The first art book from up-and-coming illustrator Yoshioka invites you into the world of fantasy stories.Yoshioka's wonderful illustrations of plants, animals, nature and other motifs remind the audience of storybook worlds as they take them on a journey into a sometimes happy, and sometimes dark world of fantasy. In addition to the illustrator's original works, this book also includes illustrations for the TV anime series "PSYCHO-PASS 3," CD jacket illustrations for Who-ya Extended, the musician of the theme song for TV anime series "Jujutsu Kaisen," and the variant cover of "Bloodborne" (Ales Kot/Titan Comics) and much more. A feature on the making of the cover illustration is also included, providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Yoshioka's process for creating narrative illustrations: from the artist's work environment to drawing rough sketches, to drawing, painting, and finishing. Delve deeper into the fantasy world of stories that Yoshioka creates with this unique illustration collection.

Daydream is the long-awaited collection from the unstoppable illustrator, UKUMO uitiUKUMO uiti (pronounced Wukumo Wu Ichi), is well known in the Japanese illustration community. Daydream brings together selected illustrations from the artist's 3 Doujinshi collections, "Dreaming Girls", "The Summer Gate," and "CEH[A/W]," which sold out immediately. Featuring an additional 20 new and original illustrations, this book showcases about 170 illustrations in total. UKUMO creates background illustrations, fantasy art, and illustrations of girls, and has beeen featured in PIE International's Background Illustration series.Fans of Senbon Umimshima, Yogisya, and nekosuke will surely fall in love with UKUMO's illustrations. The book is divided into themed chapters according to the four seasons and events in each one (e.g. New Year's Day, Valentine's Day). Readers can travel through UKUMO's dreamy world while enjoying Japan's four seasons at the same time.

Welcome to the dreamlike pastel-colored world created by Meyoco. Discover all with Polaris, her first commercial work collection. Meyoco is an illustrator based in Southeast Asia who has gained popularity mainly on social media. Natural elements such as flowers, waves, leaves, stars, and bubbles are suddenly infused with a cute and lovely quality when Meyoco colors them in pastels. Meyoco’s wonderfully dreamlike illustrations have won her an increasing number of fans of her social media accounts; as of April 2020, the number of her followers has exceeded 1.22 million on Instagram and 270K on Twitter. This book contains about 240 illustrations that have been carefully chosen from those she has presented in her social media account. It also includes artworks that have been newly drawn for this book, along with some watercolor paintings from Meyoco’s early published collections: doujinshi, “Foliage”, “REVERIE” and “Bodies of Water”. Meyoco also explains the concept of her artworks in her own words. These cute characters and motifs drawn in lovely colors are sure to appeal to people all over the world.

Retro but modern. This is the new trend, the new way, the new form of illustration created by the new generation. “New retro”, a combination of the word “New” and “Retrospective”, is a newly coined phrase meaning “appreciating and enjoying something old while reimagining it into something modern.” This book introduces 40 up-and-coming illustrators working in this “new retro” style. Through the 300 illustrations showcased in this one book, readers can appreciate and enjoy retro culture, items and motifs reimagined and transformed into something new. Retro culture, along with items such as 80s/90s fashion, neon lights, old Japanese anime/movies, and retro items like cassette tapes and Polaroid cameras, are now being reappraised by younger generations, who did not experience them in real time. The “New Retro” artistic movement, which began as a new and cool subculture before sparking a trend that took off in Japan in the late 2000s, has now become an established genre among illustrators and continues to influence and attract many creators in the industry with its magical appeal. This “New Retro” wave in the art, music and fashion industries in Japan brings a somewhat retro but also modern and trendy feel to popular culture. This collection gathers together the most notable New Retro artists and their works to give readers the most up-to-date, cutting-edge collection of this unique style, and will surely be an important reference book for those who want to appreciate and enjoy the essence of these updated and reimagined retro motifs.

The ultimate illustration collection of Haruhiko Mikimoto, one of the greatest character designers in Japanese animation, now available in an updated English edition! Haruhiko Mikimoto is a Japanese illustrator, manga artist, and character designer who has led the Japanese animation industry for more than 35 years. He has participated in the creation of a number of masterfull animation works that have gone down in the history of Japanese animation, and has created numerous unique and beautiful characters that have become an indispensable element in each animation. His work is not only historically valuable, but it also influences young animators who are active in the modern anime industry, along with those who aspire to be part of it. This book offers a thorough introduction to the process of creating various masterpiece characters from "KABANERI OF THE IRON FORTRESS" to "Mobile Suit GUNDAM: 0080 War in the Pocket", "Gunbuster", and "Mobile Suit GUNDAM Hathaway." Handwritten comments by Haruhiko Mikimoto are featured next to some character images, which help the readers to know more details of the character designing process. In addition to original character drawings, this book also contains rough sketches of character designs, character illustrations, and original cell illustrations of animation masterpieces that Haruhiko Mikimoto has contributed. Until now, this book was only available in Japan. Now it has been revised and updated, making it available for all the Haruhiko Mikimoto fans in the world. Why not discover the origins of Haruhiko Mikimoto’s imagination yourself?

Cool and stylish, an illustrated fashion guide. A brand new way to find your own best looks. Fashion illustration is a new genre in the Japanese illustration scene, offering the most up-to-date, modern and practical styles for everyday. This book introduces 40 up-and-coming illustrators from Japan who are becoming popular on social media, including DaisukeRichard the author of "Kikanetsu" (9784756251046) published in June 2019. Filled with loads of cool, stylish coordinates and color patterns, this guide offers a whole new way for discovering new trends in fashion. Find your own outfit of the day!

Samurai warriors and heroes illustrated by the greatest ukiyo-e masters. This book full of great samurai warriors and heroes in Ukiyo-e masterpieces. It showcases various samurai warriors and heroes, including the Genji and Heike clans (hereditary clan names bestowed by the emperors of the Heian period), samurai warriors of the Sengoku period (a century-long period of political upheaval and warlordism in Japan), the swordsman and poet Miyamoto Musashi, Eight Dog Warriors from the novel The Eight Dog Chronicles written in the Edo period, Jiraiya (the toad-riding Ninja character from Japanese folklore), Forty-seven Ronin, the Chinese hero Guan-Yu, and more. All the illustrations are by legendary ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi. Vigorous and powerful characters illustrated in vibrant and dynamic compositions are simply overwhelming and stunningly beautiful. If you love samurai and ukiyo-e, this follow-up to the bestselling book, Something Wicked from Japan, is for you. This is also the perfect reference book for tattoo artists.

The first collection of Makura Kurama's art.The world of Makura Kurama is full of darkness and beauty. The owners, guests, neighbors, and other characters that appear in the antique shop suffer from grief, fear, or pain in their minds. The gothic-style costumes and motifs, such as skeletons, dolls, corpses, taxidermy, natural specimens, and of course love, lends a dark, fantastical atmosphere to the stories. But these stories never become incurable tragedies.Makura Kurama's refined brushwork and the sense of hope, of finding light in the darkness, always bring a redemptive element to the stories.This book is the first art collection of Makura Kurama's work and includes short stories, comics, and illustrations. Even those who know Makura Kurama's work will be fascinated by these stories, which are never as despairing and painful as they first seem as they end in happiness. Why not ring the bell of a peculiar antique shop and see for yourself?

Following the worldwide success of Momentary, we are proud to present this second illustration artwork collection from Ilya Kuvshinov. This book collects over 300 new artworks that the artist posted on social media, which were created after Momentary was published. This collection book also includes some of Ilya’s commercial works adding extra variety to this second book. After the success of Momentary, Ilya has gained popularity and has had some exhibitions and created commercial works. One of the most prestigious jobs Ilya was offered was as the character and visual designer for the anime The Wonderland, directed by Keiichi Hara; Crayon Shin-chan series and Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. This talented illustrator, who was influenced by many Japanese artists, now has 1.y million followers on Instagram, and is established as an influencer of other illustrators around the world. Because Momentary was solely focused on collecting artwork presented on Ilya’s social media, the book was in a square format. But this time, we have produced this book in a larger format to include some of Ilya’s commercial works adding extra value and quality into this book.

The long-awaited complete reference book of Persona 5: the Animation. Persona 5: the Animation is an anime television series produced by CloverWorks, a Japanese animation studio and a rebrand of A1 Pictures, renowned for making popular amine series such as Fairy Tail, The Promised Neverland, and Darling in the Franxx. the Animation is based on an internationally acclaimed role-playing video game Persona 5 which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and a combined 9 million copies across all series. This is a complete collection of material, giving fans detailed behind-the-scenes look at the developing artworks such as character profiles, props profiles, background designs and visual illustrations (including never-before-seen illustrations). The materials consists not only works from Persona 5: the Animation but also from the special episode Dark Sun , which was broadcasted in December 2018 and Stars and Ours, which was broadcasted in March 2019. Also includes an exclusive interview with the director Masashi Ishihama. Not only fans of Persona series (both anime and games), animators and illustrators but also people who are interested in knowing what kind of materials are used to make anime and how the processes are developing will be intrigued by this book.

Breathtakingly beautiful boys' love illustrations.yoco is an illustrator who is active mainly in the BL (boys' love) genre and who is particularly known for her exquisite, painterly illustration style. Her dramatic compositions evoke pure scenes of longing, while also fulfilling a slightly voyeuristic desire to take a peek inside a beautiful, ephemeral world of pure and delicate boys and young men, rendered in pale colors and fine lines, but also with a hint of melancholy and shadow. The Art of yoco For Eternity and a Second is the long-awaited first collection of the artist's illustrations and paintings that have appeared in many BL novels, along with newly drawn illustrations.

Keiichi Hara meets Ilya Kuvshinov in the most anticipated anime film of the year. "The Wonderland" is a Japanese anime film based on a novel written in 1981. Direct by Keiichi Hara, the award-winning director who is most notable for directing the blockbuster Crayon Shin-chan anime series. The visual design, including character design, was done by Ilya Kuvshinov, the illustrator of the bestselling title "Momentary: The Art of Ilya Kuvshinov" (9784756248756) and "ETERNAL: Ilya Kuvshinov Illustrated Works" whose popularity is skyrocketing worldwide with 1.7 million followers on Instagram (as of January 2020). This book is the definitive design material book collecting character profiles, rough sketches, and all sorts of sample designs such as background, buildings, animals, machines and props, giving you a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the visual development artworks of this animation. This is the only official reference book available and will be appreciated not just by Anime/Manga fans but also by people who want to learn the process of how animations are made.

The ultimate must-have material book. We are proud to present this definitive art book of B the Beginning, a Japanese animation series produced by Production I.G and directed by Kazuto Nakazawa. Production I.G. is most notable for creating an Anime series like Ghost in the Shell and Psycho-Path. B the Beginning was Nakazawa’s first full-length animation series and season one started on March 2018 on Netflix. This dream collaboration between Production I.G., Kazuto Nakazawa and Netflix was a big success and both Production I.G and Kazuto Nakazawa became hugely famous and established their brand internationally. This success boosted Production I.G. and Kazuto Nakazawa’s popularity among international market and gained hardcore fans worldwide. This book collects rare, never-before-seen production materials from B the Beginning, the first season, such as character model sheets, story boards, still images, rough background illustrations, and layout drawings, all of which will sure to be treasure trove for hardcore fans. The text is translated into English but the original Japanese handwriting (instructions) remain on the layout and story board.