Anime Central hosted the 2014 US Finals for the World Cosplay Summit. John F. Barber commends the book as a "timely and fascinating information to the world of anime". Its acknowledged aims were to make the then arcane and unknown world of Japanese animation accessible to non-Japanese speakers, and to promote a constructive and open image for a medium that acquired some damaging press throughout its early years in the U.Ok. Within the 1970s, Japanese Animation reached Western Europe primarily w...