Do not be fooled by the nonsensical-looking title or by the sugary
sweet image of a sailor suit-clad schoolgirl wearing a moo cow headdress and
a...mechanized udder. Johnathan Clements' Schoolgirl Milky Crisis (2009)
is actually serious business.
Well, as serious as a 400-page collection of writings on the multi-million
dollar businesses of Japanese animation, manga, and giant monster flicks can
be.
From the pastel-colored front
cover to the pastel-colored back cover, Clements fills the pages of Schoolgirl
Milky Crisis with informative glimpses into the overlapping realms of
Asian popular entertainment that most fans from the West will only get to dream
about.
From the pampered life of an anime voice actress to the anime
industry-crushing ambitions of a film studio owner from China––to the
surprising censorship-related reasons why "tentacles" became so
prevalent in anime erotica and several thought-provoking conversations with
some of today's best-known makers of animation in Japan, Clements covers three
continent's worth of fascinating territory.
The writing is well informed, engaging and immensely educational.
But that should probably be expected from the very same author that gave fandom
the Anime Encyclopedia, right? Highly recommended.
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