Ehehe. I love reading this stuff so all those links up there are totally going into the bookmarks.
Searching on Amazon might get some some good "pop-sci" style books to pull from. At the very least, those books might be able to link you to their information sources which might be more academic in feel.
Anime Encyclopedia is the one I was thinking of at first.
I found a few more on there as well that you might see if you can get ahold of.
one
two
three - this one looks particularly good
four - for the manga view