Artbooks!

Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:12 pm

Only about half anime/manga related, but who likes them? I've just recently become rather obsessed with them. I've got:
Wish Memorial Illustrations (CLAMP)
Angel Cage & Lost Angel (Kaori Yuki)
Your Eyes Only (CLAMP)
Angel Flavor (Aoi Nanase)
Shin Shunkaden Postcards (CLAMP)
*likes CLAMP a lot*
Does anyone else collect them? Out of all the people I know, only a very few people have even one, let alone a collection...

Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:25 pm

I love artbooks, I just never have enough money to buy any. I have a list of books that I want to own, though.
{CLAMP's artbooks are always so wonderful. ;D}

Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:37 pm

I have always wanted an artbook, but they are so expensive. For the price of an artbook, I could buy several manga.

I do love CLAMP's artwork, though. The Sailor Moon artbooks are beautiful as well. Maybe someday I'll put some $$ aside and grab a couple.

Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:07 pm

I nabbed the Gundam SEED atrbook and by golly it was a big disapointment! It had very few good artworks, and far too few Gundams.

Wed Sep 01, 2004 1:43 am

I own Der Mond by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. It includes his art for Evangelion (character design), and many of his other works. It is not recent enough to include his newest work though, which was character design for the .hack games.

Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:00 am

Hi Marissa. I'm coming over to steal your artbooks.

Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:47 am

i love artbooks but for the price of one, i can buy 5-10 manga, which is my top priority. recently, my brother is pretty caught up with collecting manga/anime figurines which is getting very popular in Asia

Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:30 pm

I've been trying to find the PitaTen and CLAMP artbooks, and I've finally found a place that can order them. I'm also going to try to get my hands on the Sailor Moon artbooks, and the Sailor Moon Materials Collection. ^_^

Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:13 pm

I saw a great artbook a week ago, but it was too expensive and it wouldn't have fit in my small shoulder bag anyway

I'm going to ask it for Christmas (or Sinterklaas, but you guys don't know what that is

)

Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:17 pm

I want an Artbook... I think my cousin got the Disgaea one for $12 in a grab bag. Lucky her... Either that or she tricked the guy with the price...

Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:31 pm

CLAMP work is awesome. Sadly, I have none.

Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:30 am

Disgaea artbook for 12$ ? :green with jealousy:
I have the Art of Magic Knight Rayearth 2 and I rather like it. My boyfriend has a Card Captor Sakura one which is very cute and which we found very cheap in france. For some reaosn it was on sale in all the shops o.O He also has the Niea under 7 art book. They're rather expensive to collect, but they're so pretty to look at. They also let me think about the world and characters of that anime/game some more. Oh and I think we got a Magical Project S one and a Seiken Densetsu 3 (but maybe that was a game guide, not an artbook per se). In any case I'll be buying more as soon as I can afford to. Which won't be particularly soon...

Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:20 pm

I love CLAMP, and artbooks, but they don't sell them where I live, and I'm just not willing to pay shipping and handling right now.

I might make an exception for "Your Eyes Only" though.

Website · Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:43 pm

I have the Full metal alchemist art book downloaded, and sadly that's all I have. None in solid, tangible form

Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:02 pm

There's a Fullmetal Alchemist artbook?!?! Ahhhhh I have to find + download that one straight away! *loooooves FMA*

I only have one artbook. It's "The Renga Portfolio." I picked it up at Borders, even though I had no idea who the artist was, because 1) the art is really cute, 2) it was the only one in the series that didn't have fanservice on every page, and 3) it's my parents' money anyway (bwahaha!!)... I'd like to buy more, but very few of the ones I like have been translated into English or become available in the US. And I don't want to pay a ton to order them from Japan.