Miscellaneous 2
Art Book Reviews
Kao Yung - (Unknown)
Fushigi Yugi - (Unknown)
Chronicles of the Heroic Knight - Lodoss War
Samurai Troopers
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Kao Yung - (Unknown) |
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Kao Yung (artist) Attributes: Fly leaf - metallic Gold trim, slightly embossed, mine came with a protective spine add. |
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99 83, all full colour pages, no text 16, 1 chara images, 8 Short Manga, 4 Interview, 3 Image info. All in Japanese, no English Non that I know of Height 30cm - Width 22.5cm , over A4 (this book hardly fits on my scanner) |
REVIEW: I bought this book about 30 mins after the TB one above. All images are either full page or a double spread, a few contain 2 or 4 images a page. All images in this book are printed on exhalent quality paper to the highest degree. Some of the images have Shonen ai suggestions, but the women's eyes are so large they all look stunned. Mostly dealing with a few Chara, with some odd illustrations thrown in. There is only one word that sums up this book... Beautiful...
MANGA REVIEW: Only 8 pages long, with the odd coloured eyes guy talking to a woman about something emotional, strikes me as being a little Vampirick in quality. I would love to own some more of Yung's work, but don't know anything about it.
***** = EXHALENT, Everyone must buy this!
Others Reviews: [NON]
My Gallery for Kao Yung is HERE
This is my scans from this book... So if you want to
see if this book is for you have a look ^_^ and the Scans do no justice to the
reality.
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Fushigi Yugi Attributes: Fly leaf is almost pull out poster, Gold embossing, 2 fold out images. |
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98 74 all illustration 24, 16 chara illustration, 4 interview, 4 illust/book info (all in black white and orange) All in Japanese, maybe one ore two wording in English but that's it. This book has been translated and Printed into English, it's smaller, Reversed, and of poorer quality... Large A4 |
Review: Most images are full page with some double, also a 4
page fold out and 2 double pull outs... Most of the more popular Images here
also some I've not seen, Very nice, if the images are thrown about online a lot
it's still nice to have, the Black and White pages are not that good as far as
chara design goes, but then I cant understand Japanese so it's pretty naff to a
non reader, but the colour bits make up for it...
I have no idea what possessed me to bid for this seen as I'm not a huge fan of
FY... but it is a lovely book!
*** = Was worth what I spent but if I lost it I wouldn't care - For the Hardened fan only.
Others Reviews: [NON]
My Gallery for Fushigi Yugi is HERE
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Illustrations of Reiko Shimizu Attributes; Fly leaf with gold embossing. Reads Left to right |
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104 104 - All pages in colour, including colour momo prints. - - - 24 Coloured mono and duel colour prints Mostly Japanese, v-little English. Not really needed (but knowing more about the manga might help) V-Large A4 |
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This is a sample from the book, seen as the cover doesn't really help. |
I have no idea to the name of the manga that this art book is
mostly featuring. It's got a girl in it who looks like a boy and male chara that
look more feminine than she does. (I found this fact rather ironic, seen as it's
mainly the guys who look like women :P)
All the colour prints are just lush, and almost all of them are full page with a
double sided pull out in the middle, the double mono pages are purple, pink or
blue and are the description and character info on the manga in question and
title pages. At the back it includes images from other manga's by the artist.
Most of the miscellaneous images seem to involve cat's and tigers.
All the artwork is astounding and I have a slight thing for pastel illustrations,
some of the illustrations I'm tempted to take out and frame! I have seen Reiko
Shimizu's work around the internet, and always liked them... This is another one
of those art books you get out and show people to impress them, it's wonderful.
I originally thought this was a Yaoi Artist and book but I was mistaken, there
are a few nice Shonen-ai images but it looks mostly straight stuff that you don't
mind looking at :P
***** = EXHALENT, Everyone must buy this!
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Chronicles of the Heroic Knight Attributes: Fly Leaf, a Collector Card in an envelope bound in at the back. |
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Pages: 95
Colour & B&W: There was an English Content List so I'm using that...
| Pages | Contents | Bane's Description: - Colour |
| 1-3 | Intro | Same old...- Colour |
| 4-5 | Characters | all chara, small screen cap thumbnails. - Colour |
| 6-17 | Film Story 14 | Small thumbnail screen caps, language Japanese - Colour |
| 18-29 | Film Story 15 | Small thumbnail screen caps, language Japanese - Colour |
| 30-39 | Film Story 16 | Small thumbnail screen caps, language Japanese - Colour |
| 40-51 | Film Story 17 | Small thumbnail screen caps, language Japanese - Colour |
| 52-63 | Film Story 18 | Small thumbnail screen caps, language Japanese - Colour |
| 64-65 | Pick Up stories | Small thumbnail screen caps, language Japanese - Colour |
| 66-77 | Film Story 19 | Small thumbnail screen caps, language Japanese - Colour |
| 78-80 | Welcome to Lodoss Island | umm... Chibbis of the cast doing stuff on pink pages? - Colour |
| 81-91 | Art File | Line chara design, also Location drawings. - Black & White |
| 92-94 | Interview | In Japanese - Black & White |
| 95 | On Air List | Umm I have no idea |
Text info: All in Japanese, English on Titles and the
Content listings.
Translation: Nope
Size: A5
Review... Just your normal Film book... ya the ones with small images you strain your eyes to look at, all this book has going for it is that someone might have taken some time over getting the NICE screen caps and I'm always a sucker when it comes to chara design line drawings... all in all this book is your same old, seen one seen um all... The only good thing is the Trading Card in the back...
* = This book killed a few trees... I protest at the waist.
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Samurai Troopers Attributes: Fly Leaf - Page of Postcards - Long foldout poster |
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85 53 -21 charas, 31 Episode synopsis, 1 Postcards 32 - 7 chara design, 4 NG Five Live, 6 Anime development, 6 Manga, 9 Interview? Japanese with some English titling. Nope Small A4 |
Humm... I bought this simply to see what all the fuss was about, and it was cheep-ish :P and I still don't get it, humm but then I'm not a huge fan of anime from the 70's/80's... but I'll try and give you my honest view of this book...
Review: There is no real artwork in this book. the pull out poster is great, and so is the cover, the rest of the images are from the Anime. All the other colour images are large and well presented, some later books could learn something from this book... The Anime plot pages have large really nice images from the anime, no skimping on the screen shots artwork at all... the small manga in the book contains Date Seiji & Shikaisen (the two guys on the back cover)... All of the text and interview are in Japanese but again they haven't skimped on the images that are strooned though the text.
**** = A MUST buy for anyone into this Artist/Manga/Anime
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| My Ratings on these Art books: ***** = EXHALENT, Everyone must buy this! **** = A MUST buy for anyone into this Artist/Manga/Anime *** = Was worth what I spent but if I lost it I wouldn't care - For the Hardened fan only. ** = Any one else want this Art book I think it stinks? * = This book killed a few trees... I protest at the waist. |
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