Watching anime, reading manga: 25 years of essays and reviews

Foreword by Carl Macek; Preface; Part I Anime Fandom; America's First Manga Advertisements; Friends Overseas: Fans in America, by Animedia Staff; Remembrance of Cons Past; What's Wrong with Japanese Animation?; Fifteen Years of Japanese Animation Fandom, 1977-92; The Best of Anime CD Liner Notes; Who Knows "Best"?; Anime in the United States; Fred Patten: Anime Man, by Simon Drax; Anime Expo 2003: Anime Conventions Enter Their Adolescence; "Anime" Versus "Japanimation"; Part II The Business of Anime; All Those Japanese Animation Soundtracks; Japanese Anime: The Cult Grows Up.

Anime Licensing Grows UpLetter to the Editor: "Anime" as Pejorative; The Anime "Porn" Market; Go to JAILED; The Thirteen Top Developments in Anime, 1985-99; Anime 2000: Money Talks; Anime Theatrical Features; Academy of Motion Picture Arts Anime Event; July 1978: First Anime Fan Magazine, Animage, Published; Simba Versus Kimba: The Pride of Lions; Simba-Kimba Redux? The Nadia Versus Atlantis Affair; Part III Artists; ; Hypersexual Psychoviolence! The Dynamic World of Go Nagai; Osamu Tezuka (1926-89); Osamu Tezuka: A Memorial to the Master; Shotaro Ishinomori: A Profile.

Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Trip to the U.S. Part IV Japanese Culture in Anime; ; TV Animation in Japan; Mangamania!; Japan + Animation = Japanimation! Part 1; Japan + Animation = Japanimation! Part 2; A New Wind from the East; Full Circle: Japanese Animation From Early Home Studios to Personal Workshops for Home Video; Japan's Anime; A Capsule History of Anime; Anime: Subliminal Lessons in Japanese History; Refighting World War II; Less, or More, Than Human; Part V Titles; ; Dawn of the Warrior Robots: The Beginnings of a New Breed of Action Hero!

Force Five: Previewing an Ambitious New Animated Science-Fiction TV Series!Robotech: Japanimation Invades Comics with a Trio of Comico Titles; Profile: Gigantor, The Space-Age Robot; Speed Racer: Still in the Lead; Momotaro's Gods-Blessed Sea Warriors: Japan's Unknown Wartime Feature; Prince of Something: The Heroic Legend of Arslan

Age of Heroes; Astro Old and Astro New; Pokémon: Ready for Its Next Success; Is Digimon Movie Destined for Success?; Vampire Hunter D: The Next Anime Hit in America?; Blood: The Last Vampire

Anime's First Digital Feature; A Retro-future Metropolis.

A Winning SpiritCowboy Bebop: The Movie ... At Last; The Animatrix: Anime Reloaded; September 1963: Astro Boy Premieres in America; Millennium Actress: The Struggle to Bring Quality Animation to Theaters; Perfect Blue Revisited; January 1917: First Animation Produced in Japan Is Released.