Amazon.com 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 focu (more…)
Popularity: 22% [?]
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential reading
This is essential for any anime person, newb or otaku. An in depth history of all anime productions and their creators from the very beginning up through about Y2K.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not quite the reference book I hoped it would be
This edition of The Anime Encyclopedia claims to have over 3,000 entries for shows, studios, creators, and anime history.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worth Reading (good)
This is one of the most efficiant and organized books I have ever recieved and is definitely worth reading.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Only as good as the latest edition
There haven’t been any major format changes or content revisions since the prior edition. More content has simply been added, which is fine, I suppose.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bought it as a gift.
The friend I bought this book for has not put it done since.
I recommend this book especially if you are buying it as a gift and know nothing about Anime…
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good idea, bad execution
The idea of a book like this was a great one, and the fact is you are able to find out about a lot of anime in this book that are completely overlooked, not just by companies in…
5.0 out of 5 stars
the seventh wonder of the anime world
if the first wonder of the anime world is astro boy
osamu tezuka the second
akira the third
hayao miyazaki the fourth
ninja…
5.0 out of 5 stars
the ultimate anime guide
This is the only one of my college text books that I hung onto last year when it was all over. Why? Because i love it so much.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Massive
How did this one pass me by for so long? I’m used to tiny thin books on anime that call themselves “The Complete…” or “The Series Bible of…
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great anime reference tool.
A great job in information on anime shows, but it does give the author’s opinions on the shows (like when a movie critic gives their opinion on a movie, they are not always to a…