{"product_id":"leiji-matsumoto-helen-mccarthy-9781476679969","title":"Leiji Matsumoto: Essays on the Manga and Anime Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003e Leiji Matsumoto is one of Japan's most influential myth creators. Yet the huge scope of his work, spanning past, present and future in a constantly connecting multiverse, is largely unknown outside Japan. Matsumoto was the major creative force on \u003ci\u003eStar Blazers\u003c\/i\u003e, America's gateway drug for TV anime, and created \u003ci\u003eCaptain Harlock\u003c\/i\u003e, a TV phenomenon in Europe. As well as space operas, he made manga on musicians from Bowie to Tchaikovsky, wrote the manga version of American cowboy show \u003ci\u003eLaramie\u003c\/i\u003e, and created dozens of girls' comics. He is a respected manga scholar, an expert on Japanese swords, a frustrated engineer and pilot who still wants to be a spaceman in his eighties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This collection of new essays--the first book on Matsumoto in English--covers his seven decades of comic creation, drawing on contemporary scholarship, artistic practice and fan studies to map Matsumoto's vast universe. The contributors--artists, creators, translators and scholars--mirror the range of his work and experience. From the bildungsroman to the importance of textual analysis for costume and performance, from early days in poverty to honors around the world, this volume offers previously unexplored biographical and bibliographic detail from a life story as thrilling as anything he created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476679967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476679969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.50h x 5.10w x 0.50d","brand":"Helen McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990813901055,"sku":"9781476679969","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_742dfb4c-e396-48aa-a237-036b03cf2ec0.jpg?v=1683306840","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leiji-matsumoto-helen-mccarthy-9781476679969","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}