In 2019, he appeared on Christmas University Challenge as a member of the Leeds team, alongside Henry Gee and Timothy Allen, captained by Richard Coles.Īlthough Clements has written a couple of novels, much of his fiction work is CD audio drama or radio under the auspices of Big Finish Productions, including the Strontium Dog series, starring Simon Pegg, and the Doctor Who spin-off Sympathy for the Devil, starring David Warner and David Tennant. In 2016, he became the presenter of three seasons of Route Awakening ( National Geographic Asia), a series investigating the origins of several key Chinese cultural icons. He has been a consultant and talking head on numerous TV shows, including New Secrets of the Terracotta Warriors ( Channel 4), Koxinga: Sailing into History ( National Geographic), China's Jade Empire (Channel 4), and Chinese Chariot Revealed ( PBS). Shortly after leaving the editorship of Manga Max magazine, he became a presenter on the Sci-Fi Channel's Japan-themed magazine show Saiko Exciting. In 2000, he received the Japan Festival Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Understanding of Japanese Culture, specifically for his work on Manga Max. He served two years at Titan Books in London as the editor of Manga Max magazine, an experience he would later fictionalise as the Judge Dredd adventure Trapped on Titan. He wrote his PhD at the University of Wales on the industrial history of Japanese animation, later published by the British Film Institute as Anime: A History. Subsequently, he translated over 70 anime and manga works for British distributors, and worked as a voice director and actor. He wrote his Master's degree at the University of Stirling on manga and anime exports, predicting the rise of several trends in the international industry including back-to-front printing, direct American investment in anime, and the proliferation of attempts to substitute non-Japanese products. He is also the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas.Ĭlements speaks both Chinese and Japanese, and many of his works relate to East Asia. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Koxinga and Qin Shi Huang, as well as monthly opinion columns for Neo magazine. Jonathan Michael Clements (born 9 July 1971) is a British author and scriptwriter.

Anime by Jonathan Clements