The Anime Encyclopedia: A century of Japanese animation (3rd revised edition) Available to Purchase

The Anime Encyclopedia, now in its third revision, is meant to be “a major resource on film art and culture in Japan”, according to its promotional blurbs. This is a claim certainly supported because there are very few works which approach the topic of anime from a collective and evaluative standpoint and none as exhaustive as this volume in sheer number of titles covered.

This edition boasts 1,000 new entries not contained in the previous edition and over 4,000 updates and “corrections” (which, it must be noted, makes one ponder the authors’ and editors’ attention to detail in former...