Artbooks

Last year I began importing a couple of Japanese artbooks to compliment my introducing a new "book" focus onto The Otaku's Study. I tried to go for a variety of different types of books ranging from those based on anime and video games, to those based on visual novels. One of those books I picked up a couple of months back was the Yotsunoha Art Collection, based on adult visual novel "Yotsunoha" released in Japan back in 2006 by Haikuo Soft and later ported over to the PlayStation 2.

International artbook publisher Udon Entertainment have just released Dark Souls: Design Works, which like their Persona design compendiums aims to not only provide a plentiful supply of artwork but contributes an insight into the design process of the game. Does it provide enough to warrant the $39.99 USD price tag? Read this review to find out!

Kicking off their announcements for 2014, the international artbook publisher Udon Entertainment have announced their plans to release a series of English localized artbooks surrounding Type-Moon's Fate/Stay Night visual novel series beginning from June 2014. These releases will begin with Fate/Complete Material...

I am always out to look for something new to add to The Otaku's Study, and last year saw me begin to review English localized artbooks that you can easily pick off the shelf in specialty stores kudos of...

Today has been another big year for Udon Entertainment, with a number of artbook releases made throughout the year for a variety of different anime and video game franchises - in addition to their commitment to a variety of...

Artbook publisher Udon Entertainment have announced via their official company blog, updated release plans for titles between this month (November 2013) and March 2014 - comprised of books representing each video games, anime and manga. Some of these are...

Udon Entertainment, a publisher of English localized artbooks and manga have announced the availability of Persona 4 Arena: Official Design Works which based on 2012 Playstation 3 title Persona 4 Arena, is a design compendium comparable to their earlier releases...

Kin'iro Mosaic, also known as Kinmoza! internationally is an anime series that recently finished airing in Japan and simulcasting internationally kudos of Sentai Filmworks. While I never watched past the first episode (Saving the rest of the series for...

For those in North America, Persona 4 Arena (Aka. Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena) on the Playstation 3 and Xbox360 may be a distant memory - with your attention potentially focused on what could very well be...

It was August 2003, and Udon Entertainment made their break into the manga / artbook market with their release of Street Fighter #0. This stemmed from the realization of Udon Entertainment founder Erik Ko's desire to pay tribute to...