TalkTuesday 7 April 2015
6:00pm – 7:00pm
The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation
Drinks reception from 7:00pm
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
This third edition of The Anime Encyclopedia brings the landmark reference work up to date with six additional years of information on Japanese animation, its practitioners and products, as well as incisive thematic entries on anime history and culture.
With over 1,000 new entries and over 4,000 updates and corrections, The Anime Encyclopedia is a major resource on film art and culture in Japan, from little-known classics to Pokémon and Sailor Moon.
Helen McCarthy originally had no background in Japanese language or culture but went on to become founding editor of Anime UK magazine. The Anime Encyclopedia is the book McCarthy wanted when she first became interested in anime: twenty years later she saw it in print, after co-authoring it with Jonathan Clements. During the talk, she summarised the book’s genesis, its main aims, and share some of the stories it has accumulated along the way to its third shelf-shattering edition of over a million words.
About the contributors
Helen McCarthy
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. McCarthy wrote the first book in English devoted to Japanese animation and co-authored the first history of erotic anime in a European language. With a dozen books published in six languages, including Japanese, she is widely recognised as an authority on anime and manga. 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.