Philip Brophy is a musician, filmmaker, writer and academic. Carlo Chatrian is a film critic and consultant for several film festivals. Jonathan Clements is the author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in Anime and co-author of The Anime Encyclopedia. Jordi Costa is a film critic and author of many articles on Asian cinema. Luca Della Casa is a selector of anime and Asian films for Bologna's Future Film Festival. Stephane Delorme is Editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinema. Davide Di Giorgio is a film critic and author of a Japanese animation column for the webmagazine Sentieri Selvaggi. Daniele Dottorini is a film critic, lecturer and consultant for several film festivals. Stefano Gariglio works in movie subtitling and is a member of the neo(N)eiga cultural association. Paul Gravett is a critic, lecturer, curator and historian specializing in international comic art. Erwan Higuinen is a journalist and film critic for Liberation, Cahiers du cinema and Les Inrockuptibles. Fabrizio Liberti is film programmer for Italian television channel Rai Uno. Helen McCarthy is the author of The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga and co-author of The Anime Encyclopedia. Fabrizio Modina is a multitalented creative and an internationally renowned collector of toys. Giona A.Nazzaro is a film critic and programmer at the Festival dei Popoli, Florence. Maria Roberta Novielli teaches Japanese cinema at the University Ca' Foscari, Venice. Grazia Paganelli is a film critic and film programmer at the National Museum of Cinema, Turin. Gianni Rondolino is an internationally renowned cinema historian and columnist for La Stampa. Michel Roudevitch is a cartoonist, screenwriter, animator and director who has worked in the animated cinema industry since the Sixties. Mario A. Rumor is editor of MANGA! magazine. Stephen Sarrazin is a film and media art critic, curator and professor. David Surman teaches Computer Game Design at the University of Wales, Newport.

350 of the most important people in manga in alphabetical order, 15 essays and an index.