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Cardboard cover *****  EXHALENT, Everyone must buy this!	X [ze0ro] X Illustrated Collection - CLAMP Attributes; Hardback - Cardboard protective cover - Sexy Blackness :P Amazon.co.jp - Jpqueen.com	Pages: 168 Colour: 152 - Nothing but full colour illustrations! B&W: 16 - Nothing but the Illustration information! Text info: There is NO text! Translation: Non needed Size: A4 Printed: ISBN: 4-04-853168-9
	Review: Review: Finally an X art book I'm glad of owning! This is like the 'TB Photo' book with nothing but cover to cover illustrations! all full glossy colour! It's also one of the thickest Art books I have! The only drawbacks with this book is that it's almost been scanned to death on the internet, but if your looking for the real thing then you NEED to find this and keep it! It should come with a brown cardboard protective cover (I couldn't scan it cause it was to big).  It contains images from 1992 to 1997, so they have a variation on the styles that clamp have changed over the years... Final word, this book is drool worthy and a defiant must!     NEW NEWS:    X Illustrated collection (2) This book is exactly the same as X [Ze0ro]...  The only difference is the cover design and that it's got a soft back instead of a hardback like the one above... oww and that it also looks more like it belongs with the new release of volume 2 (below) Amazon.co.jp - Jpqueen.com

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Tokyo Babylon Photographs Artist: CLAMP ISBN: 4-403-65008-2 Attributes: Full protective see-through thick plastic Fly-leaf. Metallic Silver cover, can be read any way. Amazon.co.jp - Jpqueen.com

REVIEW: This was my first Art book, and I thank that German woman who said I should buy it cos I wasn't allowed to remove it from the wrappings... So I'm saying to you what that nice German woman said to me at Aya-con 98 in Manchester "I have it, it's beautiful you HAVE to buy it!"... 
This book contains all the full illustrations on the manga covers without text, also the smaller image on the inside of the manga. It also has the double pull out images that were in the manga, my only complaint is that they only have the ones with Subaru and Hokuto together, and not the ones when you pull them out and it's Subaru and Sieshirou >_<... It also has illustrations of the older Subaru and Sieshirou with his blinded eye. There are also some gorgeous Subaru and Sishirou images... infact ALL the pages in this book just have you drooling over ever page... One important thing with any book, it still smells NEW even though I've had it for years! it also doesn't matter which way you look at this book, back to front or what ever.. I think it should be viewed in the Western way, to the middle then the Japanese way, again to the middle... But for the love of gods, NEVER try and scan this book cos it WILL brake, all my binding is buggered now and I seriously regret ruining this wonderful book!
Even my mother likes it and she hates manga and especially hates CLAMP, so that says something!

No special manga but then who cares!!! This book IS better than a manga (did I say that out loud?)

***** = EXHALENT, Everyone must buy this!

Others Reviews: [NON]

My Gallery for X is HERE
I don't have a dedicated Tokyo Babylon Gallery, it's mixed in with my X one 
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Wish - Memorial illust collection Artist: CLAMP ISBN: 4-04-853386-x Attributes: HARD BACKED - A treated Paper fly leaf/dust cover -   1/3 fly leaf (not shown) Amazon.co.jp - Jpqueen.com

REVIEW: This book comes if a wonderfully matt fly-leaf, and all the pages are a matt-dull finish, it's a bit like looking through some ones colour sketch book. All illustrations are wonderfully bright and eye catching, scanners and the internet does these images no justice, also this book contains images that I have not seen on the internet before... If you love CLAMP and have had the privilege of reading Wish then this is a MUST buy!

MANGA REVIEW: This is a 16 page special, I cant read it. but if you have read Wish then this is what happened after the Manga finished... Also there is an image were Shuishirou (the reincarnation) grabs Kohaku and kiss's Him/her/it.. So cute.. if anyone could translate this for me let me know ^_^. The only problem with this special manga is that Hisui-sama just looks to darn feminine *cries*

****   = A MUST buy for anyone into this Artist/Manga/Anime

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REVIEW: This is some colour work from the early years of RG Veda and is a little nieve, Contains some of the best RG Veda illustrations though, all in glorious colour. 

Book 2 Comic/Basic Data Art by Mokona Apapa - Story by Nanase Ohkawa Attributes: Soft back, Leather look/feel Double Cover, Metallic Gold trim.

REVIEW: If you are an Ahsura-ou (that's Ashura's Dad) Fan, then this is the book for you. Full A4 page Extra manga, Some basic Chara Design of the main chara and a social family tree. 

MANGA REVIEW: This manga actually appears in Volume 7, as an extra part... Though in this format it's bigger and lovely to look at... It's about Ashura-ou and the prophesy about his son *Ashura*, Also contains some nice seines of Ashura-ou's death and some outstanding images of a full grown Ashura all tangled up in stuff.

REVIEW OVER ALL: This is a must have Art book... It's one of them you get out and show people. I saw this at a con in 1998 and I wanted it but wasn't allowed to open it and was over £50, now you can find it on e-bay a lot cheaper, Try the seller Sirff, a far and good dealer, though anyone bids againced me and I'll be pissed :P... 

***** = EXHALENT, Everyone must buy this!

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X Perfect Book - The Movie Artist: CLAMP Printer: Asuka Comics DX ISBN: 4-04-852716-9 Attributes: Fly-leaf - double fold out poster Amazon.co.jp - Jpqueen.com

REVIEW: This is the 3rd art book I ever bought and boy I wish I had saved my cash, This is full of nothing but the Anime cells. It is nice for those that like the anime. (I don't like the anime movie by the way). *takes a deep breath*... All pages are paper and it's a nice change from glossy images. The colour images are some of the better Cells, also lovely background cells. The black and white images are nice Chara sketches as well as some background sketches with location shots from Japan. No full page illustrations. Again this is the ANIME not the manga, so if you like Clamp's artwork avoid this.
New Info: This book is for the making of the MOVIE and NOT the TV series, ok... AVOID!
PS: The name of this art book has always struck me as ironic, seen as I think it's so shit :P 

*         = This book killed a few trees... I protest at the waist.

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X First Contact - The OVA Original art by - CLAMP Printed by - Asuka (I think) ISBN 4-04-853437-8 Attributes: Fly leaf - Metallic Collectors Card in back of the Cover. Amazon.co.jp - Jpqueen.com

After (X the Perfect Book) I wasn't holding much hope for this book, but what can I say I'm a sad Clamp fan... But despite this being almost half the size and having less pages it's better than the book above. 
It has ALL the chara's from the manga and the OVA, including Kakyou and Hokuto. If your looking for a story brake down like with other books of it's like then you will be disappointed, it has all of 12 pages to it that even I don't understand after watching the first 2 DVD's, of which it basically covers the first 4 episodes.
Even though the illustrations over lap in places, there all large and good quality and don't leave you squinting to much, this book is full of colour but not in an nauseating way. The general Illustrations them selves are nothing to really right home about but they are pretty, And if your a Kotori fan then just forget it ^_^ this book concentrates on all the chara equally.
Though I don't hold much for knowing about voice actors, This book has the best pages I've seen. Pictures of the actors and the chara they voice, with some info in Japanese on them, I like this touch, and if you own the English translated DVD's you can switch to Japanese and hear the voices to the faces, it's amusing ^_^
All in all this book is one of the better ones, There are no original Clamp works in this book, but the artists do such a good job that it doesn't impinge on your viewing pleasure.

****   = A MUST buy for anyone into this Artist/Manga/Anime

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Cluster By - CLAMP / Tamayo Akiyama ISBN 4-915146-27-8 Attributes: umm, nun?

This style art isn't really my thing, preferring the more detailed or simpler artwork of Clamps... But it looks like it could be an interesting read, though I don't know whether there is more or not... The Illustrations are large and in beautiful colour and large...
Though it is under the Clamp name, it's mostly attributed to Tamayo Akiyama who I think quit Clamp ages ago, (Though I could be wrong). But the style is A typical to Clamps more earlier works. 
This is a nice book but nothing really to right home about, The main female chara seems to be hooked up to (Or should I say 'Lumbered with') the black haired guy who I think is some kind of demon... That's about all I know.
Also the chubby work they normally have at the back of their manga's is of a VERY early style.

****   = A MUST buy for anyone into this Artist/Manga/Anime

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The Art of Cardcaptor Sakura 1 / 2 / 3 Art by Clamp Published by Tokyopop 1 Attributes: Unreserved, Double sided pull out, Manga extra 2 Attributes:  3 Attributes: Unreserved		Book 2
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