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Product DescriptionHighway Star is a Japanese-language volume in OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS, collecting 12 short manga created by Katsuhiro Otomo in 1976 and 1977, when he was 22 and 23 years old. The works are arranged in order ...
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Product DescriptionNonohara Artworks: A Diary of Visits to Interesting Buildings is a Japanese-language illustration collection by illustrator and indie game developer Nonohara. This first book presents fantasy landscapes with ...
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Product DescriptionCLAMP Exhibition Official Art Book COLOR KURO is a Japanese-language art book connected to the CLAMP Exhibition held at the National Art Center, Tokyo from July to September 2024. It focuses on the exhibition...
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Product DescriptionTokyo Time Slip 1984-2021 is a Japanese-language photography book comparing views of Tokyo across time. The book began with the discovery of a large quantity of negative film showing lively Tokyo scenes from ...
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Product DescriptionContemporary Creative Kimono: Hanatsuki Works is a Japanese-language illustration collection from the KITORA line. It gathers the contemporary creative kimono series by illustrator Hanatsuki, a series describ...
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Product DescriptionThe Spirit Continent and the Engraved Witch is a Japanese-language story-format illustration collection by illustrator Sakizo. It is described as an adventure fantasy told through beautiful watercolor art, an...
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Product DescriptionReal Action Pose Collection 06: Falling, Floating, and Gravity Action is a Japanese-language action pose reference book. This sixth volume in the quick-shot action pose series focuses on moments released from...
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Product DescriptionEdo Fashion Illustrated Book is a Japanese-language practical illustration reference for artists interested in Edo-period clothing. It updates the styling seen in ukiyo-e prints with modern illustrations, mak...
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Product DescriptionKamiwaza Sakuga: Movement and Emotional Expression is a Japanese-language illustration instruction book from the KITORA line. It focuses on expressing a character’s emotions through the whole body, with guida...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language drawing guide focused on character and figure drawing techniques taught from an animator’s perspective. It is the “people” volume in a mini notebook series, bringing together figur...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language book about nostalgic vending machines, especially retro food vending machines that are now close to disappearing. It covers machines for udon, soba, ramen, hamburgers, toast sandwi...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language art book and the first collection by the illustrator tamimoon. The description presents a world of delicate, fleeting women who express identity through fashion, atmosphere, and pe...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language picture book about a year in the life of nekomata, cat-like yokai whose customs resemble human traditions but differ in playful ways. The story follows a family of quintuplet nekom...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language art book collecting illustrations by wacca, an illustrator noted in the description for attention on social media. The 160-page collection covers work from the early period of acti...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language book on background painting, built around examples from actual anime backgrounds. Background artist Osamu Masuyama, associated in the description with works such as Made in Abyss, ...
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Product DescriptionKedarake is a Japanese-language art book by Miroco Machiko, described as the first self-selected collection by the painter and picture-book creator. The book brings together images of living creatures rendere...
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Product DescriptionHow to Draw Attractive Backgrounds is a Japanese-language technique book for CLIP STUDIO PAINT PRO and EX. It explains professional approaches to background illustration, focusing on questions such as layer s...
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Product DescriptionAsian Illustration is a Japanese-language and English bilingual creators file presenting illustrators active across Asia. The book focuses on the growing presence of Asian creators in comic art, especially fr...
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Product DescriptionPYECUTS is a Japanese-language illustration collection and making book by Soreyu. The book presents colorful, pop artwork with a retro mood, influenced by 1990s American comics, teen magazines, and cartoons. ...
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Product DescriptionvioLet is a Japanese-language art book by illustrator Hidari, known for character design and jacket illustrations for anime and games. This first art collection presents more than 150 illustrations personally...
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Product DescriptionKou Art Book: Aka is a Japanese-language commercial art collection by illustrator Kou, known for detailed linework, color use reminiscent of ukiyo-e, and mysterious motifs. The source description presents the...
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Product DescriptionIllustration Color Scheme Idea Book is a Japanese-language guide for finding color combinations that match the mood of an illustration. It is organized around eight categories, such as Natural and Pop, with f...
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Product DescriptionHow to Draw Human Parts is a Japanese-language illustration technique book from KawaiiSensei, an illustration creator group active since 2021. The book adapts popular recipe-style drawing lessons from social ...
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Product DescriptionMy Garland: Lingerie Inspires Me is a Japanese-language art book by Hiromi Matsuo themed around lingerie. The works are set in the fictional lingerie shop My Garland, with a concept centered on choosing linge...
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Product DescriptionREDTAIL: TERU ILLUSTRATION WORKS is a Japanese-language art book presenting the near-future science fiction world created by illustrator TERU. The setting begins in Tokyo in 2035, when a mysterious red pillar...
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Product DescriptionEffect Graphics: Motion, Flow, and Texture Representation Catalog is a Japanese-language illustration guide that explains visual effects in a clear, diagram-based format. It focuses on drawing phenomena that ...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language three-volume architectural collection covering the work of Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, their individual offices, and SANAA from 1987 to 2021. The set introduces their activities...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language photo reference book collecting relaxed and natural poses by three male and female models. It includes about 800 poses in total, divided into two types: poses with backgrounds that...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language picture book for young children from Kodansha’s toddler picture book line. The book features breads described with gentle sound and texture words, such as fluffy milk bread, soft b...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language craft book about darning stitch embroidery. Darning stitch fills areas by combining threads vertically and horizontally, as if weaving over fabric. Although it is known as a mendin...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language sewing book focused on authentic men’s clothing by pattern maker Toshio Kaneko. It presents 23 items that can be used to coordinate a complete outfit, including shirts, tailored ja...
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Product DescriptionBlue Archive Official Artworks 3 is a Japanese-language official art book for Blue Archive. This third volume looks back on the path of the game through valuable visual materials and collects artwork released...
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Product DescriptionBig Clothes, Small Clothes is a Japanese-language fashion and sewing book about enjoying different size impressions in clothing. The book begins from the idea that many people decide on a personal “right size...
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Product DescriptionMen's Shirt Making Book is a Japanese-language sewing and pattern book devoted to basic designs for men's shirts. It introduces 30 shirt projects, including variations made with different fabrics, while also ...
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Product DescriptionKawaiiSensei no Sugu Kakeru! Tsukaeru! Character Pose no Kakikata is a Japanese-language illustration technique book focused on drawing character poses. It gathers explanations and examples for artists who wa...
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Product DescriptionIllustration of Sento is a Japanese-language illustrated essay collection about public bathhouses. Created by an author who works as a bathhouse attendant at Kosugiyu, is also an illustrator, and has a backgr...
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Product DescriptionFantasy Color Scheme Idea Encyclopedia is a Japanese-language book of color ideas for building fantasy worlds and visual atmospheres. Based on keywords from stories, fairy tales, and literature from around th...
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Product DescriptionThis Japanese-language volume is the official catalogue for the first large-scale retrospective exhibition of Eiko Ishioka, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from November 2020 to February 14, 2021...
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Product DescriptionThis Japanese-language craft book explains how to make PEPAKO, paper puppets that can be moved by hand. By operating wire attached to the back, the puppets can wave, blink, move their mouths as if speaking, a...
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Product DescriptionThis Japanese-language art book collects sketches and drawings by Katsuya Terada, an artist described as someone who draws anything, on anything, whenever he finds himself drawing. The collection ranges from ...
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Product DescriptionThis Japanese-language drawing guide focuses on character “parts,” an essential element in appealing figure expression. It re-edits techniques from toshi’s previous books on animator-style character drawing, ...
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Product DescriptionThis is a Japanese-language picture book by junaida, creator of Michi and No. The story begins with something that looks like a castle from far away, but its roof has eyeballs, a furry hand appears from a win...
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Product DescriptionThis Japanese-language book is a nostalgic encyclopedia of company characters and symbols that have appeared in Japanese advertising, packaging, commercials, and daily life. It focuses on familiar mascots and...
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Product DescriptionONI no Subete: Tonko House to Daisuke Tsutsumi, Tabi no Tochuu is a Japanese-language official art book for the 3DCG animation ONI: Thunder God’s Tale, released in October 2022. Fully supervised by Tonko Hous...
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Product DescriptionSimple Everyday Wear is a Japanese-language sewing book featuring clothing from Atelier Rough atour. The designs are not overly elaborate and emphasize ease of movement and comfortable wear, making them suita...
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Product DescriptionNITEFLYTE is a Japanese-language art book centered on Hiroshi Nagai’s nightscape series. Nagai is a popular illustrator whose work has appeared in advertising, posters, and record and CD artwork, including th...
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Product DescriptionPattern Maker Toshio Kaneko’s Casual Men’s Clothes is a Japanese-language sewing and pattern book from pattern maker Toshio Kaneko. It is described as the third men’s clothing book by Kaneko and focuses on ca...
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Product DescriptionKaleido Scope Garden: Hiromi Matsuo Works is a Japanese-language collection by illustrator Hiromi Matsuo, known for depicting women in Japanese and Western clothing within retro and classical worlds. The volu...
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