A review by dereksilva
Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater by Frederik L. Schodt, Eric P. Nash

informative slow-paced

3.5

I didn't know anything about kamishibai going into this book, so it was highly educational for me. This book is worth the read based on the images alone. It's very interesting to see kamishibai images and stories from as far back as the 1930s. However, the author's writing was not great. The same sentences seemed repeated in multiple places, the order of explanations was weird, and the overall layout was off. For example, sometimes a page would end in the middle of sentence and the next five pages would be a series of full-page images showing a kamishibai story that was mentioned a bit earlier or would be mentioned a bit later.