If you're a fan of anime or manga, take the next step with this comprehensive guide to Japanese TV dramas - or dorama. As dorama's popularity explodes all over the English-speaking world, this guide will help you navigate a half-century of serials on the small screen. With the same witty, informative style as its complementary volume, The Anime Encyclopedia, Clements and Tamamuro take you inside the world of dorama, examining every genre, from rubber-monster shows to the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, from samurai epics to the Geisha Detective, and even the everyday intrigues at home, the schoolyard, and the office. The authors also highlight the strong ties between TV and the worlds of Japanese comics and animation.
Deeply connected to Japanese anime, manga, music, and film is . . . Japanese TV. This encyclopedic survey of the next cultural tsunami to hit America has over one thousand entries—including production data, synopses, and commentaries—on everything from rubber-monster shows to samurai drama, from crime to horror, unlocking an entire culture’s pop history as never before. Over one hundred fifty of these shows have been broadcast on American TV, and more will follow, perhaps even such oddball fare as a Japanese "The Practice" and "Geisha Detective." Indexed, with resources for fans, couch potatoes, and researchers.
Jonathan Clements is contributing editor to Newtype USA Magazine and coauthor of The Anime Encyclopedia.
Motoko Tamamuro is an art historian and contributor to Manga Max.
An entertaining reference to popular Japanese TV shows, from the publisher of The Anime Encyclopedia.
