How This Book Uses Character Images

An anime character is easiest to recognize through the drawing audiences actually know. This edition therefore uses selected official promotional and editorial character images from franchise, studio, publisher, and broadcaster pages. They appear as visual references beside criticism of the characters and archetypes, not as merchandise, branding, or a substitute for the original work.

Those images remain copyrighted by their respective rights holders. Their presence on an official website does not make them public domain, and this project does not describe them as openly licensed. A local copy, a credit line, or an editorial context may document responsible use; none of those things grants permission by itself.

What the image manifest records

For every character image, the project’s image manifest should preserve:

• the character and work represented;
• the official franchise, studio, publisher, or broadcaster source page;
• the rights statement displayed by that source where one is available;
• a plain-language modification note such as “cropped, resized, and converted to WebP”;
• the versioned local filename and descriptive alternative text;
• the date on which the source and attribution were reviewed.

These records are part of the publication, not invisible production notes. They let readers trace an image back to its official context and let maintainers correct or remove it without guesswork. They do not turn attribution into a license.

Attribution is not endorsement

Character names, series titles, designs, animation frames, key art, and promotional illustrations belong to their respective owners. This independent guide is not produced, sponsored, or endorsed by those owners. A copyright line identifies provenance; it should never be styled as a partnership badge or a claim of approval.

The book also avoids making a universal legal claim about its use. Copyright exceptions and publication risk depend on the image, context, amount used, audience, territory, and intended distribution. Anyone publishing the site publicly—especially as a commercial product—should obtain permission or replace these files with licensed press assets cleared for that use.

Delivery does not change rights

The project stores reduced, optimized WebP copies with the static site and delivers them through Cloudflare Pages. This keeps pages fast, avoids treating an official source as an image CDN, and allows versioned assets to use long-lived cache headers. It changes delivery, not ownership.

Cloudflare documents how Pages serves static assets and how optional image transformations can resize or reformat images on an appropriate zone. Neither caching nor transformation supplies a content license, removes an attribution obligation, or implies endorsement.

Corrections and removals

Official pages can move, rights statements can change, and an asset can be unsuitable for a particular publication even when its source is documented. A responsible release should preserve its source records, provide a visible contact path for rights holders, and promptly remove or replace an image when a credible concern cannot be resolved.

This page describes the project’s editorial practice, not legal advice. Republishing the book or its image files requires a fresh rights review for the intended audience, territory, and use.