Tony Taka Art Book Shining World

From the renowned Japanese artist Tony Taka, featuring his stunning artwork from SEGA's Shining Tears and Shining Wind games.  200 pages of gorgeous, full-page pin-ups and character designs from the game series, plus interviews with the master himself.

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Shigenori Soejima Artworks 2004 - 2010

Best know in the West for his work as the art director and character designer for the games Persona 3 and  Persona 4

This 160 page artbook features Shigenori Soejima's best work from the various Persona games, including other projects such as Stella Deus and Momoiro Taisen Pairon, and includes a rare and exclusive interview with the artist himself.

8.3 x 0.6 x 11.8 inches Paperback released 2010, 160-pages long, with a total of 87 illustrations

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Masamune Shirow "Pieces" Artbooks

images from "Pieces 1: Premium Gallery"

Masamune Shirow is an internationally renowned manga artist, author and artist of the cyberpunk cult-classic Ghost in the Shell. A substantial amount of Shirow's work has been released in art book or poster book format.

No exception then is "Pieces" a series of eight artbook collections starting in 2009 with "Pieces 1 - Premium Gallery".

"Pieces 1 - Premium Gallery" is a mixture of art from his previous Intron Depot artbooks, calendars, and even some images from Dominion Tank Police and Jashin Hunter. The hardcover artbook contains some decidedly adult themes and though the book is in Japanese, the collection is predomniately artwork across it's 88pages.