Artbooks

Here at The Otaku's Study I love niche and unique ideas, and one of the recent Kickstarter campaigns that hit my inbox really surprised me because I never really thought of it as being a major hobby - even...

Artbook localizer / publisher Udon Entertainment have announced that the first in a series of books based around Type-Moon's Fate series, Fate/Complete Material Volume 1: Art Material, is now available at book stores and digital retailers in the international market. Fate/Complete...

While 'Daisuke Moriyama' may not necessarily be a name you would easily recognize on sight, many manga and anime fans from the early 2000's should be able to recall his work as the writer and illustrator of Chrono Crusade. For...

CCP Games have announced that they will once again be teaming up with Dark Horse Comics to work on a series of new comic and book projects. Two of these announced titles are EVE: Valkyrie and EVE Universe: The Art of New...

Udon Entertainment have today sent out a notice confirming that four new artbooks based on four major Japanese franchises / artists are now officially released and available for immediate purchase. I currently have my hands on all four, and...

While its latest anime outing "Rozen Maiden: Zurückspulen" by Studio Deen showed some potential given how it is closely tied into Peach-Pit's manga series, the two previous seasons of the Rozen Maiden anime adaptations from Nomad are in my...

It has been quite a few years since we first saw Hyperdimension Neptunia and its sequel Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 hit store shelves, with the series having moved on to idol-sim games and enhanced PlayStation Vita adaptations. However Udon Entertainment...

Following an (almost) sold out limited edition run of the design compendium, CCP Games and Dark Horse have issued a joint statement confirming that their hardcover edition of EVE: Source is now available for purchase via selected comic book retailers...

With some shared concepts between both games, 2.5D visuals and an overall visual novel style of delivering dialogue... you might not be expecting much to come out of the series' official artbook. I was too until the opportunity arose for me to pick up this monstrosity of a design compendium which comes in at a whopping 512 pages (A fact they happy boast on the book's obi). It has been a while since I have been so excited to receive a video game artbook.... and to date it remains one of the best books in my collection.

Acttil, a publishing / public relations company founded by former Nippon Ichi Software America employees have today announced that they have published a series of three Japanese folktake e-books on the iOS App Store today. These three...