Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

from Jessica_Olin

Caveat: I haven't actually read the whole book, but I've read enough of it to write the kind of review I typically type up about books like this.I'm going to be using this book as a text in a freshmen writing class I'm teaching. The class will use "cartoons as a reflection of society" as its focu...

from empress8411

I read this knowing nothing about anime, other than the usual popular opinion that anime was weird. I was surprised. Not only was this book easy to easy to read for someone who knew so little, but it helped me understand why anime is a unique art form. From this book, I was able to start watching...

from Ravenari

This book was indispensable during the writing of my thesis on the Shinto themes in the corpus of Hayao Miyazaki's feature animations. Not enough serious research has been done into the impacts of Japanese Animation - let alone its increasing popularity of anime in Western society and the potenti...

from Ravenari

This book was indispensable during the writing of my thesis on the Shinto themes in the corpus of Hayao Miyazaki's feature animations. Not enough serious research has been done into the impacts of Japanese Animation - let alone its increasing popularity of anime in Western society and the potenti...