Japan’s Anime Revolution! Twenty Animated Films That Changed the World, by Jonathan Clements, will be published in June. The book analyses twenty classic anime films “that help narrate and explain the history of Japanese animation”, including milestones such as Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し) and Akira (アキラ).
Clements is the leading anime authority outside Japan, and has worked on anime translation and distribution for many years, so he discusses each film from an industry insider’s perspective. He also surveys the latest Japanese-language anime scholarship.
Clements is the leading anime authority outside Japan, and has worked on anime translation and distribution for many years, so he discusses each film from an industry insider’s perspective. He also surveys the latest Japanese-language anime scholarship.
Clements wrote the definitive history of anime in 2013. (A more concise book on the subject, 100 Years of Anime, was published last year.) He also co-wrote The Anime Encyclopedia, a uniquely comprehensive guide to thousands of anime titles. His co-author Helen McCarthy wrote Anime!, the first English-language book on the subject.