Reception
Mania.com criticized the paperback packaging as being "flimsy" and felt it overrated strange manga and was impatient with longer series, but that it compensated for these shortcomings by its "sheer usefulness". The Library Journal noted that there are only "a few minor instances of incomplete information" in the volume, and found it "highly useful for reference, readers' advisory, and collection development" of libraries.
Anime News Network described it as "highly addicting" and said it provided something for readers at all levels of knowledge of manga. While Comic Book Bin described it as an indispensable reference for writing about manga, Ain't It Cool News noted that it had "less personality" than Helen McCarthy and Jonathan Clements' The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917. Manga: The Complete Guide was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2008, under the category "Best Comics-Related Book", but lost to Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean.
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“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
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