Academic Books about Anime
1. 
Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga 3.46 avg rating β 50 ratings
2. 
Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society
by:
Sharon Kinsella
3.78 avg rating β 68 ratings 
4. 
Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation
by:
Susan J. Napier
3.72 avg rating β 706 ratings 5. 
A Sociology of Japanese Ladies' Comics: Images of the Life, Loves, and Sexual Fantasies of Adult Japanese Women
by:
Kinko ItoΜ
4.23 avg rating β 13 ratings 
8. 
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime 3.75 avg rating β 152 ratings
9. 
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story
by:
Ian Condry
3.72 avg rating β 149 ratings 10. 
11. 
Anime: from Akira to Princess Mononoke, Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation
by:
Susan J. Napier
3.72 avg rating β 706 ratings 12. 
Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girlβs Culture in Japan
by:
Deborah Shamoon
3.80 avg rating β 50 ratings 13. 
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Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
by:
Steven T. Brown
3.74 avg rating β 81 ratings 
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Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 34 ratings
20. 
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
by:
Scott McCloud
4.34 avg rating β 9,603 ratings 
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From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West
by:
Susan J. Napier
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 53 ratings 24. 
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals: Japanβs Database Animals
by:
Hiroki Azuma
3.79 avg rating β 586 ratings 
29. 
Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games
by:
Dani Cavallaro
3.78 avg rating β 18 ratings 30. 
Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata
by:
Colin Odell
3.77 avg rating β 610 ratings 31. 
The Fairy Tale and Anime Traditional Themes, Images and Symbols at Play on Screen
by:
Dani Cavallaro
3.88 avg rating β 8 ratings 32. 
Mostly Manga: A Genre Guide to Popular Manga, Manhwa, Manhua, and Anime (Genreflecting Advisory Series)
by:
Elizabeth Kalen
4.13 avg rating β 15 ratings 33. 
Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre
by:
Antonia Levi
3.98 avg rating β 54 ratings 34. 
Anime and Memory: Aesthetic, Cultural and Thematic Perspectives
by:
Dani Cavallaro
3.25 avg rating β 12 ratings 35. 
Animeβs Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan
by:
Marc Steinberg
4.20 avg rating β 50 ratings 36. 
Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives 3.29 avg rating β 24 ratings
37. 
Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of PokΓ©mon
by:
Joseph Tobin
3.91 avg rating β 98 ratings 38. 
Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World
by:
Timothy Perper
3.82 avg rating β 11 ratings 
40. 
Anime Explosion! The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation
by:
Patrick Drazen
3.67 avg rating β 179 ratings 40. 
Rewriting History in Manga: Stories for the Nation
by:
Orna Shaughnessy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 40. 
Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan
by:
Stevie Suan
4.11 avg rating β 9 ratings 43. 
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Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to "Sacred Sites" of Popular Culture
by:
Philip A Seaton
3.83 avg rating β 6 ratings 45. 
The Very Soil: An Unauthorized Critical Study of Puella Magi Madoka Magica
by:
Jen A. Blue
4.27 avg rating β 67 ratings 46. 
The Science of Anime: Mecha-Noids and AI-Super-Bots
by:
Lois H. Gresh
3.65 avg rating β 20 ratings 47. 
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture
by:
Takashi Murakami
4.32 avg rating β 146 ratings 48. 
Manga and Philosophy: Fullmetal Metaphysician (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 52)
by:
Josef Steiff
3.47 avg rating β 30 ratings 48. 
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
by:
Matt Alt
4.18 avg rating β 3,063 ratings 50. 
Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan 3.84 avg rating β 45 ratings
50. 
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai 4.01 avg rating β 174 ratings
52. 
The Moe Manifesto: An Insider's Look at the Worlds of Manga, Anime, and Gaming 3.64 avg rating β 355 ratings
54. 
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
by:
Steven T. Brown
3.85 avg rating β 74 ratings 