Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier

Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation



Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation



Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation Susan J. Napier ebook
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Napier presents an in-depth analysis of anime works that are popular in the US. The book seems to try to meet demands from both non-academic anime fans and academics who need information about pop culture of contemporary Japan. Unfortunately, this book does not meet either demands to the level of satisfaction. If you are a hard-core anime fan, you must simply wonder why the golden age of anime, which is from the late 70s to the 80s, are largely ignored. You might also wonder why only the anime titles that are popular in the West are treated in the book. For example, among Miyazaki Hayao's works, the most important (for both fans and creators of anime in Japan) are Lupin, Nausicaa and Laputa: Mononoke Hime's importance is a very recent idea marketed by Disney to American audience. Furthermore, Napier does not care about the important anime titles (in terms of both anime history and Japanese culture) like Gundam and Macross. Her anime collection seems to be limited to US official releases (I guess she doesn't watch fansubs...) If you are an academic who is looking for an overview and some concrete information about Japanese anime, then this book will not help you much. For example, she regards Akira as a representative anime work, but the truth is that Akira is important because it was the first international release. The same can be said about Ghost in the Shell. In short, Napier only discusses anime titles that are visible to American or Western audience and discuss them as if Japan has had the same perception of anime as America. There are many important anime works before Akira. Actually, compared to those, Akira is not so important at all. What if you see a book that tries to explain what American literature is, without mentioning Emerson, Hawthorne and Melville? As a reader who is both an academic and an anime fan, I don't see who this book is trying to target as its legitimate reader. Overall, Napier's discussions in this book are organized and solid as a scholarly work, but her approach and presumed frame of logic should be seriously questioned.

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