Art Books from Asia

Here's the list of reviews for art books from Asia relating to anime, manga, movies, video games and individual artists. There are also English translated Japanese books.

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Manga

Video Game Art

Anime

Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki related

Others

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Hi! Love ypour blog. I wanted

Hi!

Love ypour blog. I wanted to ask you if there is a "THE ART OF" book on the TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE, I have been trying to find information on books related to this movie, but it appears that they do not exist. What do you know? Thank you for all your insight on the art books.

Rafael

Hi! I was wondering if

Hi! I was wondering if you'll ever do a review of the Final Fantasy Series Artbooks? I especially love FFVII. =) Also the new Naruto artbook, i think it's coming out this week. :)
keep up the good work sir!

Regards,
Francesca

Do you know any other BG

Do you know any other BG design books that you can recommend?
I am a BG designer and I've got some BG books from Japan, but I was wondering if you know of any books just on Background Designs.

Thank you

I was just looking at this

I was just looking at this list, then realised you didn't have any of Shunya Yamashita's books! Sweet Dreams is pretty hard to find, but I saw copies of Wild Flower at Taka's Kino.

Gotta love Japanese artbooks, just a pity that I don't really understand much so I can't really get more out of them. Thanks for the tip about ordering from Amazon.jp, it's really cheaper when there are a couple of books in the orders. :)

That's a shame, although

That's a shame, although truth be told I'm not all that surprised. Elemental Gearbolt was a Guncon game for the PS1 made by a company called Alfa Systems. It has animated cutscenes directed by Rin Taro (Metropolis) and a really cool atmosphere/plot.

Hitoshi Yoneda did the character designs for the game as well as for a game called 'Silent Bomber' (Also PS1). He's got a very unique style (examples of his artwork can be found here http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/book-covers/by-artist/hitoshi-yoneda) and I have been trying to see if he has any sort of artbooks or anything, but no luck yet.

Figured I'd ask because you've got a lot of cool/obscure stuff, but ah well. Thanks for replying, sir.

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