Title Shikisai Ohkoku Color Kingdom Artist Varied Copyright 1997 Content 120 pages in total; 104 in colour; Softcover Extras 16 pages of “Colour In” art pieces Cover Price ¥1500 ISBN 4-568-50195-4 Rate Average Purchase 19/07/03 | JPQUEEN.COM | US$11.50 Comments After seeing how good number three was, I went and purchased this one as well; and again I am not dissapointed. This was a book published by Comickers containing “How Tos” and interviews with some of Japan’s top artists today. This issue includes Yamada Akihiro, Matsuda Kouji, Ohse Kohime,...

Title Shikisai Ohkoku Color Kingdom 2 Artist Varied Copyright 1998 Content 125 pages in total; 106 in colour; Softcover Extras 19 pages of “Colour In” art pieces Cover Price ¥1500 ISBN 4-568-50200-4 Rate Average Purchase 19/07/03 | JPQUEEN.COM | US$11.50 Comments After seeing how good number three was, I went and purchased this one as well; and again I am not dissapointed. This was a book published by Comickers containing “How Tos” and interviews with some of Japan’s top artists today. This issue includes Inomata Mutsumi, Kaneko Kazuma, Suemi Jun,...

Title Shikisai Ohkoku Color Kingdom 3 Artist Varied Copyright 1999 Content 137 pages in total; 120 in colour; Softcover Extras 17 pages of “Colour In” art pieces Cover Price ¥1500 ISBN 4-568-50209-8 Rate Average Purchase Date Unknown | ANIMEBOOKS.COM | Price Unknown Comments The reason why I purchased this (it was the first of the Shikisai Ohkoku Color Kingdom books that I bought) was because of the 8 pages of information, on one of my favourite artists Aoi Nanase. It turned out to be pleasing in all aspects. This was a book published by Comickers containing...

Title OPPO with Humming Artist Mizushima Tohru Copyright 1997 Content 94 pages in total in full colour; Softcover Extras Double fold out poster Cover Price ¥2200 ISBN 4-05-105885-9 Rate Good Purchase 11/10/02 | JPQUEEN.COM | US$15.50 Comments Not too sure what to say about this one; I saw the cover and liked the cover art ^_^; From what I’ve learned online the book contains illustrations from the artists work ‘Koibito wa Shugorei’ as well as sketches & character designs for other stories. What I can say is, the artwork is stunning. Shoujo at it’s...

Title Magic Knights Rayearth Materials Collection Artist CLAMP Copyright 1996 Content 142 pages in total; 72 pages worth of character sketches in colour; 4 pages of interview with CLAMP; 24 pages of gag MKR manga and the rest black & white storyboards & sketches; Softcover Extras None Cover Price ¥1850 ISBN 4-06-319688-7 Rate Good Purchase 05/07/03 | JPQUEEN.COM | US$12.90 Comments I was a bit dubious purchasing this book as I could hardly find any information on it. It turned out to be a risk well worth making. This book has nothing but character sketches of the MKR cast...