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Title: Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation by Patrick Drazen ISBN: 1-880656-72-8 Publisher: Consortium Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good information - flawed organization
Comment: As a novice to anime, I found many of the cultural explanations new and useful in understanding some of the themes underlying Japanese animation and Japanese cultural myths in general. On the other hand, the first part of the book is mainly devoted to nudity and sex (p.48 - 104) as if that were the most important aspect of Anime. After reading the author's explanations of Hentai, I went to the internet to find out what all the fuss was about. It turns out to be - nothing! Anime experts place these films into a fringe category that is generally of lower quality and questionable taste. Certainly it is not representative of anime or Japanese culture. So why is it given such prominence in Anime Explosion?
Another problem is the use of acronyms and lingo seems to expect some expertise on the part of the reader. Just what are OAVs anyway?
Other than these problems, the book provides a good introduction to Japanese animation that will surely get the reader to explore further into this fascinating realm of entertainment.
Rating: 1
Summary: Many Words, Few Insights, None Correct
Comment: The book appears at first to be an in-depth review of the anime phenomenon and claims to offer insights into the Japanese understanding of the medium. Unfortunately, once one starts asking questions of his assumptions, the whole structure crumbles. This book operates under the fallacy that what you see in anime reflects the values of the Japanese people (just like "South Park" reflects American values, right?), so we get concepts like "yasashii" thrust at us, and claims like "harmony is the most important thing to the Japanese." He overlooks the concept that the Japanese are not a monolithic people and seems to indicate that all the Japanese think alike on an issue.
Actually, the author seems to base his theory that anime is great on the basis that it's not American and his praises of Japan frequently revolve around knocking American moral values (there are quite a few asides to the evils of "conservative America")
Similar to Susan J Napier's book on anime, this book takes the author's preconceived notions and forcs examples to fit them, even when they don't have the meaning he tries to make them convey.
This would be more tolerable if his writing style was not so imperious, giving the impression that these views were solid and immutable facts instead of opinions
Rating: 1
Summary: uggghhhh
Comment: Anime and manga have to rate as the down side to art and eroticism...The art is childish and bland at best, more the art of someone on LSD and a migraine than true art. The ugliness of women with purple hair and eyes the size of trash cans does little for the imagination; this is the art of anal retentives, pure and simple..
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Title: The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 by Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy ISBN: 1880656647 Publisher: Stone Bridge Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Anime Companion: What's Japanese in Japanese Animation by Gilles Poitras ISBN: 1880656329 Publisher: Stone Bridge Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know by Gilles Poitras ISBN: 1880656531 Publisher: Stone Bridge Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Anime: From Akira to Princess Mononoke : Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan Jolliffe Napier ISBN: 0312238630 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga by Frederik L. Schodt ISBN: 188065623X Publisher: Stone Bridge Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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