Many books about anime and its makers have been published abroad in English and other languages, but few are by Japanese critics and scholars. In Japan, it's the reverse, with non-Japanese anime writers excluded from publishers' lists.
Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives, Edited by Masao Yokota and Tze-yue G. Hu, University Press of Mississippi, Academic. Rating: ★★★★
Bridging this gap is "Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives," a collection of articles by academics from Japan and elsewhere in East Asia, as well as by Japanese animators themselves, edited by Masao Yokota, a professor of psychology and animation at Nihon University, and Tze-yue G. Hu, a U.S.-based independent animation scholar.