While the decreasing value of the Australian Dollar has made it harder for me to acquire Japanese artbooks this year, I have still had the pleasure of checking out several of them. After introducing the award last year, which was won by Himitsu no Kin'iro Mosaic, I am happy to once again issue The Otaku's Study Japanese Artbook of the Year award again for 2014. As with last year, I am a bit more lenient on relea
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.