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Advancing
As if by magic, the First Emperor of China rears his ugly head again only a few days later, with the word from my publishers that he’s finally earned out his advance. This is a cause for great...
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"I have not told the half of what I saw."
Although they may be self-indulgent and self-regarding, I’ve really been enjoying everybody else’s round-ups of the ten years since the numbers rolled over from 19– to 20–. Herewith the last decade as...
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Orange is the New Black
Over 1000 new entries, over 4000 updates and corrections, countless new arguments ended (and begun). The third edition of the Anime Encyclopedia brings the landmark reference work up to date with six...
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The Prologue…
Just a little taste from the introduction to the new edition of the Anime Encyclopedia, due out in December 2014. The passage excerpted outlines some of the changes and new additions to the book that...
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Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd edition
Copies have just arrived at Stone Bridge’s San Francisco offices of the new edition of the Anime Encyclopedia. Helen McCarthy just won the internet by saying: “And of course, it’s even bigger on the...
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Back in the Japan Times
And I’m back in the Japan Times again, this time in a review-interview by Roland Kelts, in which he compares the Anime Encyclopedia to the ravings of an Irish drunk. “The book is almost Joycean — you...
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“Concis et tentaculaire”
Over in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps, Jonas Pulver inadvertently coins the superhero identities Helen McCarthy and I would use if we were fighting crime. I’m Concis, she’s Tentaculaire....
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ANNcast 221
“Helen McCarthy, in a hat, outrunning a giant boulder made of porn.” I finally unlock the achievement of being interviewed on an Anime News Network podcast, about the world of the Anime Encyclopedia,...
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