All Posts by  nattoli

MOEOH Selection's Ten Colors ~ Juu Nin To Iro ~ finally came out last week, after weeks of hearing and talking about it. And if you're at all familiar with the Dengeki MOEOH magazine, you'll know that means art work from the 10 artists featured each...

During Comiket 77, HUKE the character creator for Black Rock Shooter released a second collection of all BRS art work titled Black Rock Shooter Visual Works 2. It's a doujinshi, so that means it's not very long, but there is some new stuff!

The year of the Ox has ended, but these lovely cow girls wanted to say a final goodbye before the tigers come out and play! These postcards are part of a ten card set that Toranoana sold last year for the New Year. I really wonder if anyone in Japan...

Ashiato ~Kantoku Art Works~ (あしあと~カントクアートワークス~) turns out to be as colorful and vibrant as expected, filled with 144-pages of beautiful girls ranging from original creations to copyright characters. The book is B5 sized, so it's smalle...

絵師100人 100 Masters of Bishojo Painting was released December 16th, 2009 with a retail cost of ￥ 2,499. This 216-page, B5 sized art book is like a directory listing of popular and up-coming artists on the Japanese digital illustration scene. But u...

Dragon Magazine isn't something I regularly purchase, and it's not about to become one. But here's the reason I bought the January 2010 issue of DRAGON Magazine: this adorable Seitokai no Ichizon Nendroid figure of Kurimu Sakurano. It amuses me that...

MOONSTONE is the popular studio that has been creating popular games like Gift, Clear, and Marginal Skip for years. So just recently, they've come out with an art book bringing all these series together in one book called MOONSTONE Complete Illustrat...

The newest collection from E☆2 (Etsu), Girls Girls Girls!4 Illustrations (ガールズガールズガールズ!4), recently came out on 11/26/2006. The pictures inside are collected from volumes of the magazine E☆2 (Etsu) which is a bi-monthly magazine.

After buying the Sheryl Nome Visual Collection (マクロスF VISUAL COLLECTION シェリル・ノーム), I really expected a lot from the Ranka Lee Official Book (RANKA マクロスF ランカ・リーオフィシャルブック). Sadly, Ranka still doesn't manage to compare wit...

I normally don't purchase game books, but the exception is definitely BlazBlue Materials Art Book. I was sad to have missed the pre-order book that came with the game, so I was thrilled to find out they were finally coming out with an official art bo...

At the end of September 2009, Peach-Pit finally released Rozen Maiden Illustrations, a collection of art work presented in hard cover of everyone's favorite dolls, Shinku, Suigintou, and the rest! XD The book retails for ￥ 2,600 and is 88 pages long...

This year is Nitroplus's tenth anniversary and along with releasing a few art books---one of the very sexy girls from Tre Donne Crudeli (続・殺戮のジャンゴ 地獄の賞金首) and one with the Sumaga and Sumaga Special (スマガ&スマガスペシャル) girls. Care...

Atelier Series Official Chronicle covers the art from all the Playstation Atelier games, from Atelier Marie, to Mana Khemia all the way up to Atelier Rorona. It has what you never expect game books to have---tons of art! The book goes in order from o...

If you've watched anime before 2000, you're sure to know Agent Aika, a classic panty shot crazy OVA series. And you've probably also seen Najica Blitz Tactics. But if these are all new to you, then all you're going to think of this art book is "old s...

VALKYRIES is a gorgeous collection of illustrations by Yoshikatsu Mishima that's 26 pages and full color. It was released during Comiket 76, and the circle is Orange Portfolio, not one that I'd previously followed. The theme of this collection is Val...

When I first saw the price of ￥952 for the Macross Frontier Visual Collection Sheryl Nome I hesitated and asked myself, "Can they really make a good art book for such a low price?" Pleased to say, the answer is a resounding "YES!" And that only make...