7.2 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Publication date December 30, 1998 Pages 180 pp (first edition) Originally published 30 December 1998 Genre Encyclopedia | 3.6/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 978-0-8126-9332-4 Subject Manga | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation is a 1998 book written by Antonia Levi. The book was published in North America by Open Court Publishing Company on December 30, 1998.
Reception
Anime News Network's Mikhail Koulikov commends the book for its "accessible introduction to looking at anime from an academic perspective" but criticises it for being "limited in scope, sloppy in execution, and badly dated". Animation World Magazine's Fred Patten commends the book for "breaking new ground" by delivering "the first detailed discussion of the popular-culture sociology of anime." However, he criticises the book for mis-dating, "a couple of minor titles are consistently misspelled" and "the color plates are beautiful but notably pixillated [sic], as though printed from enlarged color faxes or "video screen captures" rather than from clear film transparencies."