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The Anime Companion 2: More What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?

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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 num ...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published June 1st 2005 by Stone Bridge Press
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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. ...more
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