Weiss Kreuz Art Book Reviews Bane's

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Reviews - Weiss Kreuz - Assassin and White Shaman - Mook - Art Books - Manga

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Bane's Harem used to host the largest gallery online for WK but alas
it bit the dust when my main site back in June 2002 bit the dust...
As of yet I have no plans on resurrecting the gallery.

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Weiss - Assassins and White Shaman
(Weiss Kreuz)
Artist: Kyoko Tsuchiya
ISBN: 4-403-66020-7

Attributes: Fly-leaf - Manga - Soft Back

REVIEW: I don't know if this is an Art Book or just a really fancy Manga Graphic novel. But, this book is a joy in it's self. The full page illustrations are just wonderful, All Manga, there is no Anima illustrations in this book, so no Yoji with blond hair *cheers*. even thought there are not many Colour images they are lovely... But almost all of it is given to the manga.

MANGA REVIEW: This is not a special, but what happened to Aya and how he joined Weiss. This shows were Ran (before he took Aya's name) and Aya-chan go to their parents workplace and are court in the blast that kills their parents and squish Aya-chan under a lump of concrete while Ran receives nothing but a scratch... This manga is a little confusing if you do not have the 2nd book... There are lots of great images of all the chara in this book. Translations are easy enough to find online.

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Weiss 2 - Assassins and White Shaman
(Weiss Kreuz)
Artist: Kyoko Tsuchiiya
ISBN: 4-403-66021-5

Attributes: Fly Leaf - 2 Posters both 3 A4 in length, 1 of the four Wiess boys in Black and white, the other of all the main male cast.

REVIEW: If you can only buy one book, then buy THIS ONE. in my opinion it is the better of the 2, better illustrations, the manga is the nicer chapter of the two, and I am talking from a Shonen-ai fan POV. I'm always a sucker for chara sketches and this book has lots of all the main chara... Again all illustrations are from the manga and not the Anima.

MANGA REVIEW: This is the better manga of the 2 in my opinion, Starts with Aya dreaming about his sister and he's reaching out for her, then Shu-Shu appears in his dream and holds him from behind while he is crying. Then he wakes up in Yoji's bed *grins* and this is were we find out why they call him Aya and not Ran... It's all very cute. Also more from the Schwartz guys and Farfi makes an appearance

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Weiss Kreuz Film Book
Stories & Characters
Artist: *shrugs, I have no idea*
ISBN: 4-403-67005-9

Attributes: fly-leaf - Postcard inside - 1/3 transparent fly-leaf - Metallic cover.

REVIEW: The only full illustration is the one on the postcard. the rest are lovely thumbnails, but thumbnails non the less >_<. There are hundreds of images in this book from all the anime. Also contains synopsis of all 24 episodes plus lyrics from begging and end theme songs. Four pages dedicated to all the Weiss boys but every other chara has another chara even the Schwartz guys. Chara sketches are basically the same as the ones found in "Wiess2 Assassins and White Shaman" but more of the other chara in the anime. This book is only for those who are obsessed with the Anime, for those that like there artwork then avoid this book, and get one of the Manga books.

*** = Was worth what I spent but if I lost it I wouldn't care - For the Hardened fan only.

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Weiss Kreuz ~Verbrechen & Strafe~
Gakken Mook - Animedia Special
Artist: Tetsuya Yanagisawa & Maki Fuji & Haruo Sotozaki
ISBN 4-05-602260-7

Attributes. It's Huge! Fly leaf

I've been trying to get this for a while but it always seemed elusive... Now I have it and it's bigger than it looks in the scan :P and if your looking for an art book with good illustrations then this is the one!... Most of the first full page images are double spreads. This contains some of the more weird illustrations out there, but I've never seen large scans of them anywhere... The Clips and episode synopsis is not the best, thought it hosts lots of small image they don't flow together very well, it might not help that Ken has blond hair in some of them and I keep thinking it's Omi... buuut there are some nice images still... I don't know if this book is for season 2 of the OVA or if it's a spin off of the series...
The novel is only 7 pages long, some nice B&W illustrations in it, but unless you can read Japanese it's remains a mystery... I don't know who the interview is with, the original creators of the animators (names above)... The merchandise section is only for VHS, DVD's and other CD's and sound tracks.
My only problem with this art book is that the pages arn't glossy, it's all presented in matt, where as sometimes this is a nice tough, this book suffers from it.

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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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