- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books (Feb 24 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1848560834
- ISBN-13: 978-1848560833
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,155,257 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Jonathan Clements is one of the rare commentators who writes for the English speaking anime enthusiast without resorting to supposition. .. Clements' work stands as an effective testament to the value of print commentary in anime. Personally, I couldn't be more pleased to have more of this work captured in a shelf-suitable bound edition."
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"Mixing reviews, cultural commentary, insights into classic manga and anime titles, interviews and profiles of Japan's top creators, and hilarious insider stories from the anime trade, Clements is your guide to this fascinating and often very strange world... If you’re serious about your anime and manga then this, like the Anime Encyclopedia, is a necessary purchase as it succeeds in that difficult task of being both informative and funny."
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"Mixing reviews, cultural commentary, insights into classic manga and anime titles, interviews and profiles of Japan's top creators, and hilarious insider stories from the anime trade, Clements is your guide to this fascinating and often very strange world... If you’re serious about your anime and manga then this, like the Anime Encyclopedia, is a necessary purchase as it succeeds in that difficult task of being both informative and funny."
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Schoolgirl Milky Crisis (n.) 1. A silly name for a generic anime show, made up to protect the innocent in Jonathan Clements’ long-running insider column about the Japanese comics and cartoons business. (n.) 2. A hugely entertaining collection of nearly two decades of articles, speeches and interviews by Jonathan Clements, manga and anime translator, sometime voice actor, and co-author of the Anime Encyclopedia.
Mixing reviews, cultural commentary, insights into classic manga and anime titles, interviews and profiles of Japan’s top creators, and hilarious insider stories from the anime trade, Clements is your guide to this fascinating and often very strange world, with new illustrations from fan favourite artist Steve Kyte.
Mixing reviews, cultural commentary, insights into classic manga and anime titles, interviews and profiles of Japan’s top creators, and hilarious insider stories from the anime trade, Clements is your guide to this fascinating and often very strange world, with new illustrations from fan favourite artist Steve Kyte.
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The seamy underbelly of the business...tickle it for fun!, Sep 16 2009
By T. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade (Paperback)
Full disclosure: I've been in the manga and anime business for 25 years, and I knew Jonathan when he was a charming young fan being haplessly drunken under the table by his elders.Jonathan has written a wide range of books (all of them worth reading) but here's where he finally gives us the long overdue data dump of his astoundingly wide-ranging experiences in the Asian entertainment business. Some of these stories I'd heard before, some I hadn't (and, alas, some of his best will probably never be published) but Jonathan writes with a wry wit that is uniquely his own and while I rarely laugh out loud at books, this one had me chucking more than once. Sometimes in amusement, sometimes in sympathetic pain. Yet some of the writing, such as his account of a day in the life of a voice actress, truly captures the bittersweet life these "stars" lead. Jon's writing is nothing if not versatile.
If you are a manga or anime fan with even the faintest interest in what goes on behind the curtain, you must buy this book. Just don't expect it to be all unicorns and butterflies. If you'd rather believe anime and manga are created in a sterile vacuum, untouched by the wicked ways of the world...this is, as the saying goes, not a book to be tossed aside lightly--it should be hurled with great force.
Jonathan also covers some subject areas that have had very little written about them in English. The sections on Chinese animation and Korean animation and movies come to mind.
I loved the book from cover to cover, and learned a lot. For one thing, I learned that if I ever have the chance to hear Jon give a speech, I'd better take it!
A great read, dead-accurate as far as I can confirm it, and worth every penny. I've ordered five more copies to give away to some of my friends and relatives who ask me "Yeah, but what is your job really like?" Hopefully, after they read this book they will buy me whiskey.
(P.S. I'm reliably informed "Schoolgirl Milky Crisis" will soon be in production. Rumor has it Miyazaki will produce. Or at least his son. Or someone called Miyazaki, anyway.)
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Entertaining collection of essays, Dec 23 2009
By Bruce Carlson - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade (Paperback)
This is a collection of past articles, reviews and essays from 2000-2008 by Jonathan Clements, originally written for some US or UK anime and scifi magazines, or DVD jackets. It also includes the transcripts of a couple of the author's lectures (one of which, a talk on computer animation, can be viewed as an extra on the DVD for the animated "A.Li.Ce"). As a collection, the subjects are quite diverse, centering on Japanese animation but including some Japanese live-action and even some Korean and Chinese subjects. Mr. Clements has observed the Japanese animation business from the perspective of Japanese, UK, and US companies. The book's weakest point is his reluctance to name real names, sticking mostly to witty pseudonyms for the names of movies, TV shows, people and companies he tells tales about (I guess he hopes to keep working for them!) Mr. Clements writes in a very entertaining style.Strictly for fans of Japanese animation who are curious about how business decisions are made and how the properties are translated to the English-speaking markets. For those interested, it's an enjoyable read.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Somedays, you just can't get rid of good anime!, Mar 3 2009
By Tim Lasiuta "Comic Fan 42" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade (Paperback)
Schoolgirl Milky Crisis is an entertaining book. Not only does he wax on about his fictional Manga series, but he lets us 'outsiders' in on the 'inside'.That itself is worth the price of admission at $15us.
While inside the magical, maniacal mega walls of Manga...we learn that all is not what it seems. The index is not unlike a wall that reads "Rubber chickens this way", and after you go that way, you find yourself at a restaurant that serves Liptons Chicken Noodle soup. The chapters include a wide variety of comments, interviews, reviews, and humor. We can't forget the humor and the great art by Steve Kyte.
Yeah, there really is no one paragraph review that can succinctly summarize the sense and nonsense of Schoolgirl Mily Crisis. What we can say, is that a life spent in anime and manga, both on the page and behind the microphone, can truly be capsulized in a 416 page book.
Tim Lasiuta
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