Forum - View topicA New Decade of Anime: A History with Author Jonathan Clements
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Juno016
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Mr. Clements, this gal ordered and read your last release so many years ago and it was an absolute pleasure. I would not have known this version exists without this interview, but you can bet it'll be on my shelf and in my hands to read again, both as a refresher and with eager curiosity to see what else you've had to report about the industry this past decade. There really is no other book out there like it. I hope it sells!
I also haven't read your blog in ages. I guess it's time to play ketchup! |
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TarsTarkas
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This is good news. Insurance against most anime becoming watered down and self censored material. Don't know why the western anime community is not 'live and let live' when it comes to anime content. I simply don't watch stuff I don't like. I don't need to rail against the fates, if I don't like the content. Really in today's world, there is so much stuff coming out that it is impossible to watch everything. There is literally something for everyone coming out each quarter of the year. |
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invalidname
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I’m just happy to see that Schoolgirl Milky Crisis is still going strong…
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Shay Guy
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When the second response contains this…
…you know it's going to be a good interview. I don't think I've ever read Anime: A History (though I recognized the name "Schoolgirl Milky Crisis", probably from his online writings), but I might have to buy this new edition. Maybe I'll add Schodt's 45-year-old book Manga! Manga! to the same order; I read it from the library years ago and remember thinking it was great. |
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fathomlessblue
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Oh dear... has it really been 10 years since the first edition? Allow me to quickly crumble into dust.
Well, I enjoyed it then, just as I'm sure I'll enjoy this updated version. Clements is still as funny as he is insightful in these interviews. People should also listen to the ANNcast both he & Helen McCarthy were on, nominally talking about the Anime Encyclopedia. I still occasional smile remembering Zac trying to get control of the show, as the two of them went into tangents within tangents about all sorts of aspects of the industry. Although honestly he could have just wandered off for a few hours & left them to it, & the result would still have been a great podcast.
It is worth noting that the book was original built out of a doctoral thesis, so it's definitely more academic & dry than the jokey tone of his interviews might suggest.It's still a damn good book, but I'd hardly call it a light and breezy read either. |
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NeverConvex
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One day, in the future, you or your cyborg descendant is going to walk into your home after a hard day doing space things and say: “I want to see The Seven Samurai, but I want them all to be badgers working for Nicole Kidman.” And Siri will ask you: “Do you want to press the anime filter?” And you'll say: sure…. And hey presto, that film will start to play out in front of you, and the presence of that anime filter will be a stylistic, thematic device that doesn't involve the Japanese at all. That sounds pretty awful…
One person's awful is another person's amazing, I guess 
Book sounds interesting, though. Picked up a copy -- although, yeesh, seems like it took real inspiration from academic book pricing. |
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Karasutengu253
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Having purchased and read Jonathan Clements' first book on anime, I'm looking forward to this new edition, to add to my collection on anime, when it's published later this month.
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