The Anime Companion 2: More What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?

by Gilles Poitras

This long-awaited “companion” volume boasts over 500 all-new glossary-style entries to help you decipher anime’s distinctive content, images and cultural motifs. Ranging from Aikido to Zero fighters (with Japanese Mountain Vegetables in between), Gilles Poitras covers the minutiae of anime in fascinating detail, including illustrations, anime images, film citations and numerous references to the related art of manga. More than a guide, The Anime Companion 2 is a pop survey of Japanese art, kitsch, history, food and daily life. Now with entries in kanji and English, the Anime Companion remains the best friend an otaku ever had. Volume 1 was chosen for New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age List. Gilles Poitras is a librarian in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference

176 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2005

Reviews

[Julia Bilderback · Rating 5 out of 5]

An older book now that uses references to a lot of animes that weren't that popular even back then and many modern anime readers may never have heard of. It goes over key items, places, people,events, cultural ways, and food that appear in anime. I think this would be a good reference guide for someone that is new to both anime and Japanese culture.

[Rai]

Essentially an encyclopedia. Would have been useful to look up specific terms but it's obvi0usly obsolete now. Still, a good idea for its time.

[Brendan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Again, more things I'd never heard of ( including gamma no aboura ( toad oil ) and IN series drinks. )