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The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition
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Table of Contents

The Contents is too long to list, but can be summarized:

3500 entries plus approximately 100 biographical entries and a few dozen thematic entries, such as:

Argot and Jargon
Censorship and Localization
Comedy
Documentaries and History
Early Anime
Erotica and Pornography
Fantasy and Fairy Tales
Foreign Influences

A very partial list of films included is:

Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Isamu
Coyote Ragtime Show
Craft of Hypnosis, The
Crayon Shin-chan
Crazy Family Diary
Cream Lemon
Creamy Mami
Crest of the Stars
Crime of Passion
Crimson Climax
Crimson Wolf
Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth
Cromatie High
Cross Game
Crows
Crush Gear Turbo
Crusher Joe
Cry for Our Beautiful World
Cry of the Dragon
Crying Freeman
Crystal Triangle
Cube x Cursed x Curious
Cubitus
Custom Slave
Cutey Honey
Cuticle Detective Inaba
Cutter's Story
Cyber City Oedo 808
Cyber Fantasy Flowers
Cyber Team in Akihabara
Cyberformula GPX
Cybernetics Guardian
Cybersix
Cyborg 009
Cybot Robotchi
D. Gray Man
D.I.C.E.
D-1 Devastator
D3 Series
D4 Princess
Da Capo
Daa! Daa! Daa!
Daddy Long-Legs
Dagger of Kamui
Dagon
Daiakuji: Xena Buster
Daichis, The
Daigander
Daiguard
Daitarn 3
Dallos
Dance in the Vampire Bund
Dance Till Tomorrow
Dancer, The
Dancing with Dad
Dancougar
Dandoh!!
Dangaioh
Dangaizer Three
Danganronpa the Animation
Dangard Ace
Dangerous Grandpa
Dante's Inferno
Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
Darcrows
Dark Cat
Dark Chapel
Dark Future
Dark Knight Ingrid
Dark Love
Dark Myth
Dark Night's Drama
Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives, A
Dark Shell
Dark Soldier D
Dark Tours
Dark Warrior
Darker than Black
Darkside Blues
Darling
Dartanius
Dash Kappei
Dash! Shikiro
Date A-Live
Day Break Illusion
Day I Bought a Star, The
Day the Earth Shook, The
Dazzle
Dead Heat
Dead Leaves
Deadman Wonderland
DearS
Death Note
Debt Sisters
Debts of Desire
Debut
Debutante Detectives
Deep Blue Fleet
Deep Voice
Deko Boko Friends
Delinquent in Drag
Delpower X
Deltora Quest
Demon Beast Invasion
Demon Beast Phalanx
Demon City Shinjuku
Demon Fighter Kocho
Demon Hunter
Demon King Daimao
Demon Lord Dante
Demon Prince Enma
Demon Warrior Koji
Demonbane
Demonic Liger
Denno Coil
Depravity
Descendants of Darkness
Desert Island Story, The
Desert Punk
Desert Rose
Desperate Carnal Housewives
Destined for Love
Detatoko Princess
Detective Academy Q
Detonator Orgun
Detroit Metal City
Devadasy
Devil and the Princess
Devil Dad
Devil Hunter Yohko
Devil is a Part-Timer, The
Devil May Cry
Devilman
Diabolus
Diamond Daydreams
Diary of Anne Frank
Digi Charat
Digi Girl Pop
Digimon Adventure
Digital Devil Story
Dinosaur King
Dioxin Summer
Dirty by the Dozen
Dirty Laundry
Dirty Pair
Dirty Thoughts
Discipline
Disgaea
Dispatches from the Spirit World
Divergence Eve
Divine Changeling Enchantment
DNA Hunter
DNA Sights 999.9
DNA2
DNAngel
Do You Know the Milfing Man
Doctor Chichibuyama
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Fabre the Detective
Doctor Mambo & Jibako the Thief
Doctor Shameless
Doctor Slump
Dodge Danpei
Dog and Scissors
Dog Days
Dog of Flanders
Dog Soldier: Shadows o/t Past
Dogtanian & the 3 Muskehounds
Dogtato
Dokaben
Dokkan Robotendon
Dokkiri Doctor
Dokkoida!?
Dokuro-chan
Dollimog
Domain of Murder
Dominion
Don Chuck
Don Dracula
Don Quixote
Don! Brutal Water Margin
Donkikko
Don't Give Up: Ma Ken Dou
Don't Leave Me Alone Daisy
Doomed Megalopolis
Door into Summer
Doraemon
Dorataro
Dorei Maid Princess
Dororo
Dororon Enma
Dorvack
Dotanba's Modern Manners
Doteraman
Double Wish
Double-J
Dougram
Doujin Work
Download
Downtown
Dracula: Sovereign o/t Damned
Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker
Dragon Ball
Dragon Century
Dragon Chronicle
Dragon Crisis
Dragon Drive
Dragon Fist
Dragon Half
Dragon Knight
Dragon League
Dragon Pink
Dragon Rider
Dragon Slayer
Dragon Warrior
Dragonar
Dragonaut: The Resonance
Dragon's Heaven
Dragoon
Dream Dimension Hunter Fandora
Dream Eater Merry
Dream Eater:Tsurumiku Style Games Production
Dream Hunter Rem
Dream Note
Dream User
Dreamstar Button Nose
Dreamy Crayon Kingdom
Dreamy Urashima
Drifting Clouds
DT Eightron
Du Ziqun
Dual
Duel Masters
Dumpling Brothers, The
Dunbine (Aura Battler)
Durarara
Dvine [Luv]
Dynagiga
Dyogrammaton
Eagle Sam
Ear of the Yellow Dragon
EARLY ANIME: 1917-1931
Early Reins
Earth Story: Telepath 2500
Earthian
Easy Cooking Animation
Eat with Bagetsu
Eat-Man
E-chan the Ninja
Eden of the East
Eden's Bowy
Educational Training
ef: A Tale of Memories
Efficace
Ehrgeiz
Eight Clouds Rising
Eiji
Eiken
Eko Eko Azarak
EL
El Hazard
Elec-King The Animation
Electric Girl and the Youth
Electromagnetic Girlfriend
Elementalors
Elementar Gerad
Elementhunters
Elephant Train Arrived, the
Eleven Cats
Elf 17
Elf Princess Nina
Elf Princess Rane
Elfen Lied
Elfy
Ellcia
Elven Bride
Elves of the Forest
Emblem Take Two
Embracing Love: A Cicada in Winter
Emerald Princess
Emily of New Moon
Emma
Emperor of the Plum Planet
Emperor of the South Side
Encouragement of Crime
End of Summer
Endless Serenade
Engage Planet Kiss Dum
Equation of the Rotten Teacher
Ergo Proxy
Erotic Torture Chamber
E's Otherwise
Escaflowne
Esper Mami
Etchiis
Eternal Filena
Euphoria
Eureka 7
Evangelion
Even More Ghost Stories
Even Then I Love My Wife
Every Day's A Sunday
Everyday Tales of a Cat God
Evil Woman Ruler
Excel Saga
Exdriver D
Exile Generation
Exper Zenon
Exploding Campus Guardress
Explorer Woman Ray
Explosive Goro (?)
Eyeshield 21
F
F3: Frantic, Frustrated & Female
Fabled Underground People
Fafner
Fairground in the Stars
Fairy King
Fairy Musketeers
Fairy Tail
Fake
Familiar of Zero, The
Family of Debauchery
Famous World Fairy Tales
Famous World Fairy Tales
Fancy Lala
Fantascope tylostoma
Fantasista Doll
Fantastic Children
Far East of Eden
Fast Break
Fatal Fury
Fate/Zero
Fault
Feather Stares at the Dark
Female Student
Fencer of Minerva
F-Force
Fifth Ice Age, The
Fight! Ospa
Fight! Puter
Fight: Spirit of the Sword
Fighter
Fighting Beauty Oolong
Fighting Foodons
Fighting of Ecstasy
Fighting Spirit
Figure 17: Tsubasa & Hikaru
Final Approach
Final Fantasy
Fire Emblem
Fire Fighter Daigo
Fire Tripper
Fireball
Firestorm
First Kiss Story
First Loves
First Squad
First Tram in Hiroshima
Fist of the Blue Sky
Fist of the North Star
Five Card
Five Centimetres per Second
Five Numbers
Five Star Stories
Flag
Flag!
Flame of Recca
Flashback
Flat Broke Sisters
FLCL
Fleshdance
Flight of the White Wolf
Flint the Time Detective
Floating Material
Flower and Snake
Flower Angel
Flower Kappa
Flower Witch Marybell
Flowering Youth
Flowers of Evil
Fly On, Dreamers!
Fly Peek!
Fly Pegasus!
Fly! Machine Hiryu
Flying Ghost Ship
Fobia
Foolish Test Slave
For Real
Forbidden Love
Force Five
Foreign Love Affair, A
Forest Warrior Bonolon
Fortune Arterial
Fortune Quest
Forza Hidemaru
Four-Leaf Clover
Foxes of Chironup
Foxwood Tales
Fractale
Frankenstein
Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor
Freckles Pooch
Free Kick (for Tomorrow)
Free!
Freedom
Freezing
Fried Octopus Man
Frightful News
Frisky Girl
Friten-kun
From Now On, This is Me!
From the Apennines to the Andes
From the Apennines to the Andes
From the New World
From Up on Poppy Hill
Fruit Basket
Fruits Cup
Fujiko F. Fujio's Little Weirdness
Fujilog
Fukubuki Triangle Miharu After
Fuku-chan
Fukuyama Theatre: Summer Sec.
Full Metal Panic
Full Moon
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fumoon
Funny Pets
Fuse: Memoirs of a Hunter Girl
Fushigi Yugi t/ Mysterious Play
Future Boy Conan
Future Cop Urashiman
Future Diary
Future War 198X
F-ZERO Falcon Legend
G-9
GA: Art Design Class
Gad Guard
Gag Manga Days
Gaiking
Gakuen Heaven
Galactic Pirates
Galaxy Adventures of Space Oz
Galaxy Angel
Galaxy Express 999
Galaxy Fraulein Yuna
Galaxy Search 2100
Galerians: Rion
Gall Force
Gallery Fake
Galvion
Gamba and his 7 Friends
Gambarugar
Gamba's Adventure
Gambler Legend Tetsuya
Game Center Arashi
Ganbalist
Gandhara
Gantz
Gaogaigar
Garaga
Garden of Sinners
Garden of Words, The
Gardles, The
Gardurin
Ga-Rei Zero
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
Gargoyle of Yoshinaga Family
Gasaraki
Gatchaman Crowds
Gatekeepers
Gazula: The Amicable Monster
GDGD Fairies
Gear Fighter Dendo
Geisters
Gemini Prophecies
Genediver
Generator Gawl
Geneshaft
Genesis Survivor Gaiarth
Genius Idiot Bakabon
Genius Party
Genius? Dr. Hamax
Genji
Genmukan: Sin of Desire…
Genocyber
Genshiken
Gentleman Mugen
Geobreeders
Gestalt
Get a Grip, Tsuyoshi
Get Backers
Get me pregnant, Seiryu!
Get Ride! Amdriver
Getter Robo
Ghiblies
Ghost Hound
Ghost Hunt
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost Slayers Ayashi
Ghost Stories
Ghost Sweeper Mikami
Ghost Talker's Daydream
Ghosts
Giant Gorg
Giant Killing
Giant Robo
Gift: Eternal Rainbow
Gigantic Formula
Gigantor
Gigi and the Fountain o/Youth
Gigolo
Gilgamesh
Ginban Kaleidoscope
Ginguiser
Ginnagashi
Gintama
Girl Detectives' Club
Girl from Phantasia
Girl in a Box: Virgin Territory
Girl Made to Come by Lustful Otaku
Girl Next Door
Girl Summer
Girl Weapon Soul Eater
Girl Who Leapt Through Space, The
Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The
Girl with the White Flag
Girlfriend in a Swimsuit
Girlfriends in Glasses
Girls Bravo
Girls Fight
Girl's High
Girls in Sailor Suits
Girls in Summer Dresses
Girl's Locker Room Lust
Girls und Panzer
GJ Club
Glass Fleet
Glass Maiden
Glass Rabbit
Glassy Ocean
Glick's Adventure
Gloria: Forbidden Relations
Glorious Angels
Glorious Subsection Chief
Glorious Tales of Old Edo
Glory to the Ancestors
Go For It, Genki
Go For It, Goemon
Go For It, Kombe
Go For It, Tabuchi
Go Goshoben
Goal Field Hunter
God Family
God Sigma
Godaikin
Godannar
Goddam
Goddess Karin
Godmars
Going Steady With a Witch
Goku Midnight Eye
Gokudo - Swordman Extrardnr
Gokusen
Gold Lightan
Gold Mosaic
Golden Bat
Golden Boy
Golden Laws, The
Goldfish Warning
Golgo 13
G-on Riders
Gon the First Man
Gon the Fox
Good Evening My Only Darling
Good Luck, Ninomiya-kun
Good Morning Althea
Good Morning Call
Good Witch of the West, The
Goodbye Little Hippo
Goodfella
Gopper 5 Go Damn (!?_
Gorillaman
Gorsch the Cellist
Goshogun
Gosick
Gottaman
Govt Crime Investigation Agent Z. Jotaro
Graduation
Grandar
Grandeek
Grandizer
Grandoll
Grandzote
Grappler Baki
Grasshoppa
Grave of the Fireflies
Gravion
Gravitation
Great Composers
Great Conquest: Rm.o/t3 Ks
Great People
Greed
Greek Mythology
Green Green
Green Legend Ran
Green Makibao
Gregory Horror Show, The
Grenadier
Grey: Digital Target
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Groizer X
Grope
Grrl Power
G-Spot Express
G-Taste
GTO
Guardian Hearts
Gude Crest
Gu-gu Gummo
Guilty Crown
Guin Saga
Gulkeeva
Gulliver's Space Travels
Gun Buster
Gun Frontier
Gun X Sword
Gundam
Gundress
Gungrave
Gunparade March
Gunslinger Girl
Gunsmith Cats
Gurren Lagann
Guruguru
Gutsy Frog, The
Guy
Guy Slugger
Guyver
Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack
Gyrozetter
H together
H2
H2O ~FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND~
Haibane Renmei
Hairy Tale
Haitai Nanafa
Haiyoru Nyaruani
Hakkenden, The
Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East
Hakuoki
Hal and Bons
Halo Legends
Hal's Flute
Hamtaro Tales
Hamtaro the Hamster (mov)
Hanaichi Monme
Hanamaru Kindergarten
Hanappe Bazooka
Hanasaku Iroha: Blossoming…
Hanaukyo Maid Team
Hand Maid May
Handle With Care
Handsome Detective Labr.
Handsome Detective Labyrinth
Handsome Girlfriend
Hanoka
Happiness!
Happy Ermine, The
Happy Friends
Happy Happy Clover
Happy Humping Boing! Boing!
Happy Kappy
Happy Lesson
Happy Prince, The
Happy Seven
Happy World
Harbor Lights
Hard & Loose
Hardcore Hospital
Hare + Guu
Hareluya II Boy
Haretokidoki Buta
Harley Spiny
Harmagedon
Harris's Wind
Haruka
Haruka Nogizaka's Secret
Harumi's Bad Play
Haruwo
Harvest Night, The
Hatarakids My Ham Gumi
Hatarakiman
Hatsuinu
Hatsukoi Limited
Hatsune Miku Live Party
Hattori the Ninja
Haunted Junction
Haunted Sluts
Hawaiian Breeze
Hayate the Combat Butler
Hazedon
He is My Master
Heart Cocktail
Heart Mark
Heart of the Red Bird
Heart: An Italian Schoolboy's Jrnl
Heartbroken Angels
Heart-Colored Killer Ticket
Heartful Café
Heartwork
Heatguy-J
Heaven's Lost Property
Heaven's Memo Pad
Heavy
Heavy Metal L-Gaim
Heidi
Helen Keller
Hell Girl
Hell Target
Hell Teacher Nube
Hello Kitty
Hello Sandybell
Hello Spank
Hells
Hellsing
Helter Skelter: Hakudaku no Mura
Henneko
Hentai Express
Her and Her and Her
Her Need for Embrace
Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple
Here Comes Hanako
Here Comes the Mouse Bride
Here is Greenwood
Heritage From Father
Hermes
Hermit Village
Hero Tales
Heroic Age
Heroic Legend of Arslan
Heroman
Hetalia
Hey Bumboo
HHH Triple H
Hidamari Sketch
Higepiyo the Bearded Chick
High School D x D
High Score
High Speed Jecy
High Step Jun
Highlander: Search for Vgnc
Highschool Agent
Highschool Honour
Highschool Kimengumi
Highschool of the Dead
Hiiro no Kakera
Hika Ryojoku: Lust of Shame
Hikarian
Hikaru's Go
Himawari
Hime-chan's Ribbon
Hininden
Hippo & Thomas
Hippo-Keeper: A Zoo Diary
His & Her Circumstances
Hit & Run
Hitohira
Hitoriga: The Animation
Hiyokoi
Holey Pants: Desire on a Stroll
Holmes the Tortoiseshell Cat
Holy Knight
Holy the Ghost
Holy Virgins
Homeroom Affairs
Honey and Clover
Honey

Promotional Information

Promotion will include pre-releasing PDF pages targeting Anime websites, magazines, reviewers, bloggers and microbloggers, as well as book editors at the alternative weekly newspapers in major markets.
Extensive social media campaign will promote book on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.
A microsite will provide information and live links to explore more about the book.
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's travels, including participation at select Comic-Cons throughout the US.
Publication of this book is a major publishing event and should be of interest to anyone with an interest in and a library of Anime titles.

Promotion on the authors' websites. Jonathan Clements blogs at www.schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com. Helen McCarthy blogs at helenmccarthy.wordpress.com and is also active on Twitter as @tweetheart4711.

About the Author

Jonathan Clements has worked as a translator, voice actor or dubbing director on over 70 anime, including Grey: Digital Target, Sol Bianca and Musashi: Dream of the Last Samurai. He was formerly the editor of Manga Max magazine, a contributing editor of Newtype USA, and is now a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, with special responsibility for China and Japan. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, and his latest solo book is Anime: A History (British Film Institute, 2013).

Helen McCarthy was the founding editor of Anime UK magazine, editor of Manga Mania magazine, and the author of Anime! A Beginner’s Guide, the first book in the English language on the medium. She has appeared in several anime as a voice actress and produced the UK release of Beast Warriors. Her books include Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation, 500 Essential Anime You Must Own, Manga Cross-Stitch and The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, which won the Harvey Award. She has just completed A Brief History of Manga for Ilex Press.

Reviews

10 out of 10 "An even mightier tome than ever before, retaining its status as an absolutely required reference work on a subject too often discussed solely in guesswork and rumor."—MYM

"Invaluable to English-speaking scholars, fans and writers, serving as reliably exhaustive and often highly entertaining guides to a world that can seem as massive as it does impenetrable."—The Japan Times

"Full of interesting behind-the-scenes information on anime ranging from the famous to the forgotten; and the essays give an insightful look at anime history and culture."—Kotaku

"Your new go-to source for Anime information"—OtakuUSA

"Undeniably the definitive English language text about anime."—Crunchyroll

"The third edition of the Anime Encyclopedia is the best yet, and remains the definitive book on Japanese animation in English. Highly Recommended."—Animation For Adults

"Anyone interested in animation should have a copy of “The Anime Encyclopedia” to refer to regularly."—Indiewire

"A useful resource for parents and librarians."—Booklist

"Packed with information on every major topic and series under the sun, and filled to the brim with personality that encourages you to explore its pages and learn while you're being entertained as a result."—UK Anime Network

"Definitely something any pop culture and Japanese anime fan should have at their fingertips."—Forces of Geek

10 out of 10 "An even mightier tome than ever before, retaining its status as an absolutely required reference work on a subject too often discussed solely in guesswork and rumor."—MYM

"Invaluable to English-speaking scholars, fans and writers, serving as reliably exhaustive and often highly entertaining guides to a world that can seem as massive as it does impenetrable."—The Japan Times

"Full of interesting behind-the-scenes information on anime ranging from the famous to the forgotten; and the essays give an insightful look at anime history and culture."—Kotaku

"Your new go-to source for Anime information"—OtakuUSA

"Undeniably the definitive English language text about anime."—Crunchyroll

"The third edition of the Anime Encyclopedia is the best yet, and remains the definitive book on Japanese animation in English. Highly Recommended."—Animation For Adults

"Anyone interested in animation should have a copy of “The Anime Encyclopedia” to refer to regularly."—Indiewire

"A useful resource for parents and librarians."—Booklist

"Packed with information on every major topic and series under the sun, and filled to the brim with personality that encourages you to explore its pages and learn while you're being entertained as a result."—UK Anime Network

"Definitely something any pop culture and Japanese anime fan should have at their fingertips."—Forces of Geek

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