Schoolgirl Milky Crisis

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"A tour of the medium with the world's best guide."
-- SFX

"Clements is a sharp writer with an ability to keenly frame his subject... pieces like this have the power to affect how you think about anime."
-- Ain't it Cool News

"honest, sometimes blunt, often humorous… If you want to know just a hint of what goes on behind the press releases, where anime comes from and how it gets here, then this is your book… the ultimate source"
-- Eye on Anime

Schoolgirl Milky Crisis (n.) 1. A stupid name for a generic anime show, made up to protect the innocent in Jonathan Clements' long-running insider column about the Japanese comics and cartoons business. (n.) 2. A collection of nearly two decades of articles, speeches and interviews by Jonathan Clements on topics including:

• Secrets of the translating business
• The true life of a struggling voice actress
• The curse of commentaries
• Tools of the foley artist's trade
• Why you should always avoid snowball fights with martial artists
• Espionage and skulduggery in the anime world
• Inadvisable confessions in someone's kitchen
• What drives colorists mad
• The care and feeding of Japanese guests
• The politics of awards

Know Your Anime - An irreverent look at every conceivable angle of the anime and manga trade, from initial silly idea to final disappointing sales.

Manga Snapshots - The bogglingly wide world of Japanese comics - comics for the elderly, comics for office ladies, comics for… golfers.

Living Manga - live-action adaptations of famous and not-so-famous Japanese comics, from Old Boy to the Rose of Versailles.

Manga Goes to Hollywood - Familiar stories in manga form, from Spawn to Interview with the Vampire.

Things We Can Actually Admit To - Interviews and profiles of Japan's top creators: Katsuhiro Otomo, Mamoru Oshii, Masamune Shirow, Keiji Nakazawa and more. Sometimes even obtained with their consent.

Beyond the Manga Trade - Rubber monsters, Korean movies, Chinese cartoons, the trouble with learning English in Japan and other unexpected rants.

Issues in piracy, intellectual property rights, distribution, sales, marketing… all these things will also come up somewhere. But you can skip those parts if you want. There are cartoon pictures and everything.