over 3,000 entries, including separate listings for studios, creators, and anime history

150+ screen captures and illustrations

runs the anime gamut from little-known gems to legendary classics

parental advisories

titles in English and Japanese

fully indexed and cross-referenced

for both anime newcomers and battle-hardened otaku

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The world’s most comprehensive book on anime just got bigger and better! This completely revised, expanded, and updated guide includes over 1,000 new entries on anime titles, studios, creators, and history, and hundreds of all-new critical reviews. Covering almost a century of industry history with authority and wit, Clements and McCarthy reveal both the milestones and the minutiae of the expansive and influential art of anime.

Jonathan Clements is the former editor of Manga Max magazine and the translator of dozens of anime, including Samurai Gold, Slow Step, and Plastic Little. Helen McCarthy is the former editor of Anime UK and Manga Mania magazines and the author of several books, including The Anime Movie Guide and Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation. Both authors are winners of the Japan Festival Award for outstanding contributions to the understanding of Japanese culture.

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Praise for The Anime Encyclopedia, First Edition

“Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive—The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work.”
Neil Gaiman, English script of Princess Mononoke, Sandman, American Gods

“A huge, exhaustive, timely, and authoritative compendium of information that will be appreciated by anime experts and neophytes alike. Recommended for all libraries and essential for film and media collections.”
Library Journal

“Landmark reference works are few and far between in the media field, but [The Anime Encyclopedia] definitely belongs on that short list.”
Video Librarian

“In terms of the most endemic of Japanese film genres, the anime film, there’s absolutely no way anyone’s going to top The Anime Encyclopedia.”
Midnight Eye