{"product_id":"leiji-matsumoto-9781476679969","title":"Leiji Matsumoto","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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--mirro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eGilles Poitras\t1\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eDarren-Jon Ashmore and Helen McCarthy\t3\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\t5\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eDarren-Jon Ashmore and Helen McCarthy\t7\u003cbr\u003eLeiji Matsumoto: A Life in Context\u003cbr\u003eHelen McCarthy\t13\u003cbr\u003eSailing a Sea of Stars: Growth and Change in Matsumoto's Space Opera\u003cbr\u003eDarren-Jon Ashmore\t29\u003cbr\u003eEven Better Than the Real Thing: Matsumoto's Manga\u003cbr\u003eTim Eldred\t57\u003cbr\u003eThe Cockpit and the Nobility of Failure\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Tarbox\t84\u003cbr\u003eFemale in a Male Universe: Women in Matsumoto's Space Operas\u003cbr\u003eStefanie Thomas\t111\u003cbr\u003eThe Impact of Matsumoto's Universe on Anime Magazines as a Platform for Cosplay\u003cbr\u003eEdmund W. Hoff\t147\u003cbr\u003eA Captain's Tribute to Leiji Matsumoto: A Cosplay Project\u003cbr\u003eOndine Montoya and Matthew Montoya\t164\u003cbr\u003eTranslating Leiji Matsumoto\u003cbr\u003eZack Davisson\t187\u003cbr\u003eInterview with Leiji Matsumoto\u003cbr\u003eDarren-Jon Ashmore\t200\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Bibliography and Weblinks\t211\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A: Matsumoto Animation\t213\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: Matsumoto Comics and Graphic Works\t215\u003cbr\u003eAppendix C: Matsumoto Collaborations and Other Works\t229\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t233\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t235\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040469123415,"sku":"9781476679969","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476679969.jpg?v=1750946854","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leiji-matsumoto-9781476679969","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}