This readable, wide-ranging analysis brings you quickly up to speed on the ever-changing relationship between Japan and the United States. Drawing on history, cultural commentary, and opinion, the author portrays two nations in conflict yet increasingly connected.

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 all the minute details of anime in fascinating detail, including illustrations, anime images, film citations, and numerous references to the related art of manga.

The first book to unlock the door to total anime consciousness! Over 500 encyclopedic entries with commentary and film references -- let the Anime Companion be your guide!

The prequel to the wildly successful Anime Companion, a new guide for every kind of fan is now available! What makes Japanese animation Japanese? Who's got the anime goods? What's it all mean anyway? Answering just about every question a fan has, Anime Essentials is an easy-to-read and fun-to-look-at overview of the pop culture phenomenon sweeping America.

Suddenly anime is exploding! But where did Japanese animation come from, and what does it all mean? Written for fans, culture watchers, and perplexed outsiders, this is an engaging tour of the anime universe, from its roots in traditional Japanese culture and art, its major themes (war and reincarnation, yaoi/yuri/fanboy love, giant robots, samurai) and contemporary expressions. Click for more!

In Anime Mania, famous cartoonist, teacher, and best-selling author Christopher Hart demonstrates how any comic book artist can become expert in this wonderful style of animation. Step by step, he details how to draw the coolest anime characters from the widest selection of popular styles: high-tech cyberpunks; teens with troubled relationships; and mighty monsters, fantasy warriors, and giant robots.

Posters, programs and flyers that helped launch a revolution in animated film! Over 160 full-color reproductions introduce the world's most-loved anime characters in their original Japanese designs. Includes the best of Akira, Dragon Ball Z, Lupin III, Urusei Yatsura, Space Battleship Yamato, Mobile Suit Gundam and the Academy Award-winning Studio Ghibli.

Inspired by the soaring popularity of anime and the trivia sensation "You Don't Know Jack," this series is a feast of challenging puzzlers to keep fans guessing and groaning. This first volume starts easy and goes insane, with 500 brain-popping questions and answers covering all the major genres. Click for more!

Test wits, spark debate, and eventually drive yourself crazy! This second volume is packed full of questions to make the true otaku groan, but it only focuses on what the author considers to be the top 20 anime of all time! Click for more!

This comprehensive volume covers all the anime produced in Japan during the Sixties, the Seventies and most of the Eighties -- including not only the movies and OVAs, but also the TV series and not only those that were popular or translated in English, but even the most obscure anime! Click for more!

North Side features art from such beloved series as Clover, Magic Knight Rayearth, Legend of Chun Hyang, CLAMP in Wonderland, and many others. Also included: original CLAMP artwork, the original comic Princess Mokona of the CLAMP Country (featuring the CLAMP artists themselves), a CLAMP interview and a complete catalogue of all featured images with a description of each.

South Side features art from such manga classics as Man of Many Faces, Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders, Clamp School Detectives, Suki, Wish, CLAMP School Paranormal Investigators, Miyuki-chan in Wonderland, The One I Love, Shirahime-Syo, and Legal Drug. Also included in this sumptuous collector's edition are original Clamp artwork, a how-to-draw-manga section and a complete catalogue of all featured images with a description of each.