat AS, tapi ada saja yang mengecam tayangan One Piece dan Naruto, yang dianggap membawa pengaruh buruk buat anak-anak (yang masih belum bisa membedakan fiksi dan kenyataan, barangkali). Sementara tayangan anime yang di Jepang ditujukan buat kalangan dewasa macam Crayon Shinchan malah tidak dikritik, padahal bisa saja anak-anak Indonesia meniru kenakalan dan pervert,-nya... XD

Anyway, ensiklopedi ini mengingatkanku pada masa aku masih tergila-gila pada anime, rajin mengumpulkan dan menonton fansubnya. Fullmetal Alchemist, Gungrave, Hellsing, Srcyed, Gundam, Trigun, Bleach, Naruto, and many many more... Hanya karena faktor waktu yang terbatas sekarang aku cuma mengumpulkan manga saja (tapi tetap update berita anime dari majalah sih). Jadi kepingin nonton ulang semuanya ...

*just wishful thinking...*
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163 reviews10 followers
September 17, 2013
Clements is not shy about sharing his opinions of the entries.
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2,981 reviews108 followers
December 19, 2023
the opinions are bizarre and loopy
the mistakes in the first two editions were massive

they eliminated the ratings system, because they were so lousy at it, which sadly makes this book mediocre at best.

Basically the book is the opinions of what one guy thinks is what good animation should be.

As long as you understand what's culturally siginificant and what's popular on different levels.

pretty much, everything the guy writes lacks nuance
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1,186 reviews30 followers
September 25, 2018
I read the 2006 edition, so as happens with any encyclopedia, it became outdated. I guess for what it is, it's pretty good, but also a little lackluster: I would have preferred more colour and/or more pictures. It could've been a great coffee table book if they had had a bigger budget.
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Author 4 books1 follower
August 18, 2022
This book is a comprehensive compendium on the anime industry and essential works of the media. I bought it for my theses, but I kept it for the sheer amount of information and knowledge it has.
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1,107 reviews3 followers
November 16, 2017
791.4334 CLE 2015

This is 3rd Revised Edition on 2015, it is for anime, not for manga books. I did not finished it, just look at some recent anime I watched, like Paprika (2006 film), Code Geass, Nabari. See evernote.
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2 reviews
January 23, 2022
It's very helpful, especially when I want to learn more about hidden gems and forgotten animes
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June 27, 2013
Clements, J., & McCarthy, H. (2001, September 1). The anime encyclopedia: A guide to japanese animation since 1917. New York, NY: Stone Bridge Press.

Citation by: Ashley D. Brown
Type of Reference: Encyclopedia
Call Number: NC1766 .J3 C53 2001

Brief description:
An expansive encyclopedia of more than 2000 anime films and TV series. Each entry includes a short synopsis of the anime feature, commentary, details about the creative staff, and comments on the work’s significance to anime history. A bibliography, index, and illustrations are also included to complete the comprehensive information.

Citation for where the item has been reviewed:
David, M. L., & Wayne, P.L. (2002, January 1). The book review: The anime encyclopedia a guide to japanese animation since 1917. School Library Journal Reviews, Retrieved from http://bookverdict.com/details.xqy?ur...

Criteria
Content/Scope: An encyclopedia of anime TV series and movies, including art and history of anime.
Accuracy/Authority/Bias: This encyclopedia is positively reviewed by School Library Journal.
Arrangement/Presentation: The encyclopedia is organized alphabetically with 2000 entries. Each entry includes a short synopsis of the feature, commentary, details about the creative staff, and significance of the work to anime history. A bibliography, index, and illustrations complete the reference work.
Relation to other works: The only anime encyclopedia available, it relates to all of the manuals and handbooks on how to draw anime in the library.
Accessibility/Diversity: Expands knowledge of anime beyond the art in the growing culture of anime-lovers in our school.
Cost: $13.72
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218 reviews15 followers
February 21, 2022
This book's listed all the one's I can think of and plenty more besides. Not all get pages and pages of text, but hey, you can't expect the authors to have watched and deeply analysed EVERYTHING, and there's a lot of interesting and enlightening stuff here. But really, this is a very good book and VERY UP TO DATE!
There's a slight review in many of the descriptions, usually enough to serve as a warning or recommendation. Personally, I'm really enjoying the commentary, I think it's quite funny in parts... but then if you've watched much anime you'll know it can be quite hard to do a significant number of descriptions seriously, and when you include more adult anime - well, it was surreal enough already. There's also some commentary on themes of anime and other stuff, which is probably really interesting and useful for people properly interested, but I've spent most of my time looking up anime I've watched so far. I did read a bit about ratings of anime (as in people tuned in, or however it's measured these days). That was very illuminating, I'd always assumed anime must be highly rated in Japan, and also I completely bought that GTO (live-action) was the highest-rated series in Japan. Surprise!
Anyway, as I've said, I've only had this book a day, so maybe I'm speaking too soon. All I know is that having had it this long has given me more motivation to write a review than I think I've had in a long time.
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42 reviews
March 11, 2014
An extremely informative, highly enjoyable read. If you are a die hard Anime fan, than this is the must own book of your life. Filled with a lifetime's worth of information and stocked chock full of 1000's of fun to read entries on Anime films, directors, studios and important events and happenings in Anime's past and present. Overall, I highly recommend this book.
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269 reviews12 followers
August 15, 2020
A wide range of information on, quite literally, EVERY anime up until 2006. Feature Lengths, series, OVA's, specials, shorts ect... even the ones you don't really want to know about. My only qualm is that it's now quite a few years out of date. It's taken a while, but I think another revised edition was released just this year.
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8 reviews1 follower
April 11, 2011
I've naturally not read it from cover to cover, it's an encyclopaedia. However, the use I've had from it, in my eyes, counts as read.

It's a great read and very informative; however, it's not a cover to cover book. Reference only.
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