# Anime Explosion!

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{{Short description|Book of essays about anime}}
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{{Infobox book
| name          = Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! Of Japanese Animation
| image         = Anime Explosion.JPG
| caption = Cover of ''Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! Of Japanese Animation'' by Patrick Drazen.
| author        = Patrick Drazen
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = 
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| subject       = [Anime](/source/Anime)
| genre         = Non-fiction
| publisher     = [Stone Bridge Press](/source/Stone_Bridge_Press)
| pub_date      = January 1, 2002
| media_type    = Print ([Paperback](/source/Paperback))
| pages         = 369 pp ''(first edition)''
| isbn          = 978-1-880656-72-3
| oclc          = 
}}
'''''Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! Of Japanese Animation''''' is a book of essays about [anime](/source/anime) written by Patrick Drazen. It was published on January 1, 2002, by [Stone Bridge Press](/source/Stone_Bridge_Press).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002AWEWF0/|title=Anime Explosion! The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation (Paperback)|publisher=[Amazon.com](/source/Amazon.com)|accessdate=2009-06-05}}</ref> The first half of the book defines "what [anime](/source/anime) is, what it is not, and more important, how it differs from American cartoons in general and TV-based American entertainment in particular". The second half looks into "individual films and directors".<ref name="ANN review">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/anime-explosion|title=Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! Of Japanese Animation Patrick Drazen; Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press|last=Koulikov|first=Mikhail |date=August 23, 2003|website=[Anime News Network](/source/Anime_News_Network)|accessdate=2009-06-05| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090513013041/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/anime-explosion| archivedate= 13 May 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> The book is used as a text in the "History and Art of Animation" course at [Clarkson University](/source/Clarkson_University),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.clarkson.edu/~fbailey/lf390/index.html|title=LF 390: The History and Art of Animation Fall 2003|publisher=[Clarkson University](/source/Clarkson_University)|accessdate=2009-06-05}}</ref> in the "Japanese Animation: Still Pictures, Moving Minds" course at [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.mit.edu/sp.270/www/sp.270-syb-2004.pdf|title=SP.270 Japanese Animation: Still Pictures, Moving Minds|publisher=[Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology)|accessdate=2009-06-05}}</ref> and in the "Animation: History and Criticism" course at [Emory University](/source/Emory_University).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmstudies.emory.edu/ATLAS/spring06.html |title=Film 373: Animation: History and Criticism |publisher=[Emory University](/source/Emory_University) |accessdate=2009-06-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608232231/http://filmstudies.emory.edu/ATLAS/spring06.html |archivedate=2010-06-08 }}</ref>

==Reviews==
''[Anime News Network](/source/Anime_News_Network)''{{'}}s Mikhail Koulikov commends the book for being "packed with information" and having "valid points, and intelligent opinions". However, he criticizes the book for its "little overall cohesiveness; more a collection of articles in book form than a book".<ref name="ANN review"/> John F. Barber commends the book as a "timely and fascinating guide to the world of anime".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lea.mit.edu/reviews/nov2004/anime_barber.html|title=Anime Explosion: The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation|last=Barber|first=John F.|date=November 1, 2004|website=Leonardo Journal|accessdate=2009-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184826/http://lea.mit.edu/reviews/nov2004/anime_barber.html|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[Animefringe](/source/Animefringe)''{{'}}s Ridwan Khan criticizes the book for its "glaring omission" of anime history as "70s and 80s [anime] are either overlooked or mentioned in passing". Khan also criticises the book's cover for looking "too busy, too comic book, and too cheap pop". He commends Drazen for creating "a concrete basis in Japanese culture with just a dash of intellectual daring to explain anime in a fashion that makes the book extremely interesting".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.animefringe.com/magazine/02.12/reviews/11/index.php3|title=Anime Explosion! The What, Why, and Wow of Japanese Animation|last=Khan|first=Ridwan |date=December 2002|publisher=Animefringe|accessdate=2009-06-05}}</ref>

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