Artbooks
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Name: Angel Cage
Artist: Kaori Yuki
Series: Angel Sanctuary
Version: Chinese, American
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Name: Animation Album Smash
Artist: Takeshi Konomi
Series: Prince of Tennis
Version: Chinese
My Comments: Once I saw this, I really wanted it because I was really into Prince of Tennis at the time. About a third of the images are manga images, but most of them are Anime ones including info about each Seigaku regular and game reports.
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Name: Art of Arts
Artist: Capcom
Series: Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles
Version: Japanese
My Comments: I really love this artbook and am glad I got it. It has CG artwork, illustrations, concept work, and staff interviews, a lot of which I had not seen before.
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Name: Art of Guild Wars
Artist: NCSoft
Series: Guild Wars
Version: English
My Comments: I actually won this artbook at a raffle at a LAN party before I started playing the game. Now that I have played it, I appreciate it even more. It has many beautiful concept illustrations, mainly of areas in the game.
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Name: Biohazard 4 Visual Soundtrack
Artist: Capcom
Series: Resident Evil 4
Version: Japanese
My Comments: This is a great deal because it's a 2 disc soundtrack that also comes with an artbook. The artbook has CG artwork from the game, as well as commentary on each song.
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Name: Cinematic Art
Artist: Blizzard
Series: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Version: English
My Comments: I randomly found this book and decided to get it. It features sketches, progress shots, and some beautiful CG art that were used to make the WotLK movie. It also has a little book at the end about Sindragosa and 2 bonus art pieces.
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Name: Gravitation TV Animation Fan Book
Artist: Maki Murakami
Series: Gravitation
Version: Japanese
My Comments: I wasn't planning on buying this, but I saw someone selling it, so... I bought it! It features Anime versions of the characters, including official artwork, screenshots, and character designs. At the end, it looks like there's a feature on the voice actors.
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Name: Okami: Official Complete Works
Artist: Clover Studios
Series: Okami
Version: English
My Comments: After getting addicted to this game, I just had to get the artbook. It has beautiful artwork and concept works of the characters and enemies.
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Name: Resident Evil Archives
Artist: Capcom
Series: Resident Evil
Version: English
My Comments: This is more like a guide than an artbook. It's insane though. It has anything and everything you'd ever want to know about the first 4 Resident Evil games (0-3, Veronica).
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Name: Sai artbook
Artist: Yumi Hotta, Takeshi Obata
Series: Hikaru no Go
Version: Japanese
My Comments: Wow, this one was expensive. It's large (as in both its size and number of pages) and with gorgeous images in full color. It's called the Sai artbook, but it features illustrations of all the characters. Many of them were either used for manga covers or inserts.
My Comments: I love Kaori Yuki's art and would love more of her artbooks. I actually own both the Chinese and American version of this one. Though it's mostly on Angel Sanctuary, there are also art from Count Cain and Neji.