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The Day I Bought A Star – Naohisa Inoue Picture Book Review
The Day I Bought A Star ( Hoshi o Katta Hi / 星をかった日 / 2006 ) is a children’s book written and illustrated by long time Ghibli collaborator/artist Naohisa Inoue (井上直久), who also worked with Hayao...
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Mobile Suit Gundam : The Origin Cover Illustrations – Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Art...
Despite having worked at Sunrise Animation Studios ( the homebase behind the Gundam IP ) for almost 2 years back in the day, I profess to knowing embarrassingly little about the Gundam franchise; I am...
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Deho Gallery – Anime Background Art Book Review
Founded on July 1st, 2015, Deho Gallery is a joint business venture by Japanese anime studios Dwango, Studio Khara and Studio Ponoc. The company’s mission statement is to preserve the art of...
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Katsuhiro Otomo “The Complete Works” Pre-orders Have Began
One of my most highly anticipated manga/art book releases of 2022 is Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo’s upcoming The Complete Works. First announced at the Anime Expo 2019, The Complete Works is a full...
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Kusanagi Studio Background Art Vol 2 ( Sci-Fi ) Book Review
Kusanagi ( 株式会社草薙 ) is a prolific animation background art studio located in the Nerima area of Tokyo. Founded in 1990, it has contributed background art work for a huge number of animation and video...
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2021 Art Books Review List ( 80 Total )
This is a complete listing of the art books that I have reviewed in the year 2021 ( 80 total ), in chronological order. Click on the image for the purchase link to Amazon, or “browse” through the book...
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My Favorite Art Books of 2021
2021 has been a big bumper crop of a year for art book reviews here at Halcyon Realms, with a total tally of 80 books reviewed; the highest number ever since I started doing this as a hobby way back...
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Capcom vs. Osamu Tezuka Characters Art Book Review
Originally held as a special exhibition at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takurazuka ( Hyogo prefecture ), the CAPCOM vs. Tezuka Osamu CHARACTERS exhibition was held again at the the Parco shopping...
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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko Art Book Review
I usually make it a point to review art/making of books for movies only after I have watched the films, because I like to have a good context of the material that I’m writing about. I’m making an...
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Akira Storyboards Vol 1 ( Otomo The Complete Works Edition ) Book Review
Together with Otomo’s highly acclaimed 1981 manga Domu, the storyboards (part 1) for the director’s magnum opus Akira animated film were the first two titles to be released under the Otomo The...
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Akira Storyboards Vol 2 ( Otomo The Complete Works Edition ) Book Review
Published as 2 separate volumes, the 2nd part of the storyboards for Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA is the 2nd batch of titles to be released under the new Otomo The Complete works collection ( see the...
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AKIRA – The Architecture of Neo Tokyo Exhibition
AKIRA – The Architecture of Neo Tokyo presents the original background artwork of the classic science-fiction animation in an unprecedented exhibition. Since its release in 1988 AKIRA was almost...
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DragonBall Super : Superhero Movie Trailer
The new Dragonball animated film titled Superhero has just been released in Japan, and the story continues as Goku has to once again take on a resurrected faction of the Red Ribbon army that he once...
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100 Movies of the 2010s Book Review
100 Movies Of The 2010s is a pick of the 100 most influential films made in the decade of the 2010s by author and art/cinema historian Jürgen Müller. Just like the previous books in the same series,...
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Ghost In The Shell Production Background, Cut No. 683
Back in May this year I wrote about the AKIRA – The Architecture of Neo Tokyo exhibition put up by the author of the book Anime Architecture ( read my review here ), Stefan Riekeles. The exhibition...
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Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water 4KR Blu-ray
Some pictures of the recently released Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water – The Complete Series blu-ray set produced by Japanese animation studio Gainax. I’ve always wanted to pick this series up on...
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Ghibli Park Ticket Sales Poster & CM
Ghibli Park (ジブリパーク) is a theme park in Aichi, Japan that will feature attractions based on several of the movies produced by Studio Ghibli, including Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s...
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Twelve Kingdoms Vol 2 – Yamada Akihiro Art Book Review
The Twelve Kingdoms ( Juni Kokuki – 十二国記 ) is a collection of illustration work by famed manga/concept artist Yamada Akihiro ( Lodoss War : Lady Of Pharis, RahXephon ) for the anime The Twelve...
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Inu-Oh Filmmaker’s Panel With Director Masaaki Yuasa
As a long time fan of Japanese animation director Masaaki Yuasa ( with works like Mind Game, Devilman Crybaby and Eizouken ), I’ve been looking forward to watching his latest animation film Inu-Oh...
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Ghibli Park Opening
After what seems like a very long wait since the announcement of it’s conception way back in 2017, the Ghibli Park was finally opened officially earlier this month on the 1st of November. Just like...
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