The Anime Companion 2: More What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?
by Gilles Poitras
Anime Companion (2)
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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, show more 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. show lessTags
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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.
Again, more things I'd never heard of ( including gamma no aboura ( toad oil ) and IN series drinks. )
Again, more things I'd never heard of ( including gamma no aboura ( toad oil ) and IN series drinks. )
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- 791.433 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Types of presentation {class specific films in 791.437}
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- NC1766 .J3 .P652 — Fine Arts Drawing. Design. Illustration Drawing. Design. Illustration Pictorial humor, caricature, etc.
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