100 Years of Anime, by Matthieu Pinon and Philippe Bunel, was first published in French (Un siècle d’animation japonaise) in 2017, to mark the centenary of anime (Japanese animation). The book’s English translation was published last year.
Jonathan Clements wrote the definitive history of anime in 2013. 100 Years of Anime is nothing like as scholarly as the Clements book — it has no footnotes, and only a very brief annotated bibliography — but it is better illustrated, with colour photographs on almost every page. Pinon and Bunel are also the only other authors, besides Clements, to write a complete 100-year history of anime.
Jonathan Clements wrote the definitive history of anime in 2013. 100 Years of Anime is nothing like as scholarly as the Clements book — it has no footnotes, and only a very brief annotated bibliography — but it is better illustrated, with colour photographs on almost every page. Pinon and Bunel are also the only other authors, besides Clements, to write a complete 100-year history of anime.
Clements also co-wrote The Anime Encyclopedia, a uniquely comprehensive guide to thousands of anime titles. His co-author Helen McCarthy wrote the first English-language book on the subject, Anime! A Beginner’s Guide to Japanese Animation.