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Special section: Anime and manga-related entries published in scholarly/academic subject-specific encyclopedias

The scholarly encyclopedia, with content consisting of relatively brief articles on specific topics related to a given common theme, issue or area of study, is a particular type of academic resource that is simultaneously intuitively familiar to users who already have experience with general-purpose encyclopedias, and somewhat obscure because of poor coverage in scholarly article databases and subject bibliographies. Since a scholarly encyclopedia article is necessarily an introduction to a topic, its utility may be limited. However, it may very well be the case that a researcher or student is largely unfamiliar with a particular field, and a brief, general introduction is exactly what they are looking for.

Beyond the ever-growing body of academic literature on anime and manga, these two terms, as well as several related concepts, have in fact received a fair amount of coverage in scholarly encyclopedias. The details of such coverage are detailed on this page. Entries for each specific encyclopedia consist of basic bibliographic details for the volume or set, and a listing of the individual articles, along with their page numbers and authors' names.

Because of the limited coverage of resources of this type in the standard academic databases, at this point, the main source for this list is Google Books and Google Scholar coverage. For a project of this type, Google Books' access to tables of contents, and to short sections of actual full-text content within the books it covers is particularly valuable.

Coverage of anime, manga and related topics in English-language scholarly encyclopedias and other reference sources

1. Encyclopedia entries

Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia.
  (2005). Shirley Steinberg, Priya Parmar, & Birgit Richard (Editors). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Lawrence Eng, Otaku, (pp. 188-194)
Michele Knobel & Colin Lankshear, Manga (pp. 194-197)
Lien-Fan Shen, Anime (pp. 197-203)

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture
  (2002). Sandra Buckley (Editor). London: Routledge.

Mark Driscoll, Anime (pp. 17-19)
Sandra Buckley, Manga (pp. 295-298)
Sharalynn Orbaugh & Sandra Buckley, Otaku (pp. 379-380)

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
  (1999). John Clute & John Grant (Editors). New York: St. Martin's Press.

Richard Middleton, Anime, (p. 34)

Encyclopedia of Literature and Science
  (2002). Pamela Gossin (Editor). Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Pamela Gossin, Anime, (pp. 12-13)
Pamela Gossin, Manga, (p. 268)

Encylopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
  (2007). Jeffrey Jensen Arnett (Editor). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Anime
Manga (Japanese comic books)

Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature
&nbps; (2006). Gaetan Brulotte & John Phillips (Editors). New York: Routledge.

Manga
Yaoi

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
  (2002). Karen Christensen & David Levinson (Editors). Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing

Anime
Manga

2. Encyclopedia articles

Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading
  (2008). Kenneth Womack (Editor). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Gilles Poitras, Manga and anime (pp. 600-612)

Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
  (2003). Robert Francoeur & Raymond Noonan (Editors). New York: Continuum.

Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog, Sex, Love, and Women in Japanese Comics (pp. 663-671)

Girl Culture: An Enyclopedia
  (2007). Claudia Mitchell & Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (Editors). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Manga and anime fan culture
Miyazaki's anime girls

3. Articles in other reference sources

Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture
  (2009). Yoshio Sugimoto (Editor). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Craig Norris, Manga, anime and visual art culture (pp. 236-260)
Ross Mouer & Craig Norris, Exporting Japan's culture: From management style to manga, (pp. 352-368)

Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
  (2009). Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, Adam Roberts & Sherryl Vint (Editors). New York: Routledge.

Sharalynn Orbaugh, Manga and anime (pp. 112-122)

Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy
  (2009). Robin Anne Reid (Editor). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Eden Lee Lackner, Anime and manga (pp. 123-134)