Books, magazines

The Art of Tales from Earthsea shows the production sketches, character design considerations, beautiful watercolour artwork and layouts of Goro Miyazaki's first full-feature film. The book is in Japanese with English chapter titles.

This collection contains eight artbooks for the short films, which are displayed exclusively at the Ghibli Museum cinema. To watch these films, you will have to perform the pilgrimage to the Ghibli Museum itself.

The first illustration collection featuring various pictures that appeared in the manga "Hidamari Sketch" by Ume Aoki.

TV Animation D.Gray-man Official Visual Collection: Clown Art' contains two posters, 44 pages of full color images and a few pages of sketches from the animation staff relating to the OP & ED sequences and character design works. Also included are interviews with the four main seiyū (Kobayashi Sanae, Sakurai Takahiro, Itou Shizuka & Suzumura Kenichi) and autographs of members of the cast.

Trinity Blood Illustration – Fabrica Theologiae | 215.3 MB

Features 240-page of character and background setting with illustrations and comments!

This Collection of "Shinning Wind" Visual Material is designed and illustrated by award winning artist Tony. The book contains exceptional artwork that will leave you breathless page after page.

Official artbook of Mawaru Penguindrum featuring storyboard sketches, key animations, line arts, character concepts, environmental background designs, and interviews with the staff and Ikuhara Kunihiko, the original creator of the series.

Gainax's first "groundwork" book for "Gurren Lagann" is devoted to the series' first eight episodes with black-and-white reproductions of many of their layout drawings, animators' drawings, and timing sheets. Includes 16 color pages of animators' drawings and illustrations for magazines. Softcover with dust jacket; text is in Japanese.