{"id":197,"date":"2010-02-23T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-10-26T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T11:57:29","slug":"really-old-anime-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Really Old Anime \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot about printed sources when writing the previous post.<br \/>\nIf you are interested in anime movies and OVAs from 1983-1995 then &#8220;<strong>The Anime Movie Guide<\/strong>&#8221; by Helen McCarthy (Titan,1996) is just what you need. There&#8217;s also &#8220;500 Essential Anime Movies &#8211; The Ultimate Guide&#8221; by Helen McCarthy [2008] (not seen).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Anime Encyclopedia<\/strong> by Clements &amp; McCarthy is a larger work (pub.2001, 550pp) which claims to cover Japanese animation since 1917.\u00c2\u00a0 Hovever its coverage of prewar anime is slight; of the first 30 titles in the AniDB list, it namechecks six and gives detail on none.\u00c2\u00a0 It does review the famous propoganda movie &#8220;Momotaro&#8217;s Divine Sea Warriors&#8221; (1945) and its 1943 prequel, but almost all other reviews are post-1960.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a later edition (2006, 896pp) (not seen) which reportedly has &#8220;added quite a bit of material on prewar and wartime anime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot about printed sources when writing the previous post. If you are interested in anime movies and OVAs from 1983-1995 then &#8220;The Anime Movie Guide&#8221; by Helen McCarthy (Titan,1996) is just what you need. There&#8217;s also &#8220;500 Essential Anime Movies &#8211; The Ultimate Guide&#8221; by Helen McCarthy [2008] (not seen). The Anime Encyclopedia by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Really Old Anime \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}